fetch and catch and anything to do with balls
exactly HOW do you teach a sheepie to play fetch? |
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| Woof will sometimes fetch, but after awilie he will just go running after the ball and then run back to me as if to say "You threw it, you get it!" |
Mikeyg wrote: Woof will sometimes fetch, but after awilie he will just go running after the ball and then run back to me as if to say "You threw it, you get it!"
exactly! truman will run up to the ball and look at it and bark like "mom! look! a ball!" and then away he runs. |
LOL.... 
I don't remember what I did with Shanti. As far as I recall, I took an advice from animal planet (you can go to the site): Ask him to leave the ball... in Spanish is "suelte". He learnt that way. If he wants me to pick the ball up I won't. If he wants to play he has to pick it up. So now he brings me the ball, put the muddy ball on my lap 
Also what I did was playing with him with other person throwing the ball so he tried to catch it.  |
| I think Max was born with the ball in his mouth. My problem is getting him to stop fetching.
Amy, maybe if we get the two of them together, Max could show Trumana, but be careful what you wish for!!!! |
hehe...truman was born with a plastic coat hanger in his mouth  |
| We started rolling the ball when Abbi was 8 weeks old. She loved to chase it. When she got big enough to grab it in her mouth, I would make her sit and then throw it. She ran and picked it up. Started running with it in a huge circles, getting closer to us all the time. I had to train the kids not to run after her. Then I would make her sit and then throw it again. When nobody chased her, she would run over with the ball, I would have her sit, tell her how great she was, then take the ball out of her mouth. She loves to do this with her squeaky toys even more!
4 years later, she runs after the ball, picks it up or catches in the air, runs around with it, then comes, spits it out at my feet and sits. If my husband is throwing the whole process is even faster, but he still grabs the ball out of her mouth -- which she seems to love? I try to make her stay until I say go get it, but so far I just yell "go get it!" before she takes off. She doesn't bring it directly back after the second or third time. I have to wait her out. She will for my husband -- but he wrestles with her and she likes the rough housing -- I don't. We now have her getting her leash off the chair. We started with fetching it and saying Go Get The Leash! Now all we have to do is say LEASH and she goes looking for it. She loves her walks and has been known to go get the leash and shove it in your face on occasion. And she usually gets walked too. I guess we all love the idea that she understands. |
Daffy also loves to play fetch with any kind of ball, or anything resembling a ball. The Jolly Ball w/ a rope seems to be her favorite, and the only ball she can't destroy  |
| hahahhaaaa...
It seems that all of them have similar habits. Pisco loves to play with his balls (he has 4!!) He would have one in his mouth and play with his paws with the others. throughs the one he has in his mouth and picks one of the floor.....if any of them gets under the sofa...he would come to me and take me there...lies down on the floor and looks at me .....
there are 4 magic words for him: correa (leash), vamos (let`s go), galleta (cookie) and pelota (ball).... If i say go get your leash he will go to the front door (where i hang his leash) and sits ...but if I say "vamos" he will ran around the house until i say leash....LOL
Vero. |
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