- Location
- East Sussex
I took this video of Rajah on Monday. I recalled him when he was sniffing and I want to make it clear that when he came to me I not only gave him several treats but then released him to go back to sniff again (and he had been wandering freely for about 20 minutes at this point). I would never recall him from something interesting in order to put him on the lead. The reason I practise recalling him from distractions is so that I get an automatic response that I need when we compete in Rally. However later on the same day I had reason to be extremely glad that I had proofed Molly's recall. I took her to the river and we walked along the bank where there is a footpath next to a field but there were no livestock at all so she was off lead. We'd just got almost back to the road when suddenly from nowhere a single sheep with 2 lambs appeared. Molly jumped towards them, I called her and she immediately turned away from the sheep and came to me (and of course I put her on the lead). My heart was beating rather quickly! (I think the sheep must have escaped from another field and someone must have herded them off the road -just a small lane- into this one, as they definitely weren't there when we went in.)
Rajah at Butcher's Hole
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