What To Do If Your Dog Won't Fetch

Now you may have a few problems when you’re training your dog to fetch.

It isn’t always easy to teach this to your dog, so you may have a few problems at first.

Let’s look at some of the problems you may have:

If your dog doesn’t want to fetch the object, make the game more interesting for him by using a squeaky toy and running with your dog on his leash to where you have thrown the object.

If your dog runs up to the object but then doesn’t know what you want him to do, he hasn’t learnt to hold properly...

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Go back to the “Hold Object” lessons and maybe use a more interesting toy when you give him these lessons too.

A common problem is when a dog picks up the object, but drops it on the way back to you. To cure this, you simply need to spend more time training him to “Hold”.

If your dog picks up the object but doesn’t respond to your command to come, go back to training him the “Come” command and spend more time on it.

We hope this will help you out if you are having difficulties with teaching your dog to fetch. Although it isn’t always easy to teach this command, it’s one you can have great fun with.