Does your Gr. Pyr retrieve?

[GYPSY JAZMINE]

I'd read somewhere in my research that if your Pyr shows any retrieving interest at all to encourage it because normally they don't do this...Samson will play fetch with me when he feels like it & bring the ball or toy back for me to throw again...He's not overly enthusiastic about it but he does it for awhile...Pippi n doesn't seem to understand the game at all...Does anyone elses Pyr fetch?

[Kiahpyr]

Fetch? What's that? I try to get Kiah to fetch, but she just looks at me all confused.

[DixieSugarBear]

"You throw, you get it " Sugar Bear
"You throw it, I get it, it's mine" Dixie Darlin

[tanimara]

Warrior does Chelle.  A lesson I guess he forgot to teach his son...lol

And for others reading this... it is rare that a Pyr will do that.  It's a silly game and they are too serious to be silly...lol

Jackie

[GYPSY JAZMINE]

Warrior does Chelle.  A lesson I guess he forgot to teach his son...lol

And for others reading this... it is rare that a Pyr will do that.  It's a silly game and they are too serious to be silly...lol

Jackie

That's interesting... You send Warrior here now to teach his son!...I promise to send him back...hehe!...I am surprised that Samson does it because he usually is pretty solemn & serious...Pipp in really is more playful...I think maybe Samson thinks he is keeping me entertained with my stupid human games or maybe he thinks it a neat trick that he can get me to keep throwing it if he brings it back!

[Rocky's 'Rents]

Rocky will do it in the living room so it's only a few feet. I think his stepbrother (Max the cairn terrier) taught him because he is very compentative w/ him.

[cincbcat]

I know Pyr's are not Labs, but last night Sadie went about 10 rounds with the tennis ball in the backyard.  I thought my husband (the Lab lover) was gonna fall over.  But alas, she gave up!  It was an interesting site though!
Rachel

[Moni]

It's a silly game and they are too serious to be silly...lol

Jackie

Mojo is not a pyr, so I hope that I'm not butting in.  However, when he was younger I was worried that I'd never teach him to fetch.  Since he really seemed thought it was too beneath him to participate in.  I swear his expression said the same thing as that quote!  I was forever fretting, because its required in competition obedience.   

Finally I tried clicker training!  Yahoo, it worked and we both saved face.  lol  Now Mojo thinks that fetching is "working" and not just a silly game.    It took baby steps, but now he'll pick up just about anything I ask him too. 

This is the order I taught the steps, if anyone's interested.  I never moved on to the next one until he fully understood the one that we were working on.  We started with "front" & "touch" and moved on to "hold", "drop", "pickup", "take it", "go" and finally "get it".

[Lendy]

SnowFlake has taken to retrieveing her little bear (stuffed animal)  We make a game of it.  Tug and war.  Then I throw it and tell her to fetch.  She brings it back so we can play.  Very smart,  I have not had to retrieve it tt much myself.