Strange experience & Question
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I started training with one and they all seem to enjoy doing it after they watched for a while….some more than others. The Af's just seen the others doing it and caught on quick.
It's something I do with mine in the winter to give them exercise. We had snow and then ice the last couple of days. I won't let them out to run on that frozen surface......it's too slippy and dangerous. So when they have to be indoors to play......retriving is a good thing.Ours don't like to retrive things after they hit the ground outside ......too dirty?????? I don't know why, but they run up to it, look at it and walk away.
I agree…some seem to have more interest (aptitude?) than others. I think it would be difficult to train a B who had no interest in retrieving to do it. Of our six adults, two of them really seem to enjoy retrieving, until they are done with it! The others wouldn't dream of it :)
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My boy B will retrieve inside only. Our living area is on the upstairs of our house I will often throw things over the rail, down the steps and he will run down the steps and bring it back. Sometimes he like to chew on it awhile before he brings it back though. Tried to get him to retrieve outside. NOPE not interested.
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My boy B will retrieve inside only. Our living area is on the upstairs of our house I will often throw things over the rail, down the steps and he will run down the steps and bring it back. Sometimes he like to chew on it awhile before he brings it back though. Tried to get him to retrieve outside. NOPE not interested.
I don't know if it's because they're that clean they know it may have passed over something dirty???? If there's snow on the ground, they'll retrive…..dry grass.......run up to it........look at it........but that's it.
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Mia fetches, Nike not so much, if he does it's to go get it and bring it somehwere where he can chew it lol. But Mia does play with a little football we have, sometimes we have to go get it from her, but most of the time she'll bring it back, although she does get bored after 6-8 throws :)
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@Mia:
Mia fetches, Nike not so much, if he does it's to go get it and bring it somehwere where he can chew it lol. But Mia does play with a little football we have, sometimes we have to go get it from her, but most of the time she'll bring it back, although she does get bored after 6-8 throws :)
Well when we have the pups meet maybe seeing Mia fetch will rub off on Dallas! :p
Mark said his dogs growing up always learned because they had an older dog who would retrieve & the pup would chase the older dog to play & just by association thus learned to retrieve. I wonder when I take him to the dogpark if he'll chase the other dogs who are going after the slingballs people had?? We're determined to get him to play fetch! Haha.
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When I first got Sahara I read that Basenjis do NOT fetch, I was like oh yea, well we will see. I started teaching Sahara and she caught on fast. We play everyday in the house for excerise, she will go after it, and jump up on the recliner(where I am sitting) and jump back down to wait for me to throw it again, and again. But once she is tired of it, that's the end!!!!! She will even put it in my hand if I am not paying attention to her, sometimes she scratches at my hand if I am on the computer, I look down on the carpet and there sits her ball, or stuffed squirrel. Smart Furbaby, haha!!!!
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Yea, I've had b's that will retrieve inside, but this was outside on a dirt agility field. I don't have many tennis balls around (they're bad for teeth) and she's never shown interest in the malinois's soccer ball. She just does retrieve the blue bird (designated agility-only toy), but I worked really hard to cultivate that. My brindlewonderkid will retrieve a dumbell inside, but tends to do a little of the bone-dance thing with it. I clicker trained him to do that. It was just a "let's see what we can do with a clicker" type thing. But Z picked this ball up all on her own and brought it to me. It's not fuzzy, nor does it squeek, so I was really surprised she continued to retrieve it. She acted like it was a real prize and was so proud of herself. Of course I will try to cultivate this. But if it doesn't work out, oh well, like Camelot, we had one brief shining moment.
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Shaye will not usually bring things back outside, but inside, whatever we throw she brings back, so we'll keep throwing it - I don't think this is actually retrieval, it's her making us play so she can chase the toys and rev up for the Basenji-500 which eventually happens when she gets excited enough about chasing the toys and bringing them back to be thrown again.
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Yep, Ive got a retreiver too :)…
Saba will retreive in the house, both tennis balls and his stuffed toys, (well, they were stuffed till he destuffed them, then lost all interest in them ;)). He will only do it for a little while though...
Ochre, on the other hand, will look at the thrown object, then look up at me with a "Well you threw it, you retreive it look...". Precious little miss she is:D
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This is really the one thing that Jaycee is good at she will go after her ball a toy anything and play and play. Jaycee seems to have set her bedtime at night at about 9:00 to 9:30. So my son will play throwing her ball or toy what ever she wants getting her really tried before she goes to bed every night. Sometimes she good for 15 mins other times half hour but she has fun. I hope she don't stop this is fun.
