| Re: what makes a dog stop working?
Have you ruled out any type of injury?
When we were heavily training and trialing Keil, he decided one day he no longer wanted to work. He pretty much stopped heeling or if he did heel it was sloppy, he had no attention, and this dog who absolutely LOVED jumping started refusing any and all jumps.
We thought maybe he was being overworked so gave him a little break. When we started back up again he was still refusing jumps, so we took him to the vet where we discovered he had injured his back. He took 6 weeks off then we slowly started working him again and he has been fine ever since 
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Carol
Akasha, CDX, SchHA, BH, OBI, AD, RE, TDI, TC, CGC
Keil, CDX, BH, RE, AD, TDI, TC, CGC
*Kaleb* Esmonds Shoot To Thrill, RA, CGC
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