Comments on: Dog Recall Training With The About Turn Walk

By: Nigel

Nigel — Sat, 17 May 2025 07:27:02 +0000

Loving all these tips wish I’d known about u earlier,my girl is now 3 but fortunatley i did a similar version off my own head with the about turn walks and recall
But not as good as yours
Thank you

By: Wayne

Wayne — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 21:34:32 +0000

I have been using this technique. Frequently I’ll hide behind a tree or other object when my Lab isn’t looking. In a short period of time she doesn’t see me and comes running looking for me. It introduces a bit of insecurity when I disappear. In a way, we make a game of it.,

By: Sammie@LabSiteHQ

Sammie@LabSiteHQ — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 21:45:57 +0000

In reply to Jerome Roberts.

Hi Jerome, glad to hear the biting is improving. Here’s a helpful link if you’d like a bit more help with it: https://www.thelabradorsite.com/how-to-stop-your-labrador-puppy-biting/ 🙂

By: Jerome Roberts

Jerome Roberts — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 02:42:00 +0000

Wow this sounds good we have a 4 month old puppy and we are starting to get things going , she is happy in her new home and loves to fetch things , I have seen this done , one big issue we are having is biting but she is getting better with the no biting command

By: Amanda Goodall

Amanda Goodall — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 10:23:13 +0000

Hi Pippa
We have two rescue dogs both different cross-breeds and just over a year old. We’ve had one 7 months the other 5. One of them has taught the other to run off though they always come back after a few minutes. Their training is going well except for recall in big open spaces. My question is can we do this with two dogs at the same time?

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 12:52:19 +0000

Wow, I’m amazed.
Today I took my 18 month cockerpoo for an about turn walk. Her recall had gotten worse and worse and my call had become worthless but I did not know this until I happened on https://www.thelabradorsite.com/dog-recall-the-about-turn-walk/. She is the first dog I have owned and although I did training with her as a puppy through lock down and then got in a dog trainer to help with recall, nothing had the effect I just experienced on our first about turn walk. My dog was watching me and coming to where I was walking, it was a joy to walk together without constantly calling to her. It is only day 1 but it was extremely positive. I have gone back to basics with Pippa’s training guide. I have just purchased her book too.
Thank you Pippa for clear instructions including what to do when my dog doesn’t respond.
I am very hopeful that my dog and I will form a new closer bond.

By: Ellie

Ellie — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 13:38:10 +0000

Just tried this for the first time with my challenging 6 month old Goldador pup and it worked at treat! Will definitely be seeing this training exercise through til the end!

By: Gosia

Gosia — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 14:24:20 +0000

Hi there. I tried this with my sprocker in the open field and initially she was good and would race back to us. Then she decided that self entertainment.. so going in a circle and sniffing something is more fun than following us.. help 🙁

By: Helen

Helen — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 13:11:41 +0000

Fantastic training idea, I’ve got to try it with my 19 month rescue lab/collie Archie. His recall is fairly good… till he sees another dog lol.
The trouble is, some other dog people around my area can be jerks. There’s a big field near my home where I run Archie which is renowned with other dog owners. Most accept the risks that come with off lead dogs, but some like to bring their reactive and even post op dogs and let them off lead there, then have a go at anyone whose dog comes over to them.
Unfortunately I had a nasty incident with a selfish woman who, upon my dog trying to play with her collies, screamed at me saying her dogs had just had operations and couldn’t be chased. She however decided that taking them to an open field, letting them both offlead at once and then throwing a ball for them was a smart idea. It didn’t help that one of her dogs decided she liked Archie and chased after him, ignoring her owners recall, and I spent two painful minutes trying to grab Archie while this awful woman was screaming at me to catch him. As if me trying to nab my dog, while her dog was in my face, wasn’t obvious enough to her. Even had the cheek to tell me my dog shouldn’t be off lead. Same to you, you nasty woman!
Needless to say, my confidence is shot. It’s been weeks since and I still feel awful. I used to let Archie offlead most of the time as he’s great with dogs and everyone elses dogs were the same, always coming over and greeting him, with varying levels of recall I might add, so it’s not just me. Now I’m stunting his development because everytime I see another offlead dog, I pull Archie away and keep him on lead. Course this feeds into him and my nervousness makes him excitable and bouncy, which makes my nervousness worse. I’m not good with conflict, years of bullying has messed me up good, so I tend to avoid it where possible. Getting Archie was a way of developing socially as it made me talk to people and it worked. I was so confident walking Archie all over my home town. Unfortunately, now I see every incident as a possible negative experience and even questioning all the previous incidences and whether I did the right thing. Loads of people’s little dogs come over and I’m supposed to accept that, but my big lab cross isn’t allowed because he’s big, black and a bit puppish.
Anyway, I’ll be trying this method. Arch runs me ragged sometimes because he acts like a puppy, but is 33kg of muscle and extremely clever. Brilliant dog, just needs a little bit more training.

By: Lindsay Pevny

Lindsay Pevny — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 22:37:50 +0000

This is great advice, dogs really do run further away when we chase after them, and they’re almost always faster than us. In some situations, my dogs have escaped and I have had to keep after them to make sure they weren’t about to get hit by a car, but I never try to catch them. They always come back!

I also do a lot of hide-and-seek and recall games to make sure they know that coming to me means a fun time!