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Permalink Reply by Heather and Ella on July 21, 2009 at 4:12pm

And of course Jack is not a dog, he is a corgi. I've learned there is a big difference in the two.

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Permalink Reply by Bev Levy on July 20, 2009 at 9:35pm

They don't all fetch. Sparty lives for it and no one had to teach him! He taught my grandson at 9 months old how to push the ball ahead when he was crawling. Sparty would race after the ball and return it. He learned "drop it" very quickly since it would then get thrown again. Buffy never even looked when you threw it. She figured, if you did not want it then neither did she. Izzy will chase it happily and usually comes right back (without the ball) and looks to see if you want to do it again. Sparty also thinks throwing the ball to him is a great activity. The others will get hit on the nose 9 times out of 10! He catches it with great enthusiasm!

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Permalink Reply by Violet on July 21, 2009 at 11:41am

Violet doesn't fetch either. She'll run after the ball and chews on it. Steals it from our other dog but she rarely brings it back to us. When she gets the ball we try to get her to come to us and she usually drops the ball wherever she is and comes to us. She has seen our other dog fetch many times and can't seem to understand the full game. Oh well, we love her anyway.

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer & Matt on July 21, 2009 at 1:41pm

I've spent a fair share of time being the fetcher instead of the fetchee with lots of dogs! The upside is at least everyone's getting plenty of exercise. :) Puppies especially take a while to get used to how it's supposed to go. I've heard that having a 2 of the same toy can entice them to come back to you with the first one, since the one they invariably want is the one that you've got to throw! And of course nummy treats can also have a similar effect. If she wants to be chased and you chase her, you're just giving her what she wants, so ignore her and act supremely interested in the toy/treat you have.

Just keep at it and use the same words/commands/phrases over and over again with lots of positive reinforcement when she does something she's supposed to and don't give her the attention she wants if she's doing something you don't want her to do and she'll catch on. :)

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Permalink Reply by Heather and Ella on July 21, 2009 at 4:09pm

Ella is not a fetcher, she is a catcher. She will go after her ball and then put it where she wants it. For her we have to play "Ella in the Middle", and not traditional fetch. Usually we have to have two or three tennis balls going at a time, and she still keeps up. Also wall-ball is a good none fetch game. She just loves to fly after tennis balls, but don't expect her to hand them back to you.

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Permalink Reply by Garrett, Katie, & Conan on July 29, 2009 at 11:34pm

It's good to know Conan isn't the only corgi who doesn't fetch! He will run after anything you throw, but once it stops moving he loses interest and walks in a completely different direction. Sometimes he'll go get the ball/toy/whatever, but will only carry it about 1/4 of the way back before he drops it. Then he'll come back with nothing. I need to get him into herding because he loves to herd and chase anything that moves and I think that's why he has no interest in the ball after it's stopped moving away from him.

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Permalink Reply by Derek on July 30, 2009 at 10:10am

My dog doesn't play fetch, she plays Can't Touch This. She gets the ball, walks up to me and then puts on a strut as if she is saying, "Ya, I got it and you don't". She does this a few times before she lets me have the ball again. It is sort of funny to watch, she likes to parade around showing off her ball or teddy bear. Either that or she wants me to chase her so she can heard the furniture. no Ottoman is safe from her amazing K9 abilities! LOL.
She will learn ,especially if she is playing with a dog that already knows how. Find a Lab in your neighborhood or the local dog park, and he ill pick it up fast.

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Permalink Reply by Shippo & Koga Corgis on July 30, 2009 at 12:21pm

Shippo would grab the toy and run as a puppy, so I just played lots of fetch with my other dog while he watched. He learned from my other dog what to do and I didn't have to teach him anything except "drop it" lol.

Shippo recently taught a friend's puppy how to fetch in the same way he learned it... she just watched him out in the yard repeatedly.

I think we've got something here... maybe find an older dog who does fetch and expose your puppy to them?

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Permalink Reply by Yogi and Abby on July 30, 2009 at 12:42pm

My corgis are more into chase...Abby fetches once in a blue moon, but yogi doesn't at all. He'd lay low on the grass until abby or any of us are closer to him, then he starts running mad chasing us, or asking us to chase him....We tried so many times to get him to play fetch, but he'd take the ball, walk away, and start biting the ball...if it's a tennis ball, he'd try to get the green hair out of the tennis ball.

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Permalink Reply by David on July 30, 2009 at 1:00pm

A lot of dogs do not fetch. Yoda does not quite get it yet. I used to have a huskie and chow mix. He simply refuses to and act as if it is beneath him!

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