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Originally Posted by spidey IMHO, you should ALWAYS praise a recall. If your dog's recall isn't solid, the way to manage this is to keep the dog on a leash. The fastest way to lose a recall is to not reward it. NEVER punish a dog for coming to you, and NEVER fail to reward a recall, no matter how leisurely it is. |
With my handler soft dog, not rewarding or worse yet, punishing a recall would be the end of our progress for a very, very long time, if not forever.
I still keep her on a very long line when we're in a park or field so I can "reel" her in if she gets overcome by something more interesting than me and even then, I'm praising the whole time she's coming towards me with a treat at the end.