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If your dog LOVES sniffing in the grass above all else, then sprinkle some food in the long grass when he comes back to you, and help him look for it
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AH ha ! Good point. My dog does love sniffing the grass. Infact my main issue is getting her to exercise. She wont chase balls or any kind of toy, she'd much rather stay put and bury her face in a pile of grass. Poor girl, she was most upset when the council came along and cut the field. However, i still find it hard to understand why she likes this. I mean, she's never found any treats on the field, whenever she does find something to eat (poop) she gets told off....so i dont get whats so rewarding. Anyway, good idea in sprinkling treats in the grass. Maybe after a while she will view the whistle not as a recall command but as me alerting her that i have found a patch of grass that needs some attention.
[quote] Are there any treats or special food he CAN manage? [quote]
Yea, well James Wellbeloved treats lol. Im gutted to be honest that she has turned out to be allergic to beef or wheat. It means all raw feeding has stopped and as i am not the legal owner of Daisy, i dont really get a say in what she eats, just a suggestion. Owner says that if she eats these biscuits and doesnt vomit, then she should stay on these biscuits
Thing is, these treats are not that different to the kibble and she seems to have super-human reasoning skills does our Daisy. Ill train her inside, in the garden or in a school basketball court and she'll backflip for a single kibble biscuit. But take her to a field and its like she is thinking "Well, i could give up this patch of grass to go do what owner wants and recieve kibble / treat OR i could ignore them totally, do what i want, and get fed when i get home and get treats when im trained at home.
Im thinking good things will come of this "help her find treats in the grass thing though". Never thought of that and Daisy will literally give up ANYTHING for a chance to be left alone with a patch of grass.......strange.
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Does she like playing tug with toys? If she's playing tug with your person, presumably she does LOL!
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Well i dont know. Its hard to tell, mainly i feel cos i am a dog noob. I dont know if she tugs cos she enjoys it or tugs cos shes annoyed you took the toy away. She wont waltz up to you with her rope and wait for you to start pulling. Its just if shes happily un-knotting it on the floor and you try and come along an pikey it for a spot of fetch, THEN the tug begins. Or if you throw it in some hard to reach place that involved moving objects then climbing on them to reach it, she'll get the rope, begin to come to you, then stop and do a little victory dance (which is the single most cutest thing i have EVER seen btw) and then come lay next to you. But try and take it off her to throw again and shes like "No, no way am i going through that again just to get this back, you are NOT having it."
Thanks for the advice. Much appreciated !