[miccmill]

This weekend we started working on recall on a 20ft. long lead. 20ft. is really not that far away and Hannah starts looking back for us before she's at the end but eventually she got interested in things along the perimiter of the park we were in so we could call her back while she was distracted.

She turns and comes back as soon as we say "Hannah come" in our happy voices but she trots back in an arc, kind of out to one side, not straight back, sometimes landing in a sit off to the right but mostly in front. We didn't correct this as we thought she was doing great just coming to us and we never had to reel her in.

As we continue on, how do we straighten out her approach? Bait her into a front? Reel her into a heel position?

We're a ways away from the next level of class that teaches this so we're just doing new things now to keep her interested.

Oh, the first thing she did in this open field, 20ft. down the line was sniff and turn her head/neck down into something to roll in. "YOOHOO, I'm here and what are you doing?"