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Fully understand- and I have a very 'biddable' dog indeed and find the process super frustrating at times.
I'm trying to learn to laugh at the failures/ frustrations currently. Not always succeeding, but trying.
@ak we've gone through so many iterations of fetch- its unbelievable how hard it is to cement the concept, and I have a fucking "retreiver"!
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Thank you all. Had a bit of a wobble earlier.
We've never lost her before but I'm pretty terrified of it. I think memories of losing the dogs for literally hours in woods in rural Northumberland has put the fear into me: that + roads = dead dog.
Time with other dogs is something we're keen to do but at the moment she gets so worked up at a dog even on the other side of the road that I think it would be good to make progress on her reactivity before trying it.
Will try those games and look up others - she's a bright & attentive dog so they should be good. Especially keen to try hand/touch.
Grateful for this thread as a place to land in and just shout 'aaaaaaarrrrrgh this is hard'. Thanks for understanding.