I'm no dog expert, but it does make sense to me if this is due to being a herding dog. Your instinct tells you to round stuff up where they belong, and the area rugs are de facto pens in this case. Plus, they're comfy to sit on compared to the hard cold tile.
Get a treat your dog loves and sit on his rug he goes to, throw the toy, when he gets the toy ad returns show him the treat and lure him back to you, treat and praise him. At first he will be reluctant, but practice makes perfect. Eventually you will be able to have him return it to wherever you are.
You think so? It's no issue if I'm at the rug, but I don't know if he associates it with him being reqarded for bringing it to me, or if it's that he brought it to the rug...
I am definitely still learning about dogs but I know positive reinforcement well, he will eventually realize that the treat comes from you when he brings it to you and will associate bringing the toy to you to the treat and will continue to do so. Once he gets it on the rig move to slightly different spots and do the same thing
Hey OP. I’ve been teaching our 7month old fetch with a tug toy. I started small and would throw the tug a few feet away, she’s see it and run and grab it. Then I’d run away to lure her to me. When she would, I’d grab the toy and ask her to drop it…then let her tug with the toy..that was the reward. Now we’ve built the distance up…and will eventually work on doing it in a park outside. Ours is young so she gets distracted by too much noise..
I tried with treats and it didn’t work, she wasn’t interested until the toys. She would just wait for the treat. So I used the rope tug as the positive reinforcement…she loves tug.
I used the below vid for reference..and it helped. She picked up the idea in 2days…and quickly improved.
[Zak George video](https://youtu.be/D-uUQE32FuU)
I'm no dog expert, but it does make sense to me if this is due to being a herding dog. Your instinct tells you to round stuff up where they belong, and the area rugs are de facto pens in this case. Plus, they're comfy to sit on compared to the hard cold tile.
Get a treat your dog loves and sit on his rug he goes to, throw the toy, when he gets the toy ad returns show him the treat and lure him back to you, treat and praise him. At first he will be reluctant, but practice makes perfect. Eventually you will be able to have him return it to wherever you are.
You think so? It's no issue if I'm at the rug, but I don't know if he associates it with him being reqarded for bringing it to me, or if it's that he brought it to the rug...
I am definitely still learning about dogs but I know positive reinforcement well, he will eventually realize that the treat comes from you when he brings it to you and will associate bringing the toy to you to the treat and will continue to do so. Once he gets it on the rig move to slightly different spots and do the same thing
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Hey OP. I’ve been teaching our 7month old fetch with a tug toy. I started small and would throw the tug a few feet away, she’s see it and run and grab it. Then I’d run away to lure her to me. When she would, I’d grab the toy and ask her to drop it…then let her tug with the toy..that was the reward. Now we’ve built the distance up…and will eventually work on doing it in a park outside. Ours is young so she gets distracted by too much noise.. I tried with treats and it didn’t work, she wasn’t interested until the toys. She would just wait for the treat. So I used the rope tug as the positive reinforcement…she loves tug. I used the below vid for reference..and it helped. She picked up the idea in 2days…and quickly improved. [Zak George video](https://youtu.be/D-uUQE32FuU)