Hi All,
Just joined up so this is my first post, hope you can help us.
I have a male 6 year old staffy and a 18 month old female staffy x springer spaniel (a spaffy
.
My little girl is adorable but, she will not recall when she see's a deer, cat, dog, rabbit, person, bird, horse or anything that breathes.
We have trained her to recall with a dog whistle and treats and when she isn't distracted she comes back every time.
She has bundles of energy and we walk her for 90 mins average per day in the fields around our village.
On the walks she is on hyper alert all of the time, looking for anything to move to chase...when she see's another animal
she goes right after it and totally ignores the whistle, she is a proper little hunter....
The other day she startled a deer and went off after it, she ran through a hedge and was gone out of sight for at least 5 minutes.
I walked around blowing the whistle and calling for ages, I thought I had lost her and was very worried. Finally she came bolling back, big panting grin
on her chops as if to say didn't I do well...
I am getting worried she is going to get lost one of these times and really need some good advise... I cant really keep her on the lead
as she needs to drain her energy, even after an hours jog she is still full of beans...
Any ideas????
Look forward to hearing from you,
Thanks
Steve
Just joined up so this is my first post, hope you can help us.
I have a male 6 year old staffy and a 18 month old female staffy x springer spaniel (a spaffy
My little girl is adorable but, she will not recall when she see's a deer, cat, dog, rabbit, person, bird, horse or anything that breathes.
We have trained her to recall with a dog whistle and treats and when she isn't distracted she comes back every time.
She has bundles of energy and we walk her for 90 mins average per day in the fields around our village.
On the walks she is on hyper alert all of the time, looking for anything to move to chase...when she see's another animal
she goes right after it and totally ignores the whistle, she is a proper little hunter....
The other day she startled a deer and went off after it, she ran through a hedge and was gone out of sight for at least 5 minutes.
I walked around blowing the whistle and calling for ages, I thought I had lost her and was very worried. Finally she came bolling back, big panting grin
on her chops as if to say didn't I do well...
I am getting worried she is going to get lost one of these times and really need some good advise... I cant really keep her on the lead
as she needs to drain her energy, even after an hours jog she is still full of beans...
Any ideas????
Look forward to hearing from you,
Thanks
Steve