my current total infatuation with flyball makes me want to teach mushroom to play. he's seven. he's not ball-obsessed. he's got some dog-dog issues (though so does steve).
i've been working off and on with teaching him to fetch a ball. he now does. mostly. he does pretty well with restrained retrieves of a stopped (or "dead") ball. he's explosively fast going out for it, but then he tends to wag his whole self so thoroughly on the way back that he's slow. he'd never be a spectacular flyball dog, or even a very fast one, but he'd be a funny one.
mostly i want to train him just to see if he can, and to see if i could teach him when he's such a different dog from steve.
i've been working off and on with teaching him to fetch a ball. he now does. mostly. he does pretty well with restrained retrieves of a stopped (or "dead") ball. he's explosively fast going out for it, but then he tends to wag his whole self so thoroughly on the way back that he's slow. he'd never be a spectacular flyball dog, or even a very fast one, but he'd be a funny one.
mostly i want to train him just to see if he can, and to see if i could teach him when he's such a different dog from steve.