advice please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jmw 0]

i have a 9 month old greyhound/whippet who i have been using to retrive to the shotgun on rabbits.i tell her to stay then walk over to the rabbits shoot one then send her to get it but recently she has started running in as soon as the shot is fired instead of waiting to be sent!any advice please?also before she used to bring the rabbit to me if i called her after she had picked it up but now she runs about with it in her mouth playing with it.if i call her sweetly she ignores me and if i call her harshly she drops the rabbit then comes back!help please

[farlap 19]

i have a 9 month old greyhound/whippet who i have been using to retrive to the shotgun on rabbits.i tell her to stay then walk over to the rabbits shoot one then send her to get it but recently she has started running in as soon as the shot is fired instead of waiting to be sent!any advice please?also before she used to bring the rabbit to me if i called her after she had picked it up but now she runs about with it in her mouth playing with it.if i call her sweetly she ignores me and if i call her harshly she drops the rabbit then comes back!help please

i think maybe its all been a bit too much too quick....9 months is really still a baby. I think you need to go back to absolute basices....reinforcing the stay and if needs be preventing running in to shot, with a helper and a long line until shes more steady. Basically its re teach all the basic commands like sit, stay etc and when she retreives to you dont jusst remove the game.......let her have it a few moments and then maye give her something as a swap so she has incentive to bring it back. HTH.