What "looney" stuff do you do in the name of training. I've just spent the hour after a walk sitting on the drive with Dief with a coffee. Everyone time one of the neighbourhood cats goes past I call it's name "look at that" and give him a wave. The bloke over the road drives an ambulance. I think he smells a customer.

Apart from the usual heelwork and recall in the supermarket car park, I have spent many an hour sitting in the woods reading a book at prime rabbit time, hidden in ditches, rolled in the grass shrieking wildly, and stood still for up to 30 minutes at a time waiting for my dog to stop pulling. This dog training lark is not for the self conscious types.

ha ha ha

We play the 'sausage tree' game out on walks!

What's the sausage tree game? I wanna play the sausage tree game

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There`s the Lurking game - when you hide and your dog has to find you. Useful for sharpening recall but can be embarrassing when you`re spotted hiding in a bush in a Park.

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I do that too the look of terror on their faces and the relief when they find you!!

kneeling in the grass playing 'find the lost contact-lens' when there's none to be found...
that's a classic - & it often works. Aside from the occasional grass-stains on trousers, it's a good failsafe
for dogs who may go walkabout, or romp off with another dog & fail to return.


hiding for the dog to practice sniffing out a lost-person can be embarrassing - onlookers have a hard-time
believing adults who play hide-n-seek can be anything but escaped lunatics, or unemployed folks who've suffered
a nervous-breakdown, & are decompensating.


lying flat on my back to issue verbal-cues to an invisible dog is a goodie i need help for that -
a human-partner to tell me if the dog complies, & when. [it's just a test of the dog's understanding of X -
if i say 'Sara, flark!', does Sara have a clue what 'flark' is? If so, there may be some hesitance,
but no matter what orientation i'm in, or where she is relative to me, she should 'flark' ... eventually.]

We do this, we used it alot when teahcing recall to Millie. It ade her panic slightly to not be able to see us - and made her realise she needs to watch us. We hadnt tried it in a few months so yesterday my hubby threw her tennis ball around a corner (We had just walked round so knew noone was there!) so she ran out of sight - thn we legged it and hid in a bush!! Millie got her ball back then ran to find us - We could see where she dropped her ball where we were intially standing where she paniced and went into 'find owner' mode. She found us and got huge praise then we all went to find her ball for her. We got many a weird look sudenly dropping to the ground., hiding in crops / around corners! Glad im not the only one lol

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Isnt that look of terror quite nice in a weird way lol Only because we know they are ok This game is fantastic and has taught Millie to watch me.

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I think so! almost like they are smilling once they 'find' you!!