Very cute video! I loooove red border collies!
Let me be a bit of a kill joy though and just give out the warning I wish someone would have given me. Don't let that focus on other dogs fetching continue and be reinforced. I'm fighting a major uphill battle with my puppy focusing, stalking and obsessing about the movement of other dogs. I thought it was so cute and funny at first and I'm paying for it now.
WAY AHEAD OF YOU. For the first few weeks, I thought the same. He's been doing this for almost a month or two now... Then Frag laid him out over a tennis ball because he wouldn't get away. We've been working on it a TON and I can recall him from Frag 97% of the time when he fixates like this. He hasn't done it to any other dog yet, but I would hope that Frag means more to him than others and it will transfer over to some degree!
THANK you for the thought though... I almost didn't catch it soon enough.
eta; I also do that Sara... work on him waiting while I throw Frag's tennis ball and then throw a frisbee for him. If I had somewhere I could sit my phone to record I'd get a video of this too... I tried getting a video recalling him, but the sound was terrible because I was yelling into the phone and it was very shakey. haha.