Hi, I have a 7 month old collie x golden retriever with what we believe may also be some spaniel (not fully sure as the breeder wasn’t honest) she has been pretty good with recall since I had her and started training it at around 3 months old. Recently her recall is slipping she gets high value meaty treats when she does come back to me but I’m finding she isn’t recalling well at the moment. Just this evening my friend left with her dog and my dog ran after her and somehow escaped through the gate and was running in the road. I tried calling her name and using the ‘here’ command I have always used and she just continued to run into the road with traffic.
I’m aware I panicked and did also start shouting as I realised there were cars coming from both directions and she was not listening and continued to run around and I know that my reaction would have made that situation worse.
However my question is how can I get back some recall with her and more importantly how can I do so around distractions and in dangerous situations where she has escaped (she’s always on a lead on walks near roads) and how can I change my behaviour in situations like tonight’s to keep her safe.
Whenever we are out I always carry basic treats and also high value meaty treats to try and make it more enticing for her to listen I’m just not sure what my next steps should be as I know she’s hitting adolescence and also showing signs of her first season (vets have confirmed this) and when out on walks we do use a whistle although she also is selective of when she listens to the whistle
Thankyou and I hope it’s okay to post I did have a look on the wiki page however the distraction recall page says it was deleted.
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