[nagdu] teaching retrieving without encouraging scavenging

[Becky Frankeberger]

All of a sudden my second dog started scavenging or destroying things. Someone told me to teach a retrieve and by golly he learned, didn't scavenge, and didn't destroy anything. We worked at it every day practicing. I dropped a pill at my boyfriend's home Baxter put his nose on it before the boyfriend's dog could get the pill, whew, close one. Jake simply doesn't want to retrieve and that's fine. I won't force a retrieve. I have tried several time over our eight year partnership but he will have nothing do with retrieve. Odder yet is his puppy raisers said he will retrieve sticks and bring them to you. So I was so excited to try again. Oh well, and I miss retrieve big time, especially now I can't hear where things fall, sy.

Becky and Jake 

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From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Vivianna via nagdu
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 4:25 PM
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Cc: Vivianna <irishana at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [nagdu] teaching retrieving without encouraging scavenging

If it were my dog, i would not encourage her to pick up anything from the ground.
most, if not all, schools quit teaching the fetch command long ago.  it’s my opinion that they did it to try and discourage scavenging and picking up unwanted items.

Vivianna

> On Jul 21, 2015, at 6:22 PM, Jenine Stanley via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> anielle,
> 
> You might want him to just point at things on the ground instead of automatically retrieving them. 
> 
> I’m working on this too with Roger and shoes. It’s going very slowly but then again, that’s fine.
> Jenine Stanley
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>> On Jul 21, 2015, at 6:34 PM, Danielle Cyclorama via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> 
>> Hi all,
>> I'm thinking about teaching my dog to retrieve objects I drop. He loves to retrieve and this seems like a useful skill. He already knows how to retrieve a few items by name, but I'm hoping to broaden this skill to include any object on the ground. However, I don't want him to think it is OK to pick up food I drop. I'm thinking I may teach him to retrieve on command rather then automatically if something falls. Any suggestions would be appreciated. 
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