Cricket never really got the hang of playing with people, I don't know if she was played with much before we got her but she never played tug, or with a ball. Poppy kind of played fetch, she would chase, bring it back to within a metre of you then if you tried to grab the object she would run off with it again. Lottie plays yayyouthrewtheballandnowihaveitandyoucantcatchmezoooooooom. Which pretty much is grab the ball and run circles around me for a few minutes, drop the ball, and as soon as someone looks at her, pick it up and run crazy circles again.

 

My girl doesn't fetch. Someone said "maybe she is thinking ' you threw it, you go get it'." Sounds like a Dobe intelligence, right? hehe

 

Nietzsche will retrieve until his legs fall off. Liberty follows him everywhere he goes, so she fetches vicariously through him.

 

Sometimes it's a game for him to play "keep-away" with it from me.

 

It's more keep away rather than fetch. Same with the Lab too! Go figure!

 

my dogs live for fetch. rah has to be physically stopped before he collapses.

 

x2. Even while sitting on the couch I still have to be throwing something to Dillon. It never ends...

 

Myt current one yes. I thought her breeder taught her to fetch and tug before I got her at 10 weeks. I had always assumed that until I asked a few months ago. She loves tug, toys, fetch, frisbee, you name it. Makes training very easy to find something ot reward with

My previous 2 kind of fetched occasionally. If I had the skills I have know to foster that drive more, I think they might have been ok at it.

I will say it is much easier to have a natural.

 

My cat Hughes will play fetch! He goes andg ets his toy, carries it 1/3-1/2 way back, drops it,a nd then sits at my feet and goes, "Well? Go get it and do it again! I brought it that far!"

 

Capri will go after a tennis ball and bring it back to within 15 feet or so--she doesn't run off with it when you go to get it--but you do have to put your foot on it to get it away from her. I believe she learned how to fetch from Kip.
Kip is obsessed with tennis balls. He used to drop it between your feet and act reasonably politely, but when Capri is around now he gets super possessive (she is fast with the take-away) and won't let anyone touch it.
His quirk is that he will claim one particular tennis ball as his, and that is the only one he will play with that session. If Capri grabs it, he follows her all over the place--she delights in playing keep-a-way.
The fun thing about Kip's quirk is that I could play all kinds of scent discrimination games (go find your ball in a stack of 15 tennis balls, or pick it out of the 10 balls scattered all over the field) and it looked like I had trained him NOT! He just wanted HIS ball back.

 

From Luci: "I do not fetch. I do not do "get it girl". I do not retrieve. If you wanted that toy You should not have thrown it. You want it, you have two good legs, you go get it."

From Me: Luci looks at me like I've suddenly lost my mind if I ever even Dare to throw something and request that she go get it. She will however chase me if I have something she deems to be rightfully hers.

 

I think fetch came came pretty easy to Vader. I don't even know how it started, but I would throw the ball, he would get it, and I would say "Come!". I think I started trying fetch at about 4-5 months when he had his basic commands down. That's about it. Yeah, sometimes, he tries to play keep away with it, but he does love a good game of fetch. My female Boxer will watch me throw the ball, and look up at me like, "You want me to do what?" My male Boxer who passed away from cancer about a year ago would play nonstop, even when he was 9! It's kind of like Doberkim said. If I didn't stop him from playing fetch, I think he would have passed out.

 

Same here. Ruby will fetch until she drops. Zelda is usally one pace behind.

 

If fetch involves "okay throw it throw it throw it"
You threw it... "Okay I'll chase"... "But now I will play keep away... Come get me human"

Then yes he fetches... he just doesn't return it all the time lol

 

My past dobe Daims had no interest in fetch or even balls for that matter, and after he "grew out of" puppy mentality (do they every truly lose that?? lol) he lost interest in his security blanket toy 'squeaky chop' (by 11 months of age he seemed to think that toys were too juvenile hehe).

Zil on the other hand loves his chew toys to bits! Literally! The ropes must be chewed in half and the ball bit shreaded to tiny pieces (and scattered all through the living room) then the knots on the now 2 pieces of rope have to be alternately shaken and chewed until they form a hard hairly ball like structure that can then be tossed in the air by either him or me. The game of toss/fetch itself only lasts about 4 or 5 throws before the knot has to be taken to bed and knawed on for another 10 minutes.

....and it's only ever dropped in my lap when it's suitably dripping with saliva to elicit the "eekseuuuurgh!" from me :lol2:

 

Blitz will run back and fourth playing fetch and it took a long line for him to come back to me but he mostly gets the concept of it now. He will go forever usually I am the one who ends up stopping it.

 

Duke returns the ball but he keeps it lol.
He comes back to me running like a deer to me and he's like "Ok, come try and get it now".

He can play forever tough, he loves it.

 

Dakota likes playing fetch, for a short time... She kinda looks at me like "Yea, right... Why am I going to go get my toy, I'm going to do all the work, bring it back like a good lil girl, and you're just going to throw it across the yard. Then I have to go chase it again, and bring it back so you can throw it. No thanks" lol.

 

Well, I have three Dobes and all three are different! Here's the breakdown:

Moe - he will retrieve perhaps two or three times and then he just wants to run off with whatever you've thrown and play with it!

D'Va - throw something, anything, and tell her to "take it", she looks at you like "you want me to do what? - oh, I don't do that, sorry!!"

Jordan - throw anything, she will retrieve until you take it from her and put it away, don't just throw it down on the floor, cause she'll just pick it up and start all over again. She's a natural retriever and has been since the day I got her at 10 weeks.

Jan

 

What Jan said -

Spock = Moe
Wheeler = D'Va
Fame = Jordan

 

Sofia will sit like the true diva she is and watch while I toss the ball.. and wonder why I'm throwing away a perfectly good ball..
" Fetch?? I have people"

 

I get 3 or 4 tosses before that... Dakota must be reading your posts and learning from Sofia!

 

keepaway, yes. Fetch, not so much.

 

my first dobe would go racing over tot he thrown object and proudly show me where it was and then wait for me to come over and get it for her (it was her favorite way to exercise me). my girl learned to play fetch by watching a bunch of labs at a play day. they wouldn't play with her but chased a ball. even at 5 months she was faster than they were so she got the ball and tried to get them to chase her. after a while they lost interest. eventually she figured out that bringing the ball back "restarted" the labs and the running game. she doesn't enjoy playing fetch by herself. my boy loves fetch and has ever since we rescued him at 1 1/2 years old

 

Navaho will get it and bring it back, but wont return it to me he runs past me and I have to take it from him.

We're working on the 'drop' and 'leave' though.

 

Thakoon fetches quite well when he and I are one on one. Not always a perfect retrieve, drop in front of my feet kind of thing; he usually runs back, lays down close, chomps a couple times before out/leave it and he goes again. I did not put much effort into teaching him the game. I'm pretty sure he learned from watching the dog that lived above us. Lab/Border Collie X... could be the ball-craziest mix out there.

If Bella (Doberman) is around, no fetch. Chase me/keep away only. Usually each dog attempts to convince the other that the toy they've picked up first is the "highest value" toy. It's amusing. If I pick up a toy, then that's the high value one. I usually set them up for a tug, and they'll stand-off for as long as 45 minutes. Bella doesn't fetch on her own. She'll chase a toy if she feels like it, but she won't retrieve.

Thakoon seems to enjoy having ME fetch things for HIM. I swear he purposely rolls or bounces his toys over the edge of the porch to the driveway below where he can't get them. He stares at them for a few seconds, then the whining begins. No other toy will suffice... he only wants the one that went over the edge, and he wants me to go get it for him. He did this as a puppy too; he would push, roll or bounce his toys until they were under furniture and then whine at me to get the toy back for him.

 

Getting there

 

Remy lives for me to come home and we can play fetch...
I use a" whip it "so that my arm doesn't end up in a sling.
We play with 2 balls-I whip one out-he brings it back and drops it in front of me and I whip the second ball and on and on and on...
I stop the game after a while since he will go until he drops..Great exercise....

 

hmm...well I hope when I get my dobe at the end of the month that he ends up being into fetch because that's one thing I'm really looking forward to doing with him.