Hi,
We had similar problems with our setter. I went to recall classes, where she proved to be top of the class, and I continued the training at home. She is very strong willed and used to choose when to come back or not whilst out on walks.

We trained her to 'down' so that we could approach her, and on the occasions that she would wait until we were 2 feet from her and then bugger off, we would give a quick shake of our training discs.

She is a very quick learner and is now pretty good at recall - we always make sure we have our discs though, just in case she has other ideas.

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