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We tend to walk our dogs in enclosed spaces (though our boy has had the op).
Once dogs go beyond threshold you'll find recall and response to commands just vanishes.
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Might not have been a female scent, but a fox or another animal. Is he a Lurcher?
Mine has taken off a few times for a scent, and when he saw a fox in plain sight and took after it.
Nothing that neutering would solve.
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Otto is 11 months old and we are planning to leave it as long as possible before having him neutered.
Today, he scared the shit out of me by getting a scent in his nose and running over 500m away tracking it. His recall is normally 100% and he is great off lead, normally staying within 50m of us but today nothing else existed apart from that smell. I just managed to catch him as he left the park and made towards the main road. EDIT: It was clear he wasn't playing games with me...I didn't exist as far as he was concerned.
I assume that he is coming to an age where he is starting to notice the laydeez.
Has anybody else experienced this? Neuter him now? Put this down as a one off, let him be off lead again straight away and wait longer before neutering him?