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Originally Posted by DobeSpell  I'm not a professional trainer but this worked for me. I throw him a ball, say Stop! and hold him. Then let him go.
After we practice it, I'd let him start chasing the ball and then say stop!.
He learned pretty fast.
Now I repeat the command whenever we play. I throw the ball, he starts running, I say Stop! Come!, he stops, come to me and then I let him go again.
This works when he chases cats too, and he has pretty strong prey drive. |
your dog is very very obedient!
I tried doing that, i.e. hold him by collar, throw ball, and only after a few seconds I release collar and say go!
but few times I tried by throwing ball, but not holding on to his collar and he just zooms off. he loves catch too much, and TOO strong prey drive
what I do is use the 'stay' command. for training I use it when he's in sit or down position then a stay command, and he will stay till I release him with 'ok'. but sometimes when out and I want him to 'freeze up', I just say 'stay' even when he's standing. he does it pretty well so far - on a leash, lol. don't trust him offleash doing that yet.