Does anyone's dog play fetch?
Any hints, ideas on playing fetch? |
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| I'll ship you Dazzle. She's obsessive. I think she would literally fetch till she dropped. Sybil likes to fetch too, but more in moderation. A lot of OES like to chase. Whether or not they actually pick up, or if they bring it back to you when they do <g>, varies a lot, but can be worked on. I'd work on getting Langley really excited about it since he at least shows some interest Some times, for some dogs, it comes down to WHAT you're throwing. Macy will, when the moon is right, tug on a cloth frisbee, but not fetch it. She may fetch certain balls, others don't exist. If I reward with food I can get a perfunctory fetch, and then they stand there and stare at me...If they like to TUG you have much more leverage. Sybil will fetch something providing I reward her by tugging with whatever she brings me at least part of the time. She started out so-so, but now clearly really likes the game. Mace is still on the fence. Kristine |
| my yellow Lab-Star- will play fetch ALL day. my chocolate Lab-Mocha- likes to play keep away my OES-Ryleigh- likes to just chase the labs.  and bark like crazy while she is doing it.  |
| Yes at home and in the garden, outside however he just looks at me "you get it! you threw it, I am not your slave" |
Archies Slave wrote: Yes at home and in the garden, outside however he just looks at me "you get it! you threw it, I am not your slave" Stands to reason. Privately, where no one can see him, no problem. Outside some one could see him doing your bidding  With tugging I always have to teach a dog to take the intensity they play with at home out into the world. For one thing, there are other interesting things going on around them they have to be alert to and, for another, since most of my tugging happens in training or at trials, it takes them a while to realize that they can tug and no other dogs are going to bother them. I think. A really intense dog probably isn't going to care - I don't think their mother ever did. But neither of them came "out of the box" with an obsessive need to tug (or fetch), so maybe that makes a difference. Kristine |
| Mark Georgi is the same. It must run in the family |
I got out the tug toy and that was exciting for a bit then they decide they wanted to play tug together without me  |
| I think it helps if they have a natural joy for the game. http://oesusa.com/Fetch.html  Here anyway, it's best to have just one dog out at a time when trying to teach them something. You might play tug a little, throw it a short distance and encourage them to bring it back. |
Langley was in flyball he love the tug. Usually Laika just lays back while we play. She loves agility but I don't have the yard for that. haha sometimes I go down to the park with my friend who has a golden and he toss the ball for him and my guys would chase him. That is the joy  I think like most sheepies they love chasing dogs. |
| Great videos I love the prancy walk too cute. Laika is a prancer Langley gallops haha |
| Griffin will fetch pretty much anything. Where he chooses to deposit it after he gets it is a different story. My second OES Puddin' ( my mom named her so don't blame me for that naming travesty) could rival any Jack Russell for her mid air frisbie catching abilities. |
| My mom's OES's play fetch. Lily plays fetch as long as no one else is playing fetch. If someone else is playing fetch it becomes a game of bark and herd the other dog. Lily's bro Jack is a fetch FANATIC!!!! That boy will fetch anything and everything til he drops!!! |
When first introduced to a ball Tiggy could not have given a rat's about them. And I really wanted her to chase something that was not hairy and warm blooded.  I could not get her intested in a tennis ball for love, money or treats so I decided there needed to be more than a visual stimulus. I bought a tennis ball sized ball that squeaked. THEN I made a complete and utter idiot of myself for two weeks straight. Every day, multiple times I got the squeaky ball out of the cupboard and ran around the house squeaking it, bouncing it, and jumping around like I was having the bestest, funnest time of my whole entire life AND totally refusing to let Tiggy get near it. I also chanted 'my ball, my ball' at her wavd it under her nose then snatched it away when she tried to sniff it.I would do this for only a few minutes each time but I did it often, then I put the ball away in the cupboard and went and sat down and was boring.  It only took a couple of days for Tiggy to decide that she wanted to check out this marvelous ball that squeaked  and caused me to have such a great time. The more the she tried to get it off me the sillier I behaved and the more I taunted her with it. After two weeks Tiggy was desperate to have the ball. It was obviously the ultimate prize as I was resource guarding it so much. She followed me around getting more and more excited and trying to snatch the ball off me any chance she got. SO after two weeks when she was really desperate for that ball I pretended to make a mistake and missed catching a bounce right in front of her nose. Tiggy pounced! She ran joyfully up and down the corridor with her prize and I chased her shouting 'my ball, my ball' and trying to get it off her. I had already taught her 'give' and I made sure I had a great treat to swap. And then I pretended to accidentally throw the ball a little ways away and lunged to get it back. Tiggy beat me to it and boy was she proud. She is great at give it back at home but often is not so great at giving it back at the park. I must admit that I slacked off on 'give' and exchange training outside of home though so she didn't really get a chance to generalise that behaviour. Tiggy is now somewhat obsessed with chasing squeaky balls. Be careful what you wish for!!! |
| Bailey loves fetch. But she's an aussie. Eevee is not so into fetch as she is into chasing the thing I threw, getting it, then laying down to chew on it. One of her favorite toys is a squeaky ball. |
| Chewie occasionally plays fetch. But if there are other dogs, he greatly prefers THEM to play fetch so he can herd them. His sister Martha (my daughter LeAnne's girl) loves to play fetch - she will fetch and fetch. Interestingly, our lab Biscuit has absolutely no desire to play fetch - if you throw something he just stands there and looks at it. |
| Pooh Bear loved to play catch. I had to have a couple of plastic balls with a specific squeak that he would love to catch. I couldn't get him to bring it back to me, though...just wanted to catch the balls. I've been working with Angus with fetching in the evenings for a short time because of the heat during the day. Need to have treats handy though. (I use Science Diet dental formula dry food as a treat) He will bring the frisbie back to me, but it's still a work in process. We will play "tug" after we are done. He gets excited when I grab the frisbie to go outside now. The "drop" or "give" seems to be hard for him to understand unless a treat is involved. One of these days he'll get it! |
6Girls wrote: I think it helps if they have a natural joy for the game. http://oesusa.com/Fetch.html Here anyway, it's best to have just one dog out at a time when trying to teach them something. You might play tug a little, throw it a short distance and encourage them to bring it back. Awesome video I just sat here laughing... Duke does the same thing when I throw a ball, if he decides to go after it at all. He usually looses interest if he can't find it right away though. Derek calls him Daria. He just lets the ball hit him in the face or looks the other way most of the time. |
Mim wrote: THEN I made a complete and utter idiot of myself for two weeks straight. Every day, multiple times I got the squeaky ball out of the cupboard and ran around the house squeaking it, bouncing it, and jumping around like I was having the bestest, funnest time of my whole entire life AND totally refusing to let Tiggy get near it. I also chanted 'my ball, my ball' at her wavd it under her nose then snatched it away when she tried to sniff it.I would do this for only a few minutes each time but I did it often, then I put the ball away in the cupboard and went and sat down and was boring. It only took a couple of days for Tiggy to decide that she wanted to check out this marvelous ball that squeaked and caused me to have such a great time. The more the she tried to get it off me the sillier I behaved and the more I taunted her with it. After two weeks Tiggy was desperate to have the ball. It was obviously the ultimate prize as I was resource guarding it so much. She followed me around getting more and more excited and trying to snatch the ball off me any chance she got. SO after two weeks when she was really desperate for that ball I pretended to make a mistake and missed catching a bounce right in front of her nose. Tiggy pounced! She ran joyfully up and down the corridor with her prize and I chased her shouting 'my ball, my ball' and trying to get it off her. I had already taught her 'give' and I made sure I had a great treat to swap. And then I pretended to accidentally throw the ball a little ways away and lunged to get it back. Tiggy beat me to it and boy was she proud. She is great at give it back at home but often is not so great at giving it back at the park. I must admit that I slacked off on 'give' and exchange training outside of home though so she didn't really get a chance to generalise that behaviour. Tiggy is now somewhat obsessed with chasing squeaky balls. Be careful what you wish for!!!Mim - you rock! That is exactly the way to do it. Now, sending you my girls so you can work on "give" for me, please  KB |
| Mady loves playing fetch, until she gets tired of it and stops (in which case I usually have to go and get the ball). |
| Ramsey loves fetch. If you are inside and not playing fetch with him, he will shove the squeaky toy, usually slobbery squeaky toy into your lap, or face! Layla my Labradoodle, half fetches, she will go get it, then drop it, or run some where's else with it and leave it there, so I'm fetching, that's her game, haha. I just blame it on her being only half retriever! Haha. |
have you tried a frisbee. Summer will play fetch with that forever. Sometimes she doesnt want you to take it from her though. We have tried to get her to carry them home, but she just wont. She drops it on the floor walks a few paces and then looks at you and then the frisbee as if to say "you carry it, it is all wet and slobbery!"  |
| Sprocket is as usless as our other 3 oes were at bringing back-he may do a couple of times and then looks as it to say "you threw it,you get it!".x |
| Bogey loves ton play fetch with a tennis ball but only inside. I have tried and tried outside. He will chase it and pick it up but then drops it. |
| Bloo loves playing fetch! I have a ball launcher that shoots really far It took me months to get him interested though, it took months of me throwing it bloo running after it, and me having to go fetch it, but now hes obsessed with the ball. If i go to the park now and let him off he will be jumping around looking for a ball, bloos mad on balls But if theres a dog on the field hes not interested in me, he just darts off! |
| Harry is 18 months old and is obsessed with playing fetch. He will fetch all day if you'd let him. He will forgo playing with other dogs to play fetch. |
| We got Winnie to fetch by including the game into two of her FAVORITE activities - training, and going for a ride in the golf cart. Every morning I go to our large deck with a pocket full of treats (that helps). I grab the ball. Winnie must sit or sit/stay or give me paw or go down or go down/stay in order for me to throw the ball. Then when she brings the ball back and drops it and sits (or anything else), she gets a treat and I throw the ball again. She'll do that for as long as I have treats! In the afternoon, hubby takes her for a ride in the golf cart. He stops and throws the ball for her. She brings it back and drops it. When she's finished, she goes back to the cart - with ball in mouth - for the trip home. The very HARDEST part was getting her to surrender the ball. But with treats as the potential reward she finally "caught on."  |
| moe loves playing fetch with my husband..he also plays outfield when kids play softball..in addition headores playing soccor..and will even play guard when they play basketball.if he were one of the kids..he would e applying for athletic scholarship.. |
| Guinness grew up with two labs!! He loves to fetch!! His hips limit his time in doing it but he loves the game Molly just grabs the ball and growls if anyone tries to take it !!! |
| I've had 12 OES over the years--none of them could fetch. Most would chase a ball once and then play keep-away. When I used to go to dog parks with my current two males and someone would try to play catch with their retriever, my two would run after the other dog, cut him off and herd him back--with no ball. No one got to play fetch when the sheepdogs were around. I don't think it was appreciated much by the other dog owners. We don't go to dog parks any more. |
| ralph will play till HE's tired.. he even will fetch his "big" sister Ellie Dubh who's a mini schnauzer, much to her dismay |
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