Hi! I saw your following comment on the flyball propaganda page
"I have a ball obsessed BC too. He loves a frisbee and has learned to love a tug, but the ball always has more value to him. He has a fast go out and runback. He skids past me on the runback, then spits the ball for the tug. He tugs well now because I've worked on it, but he will sometimes stop tugging early so that he can go line up. This is a clue to the motivation for his fast runback. He comes back fast because he's eager for the next run to the box and the ball. I stopped playing fetch only while we were working on teaching him to exchange the ball for the tug. It wasn't easy, but we persisted and he is now very reliable at the exchange. I play fetch or frisbee with him every day. It doesn't interfere with his flyball training now and it reinforces the motivation to come back fast for the next round."
I am training my first dog, bc, in flyball and he seems exactly like yours. Ball obsessed, but loves frisbee and tugging. But what I tink i'm seeing with him is a dog who likes the run better. He loves fetch and will spit the ball out right away just to be able to run again.
Anyway i'm writting to see if we could maybe talk i'd love to hear your process on getting him to exchange ball for tug and how stop playing fetch with him helped that [i'd hate to have to stop playing fetch, it's his best method of exercise, does frisbee count??]
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Hi! I saw your following comment on the flyball propaganda page
"I have a ball obsessed BC too. He loves a frisbee and has learned to love a tug, but the ball always has more value to him. He has a fast go out and runback. He skids past me on the runback, then spits the ball for the tug. He tugs well now because I've worked on it, but he will sometimes stop tugging early so that he can go line up. This is a clue to the motivation for his fast runback. He comes back fast because he's eager for the next run to the box and the ball. I stopped playing fetch only while we were working on teaching him to exchange the ball for the tug. It wasn't easy, but we persisted and he is now very reliable at the exchange. I play fetch or frisbee with him every day. It doesn't interfere with his flyball training now and it reinforces the motivation to come back fast for the next round."
I am training my first dog, bc, in flyball and he seems exactly like yours. Ball obsessed, but loves frisbee and tugging. But what I tink i'm seeing with him is a dog who likes the run better. He loves fetch and will spit the ball out right away just to be able to run again.
Anyway i'm writting to see if we could maybe talk i'd love to hear your process on getting him to exchange ball for tug and how stop playing fetch with him helped that [i'd hate to have to stop playing fetch, it's his best method of exercise, does frisbee count??]
Anyway thanks for any reply!
Chantal [And Jude]
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