Keep practising in a place with no distractions until your dog is desperate to play the game. Because you are continuing to prevent other chasing your dog’s chase drive will be high, but focussed on the new game. Predictive Command – The Best Recall Ever In a framing device which shows the grown-up Amba working in the gig economy in today’s Leicester, Bhattacharyya makes connections between work in the garment industry in developing countries and work in Britain today. She underlines the injustice of both situations, where workers are in an impoverished and precarious state, and argues that collective action is the only response. As Amba says, “We can work it out together. It’s not up to me – it’s up to us.” This is typical of the warm-hearted nature of the play, which is both inspiring and acutely relevant. It makes a great and welcome change to the usually cynical view of political action in contemporary British theatre. When you say she doesn’t play what you mean is that she doesn’t play on your terms – she is playing on her terms with wild (and farm) animals. Don’t just throw a ball and expect her to know what to do, or even be interested – she hasn’t been taught how much fun it is yet. You need to stimulate her into playing with you. My ‘Stop!’ book will give you ideas on how to interest her in toys, but be inventive. For example start with a ball with a squirrel-tail attached (you’ll need two), or use a flirt-pole. It’s a long hard road to getting her off-lead again, but it should also be great fun. I will try your technique & see if I can make his toy pheasant more enticing…he’s never chased anything ‘dead’ before now, other than a rawhide bone on the odd occasion!! Maybe I should stuff the toy pheasant with some rawhide? (-;

the stimulus is probably either “living things” that he doesn’t know intimately or “running living things”. Having read your article I am going to give your advise a try. She is being restricted to lead only walks. I now realise that she needs to fulfill her chase desire and will introduce a toy indoors and proceed from there. I take him to the beach everyday where he can run freely, he loves to chase the waves but never gets too close as he hates water.Chasing Hares is a love letter to this movement, to the power of ordinary people working together, collectively, to the power of storytelling to affect change." It’s true that some dogs need the stimulation of a running animal, and that familiar ones may be less attractive to chase too. I’m afraid you’re trying to run before you can walk. You can’t give your new 3 year old terrier free rein in your big garden and expect her to behave. Even after ten weeks you will have little value for her and she won’t recognise you as someone to be considered as worthy of taking advice from. It’s little wonder she ignores you and does what she wants.

You and your dog have incompatible requirements. You want to go for a run and your dog to come with you. Your dog, like most dogs, finds just running for long distances very boring and is going off doing what he enjoys, which is hunting. Hunting is great fun and he can do it without any input from you. You therefore become surplus to requirements, so he doesn’t listen to you.I have been told to be hard on him and to use an electric collar – I have no intention of doing either. (Read our advice on the best gundog training kit.) What’s the matter? The only way you can keep him with you is to be more interesting than hunting. It is a common misconception that dogs enjoy “walks” or “runs”. They don’t enjoy the activity of walking or running, they enjoy the activities they get up to on walks or runs. If you don’t provide something enjoyable for your dog on your runs, he will find his own fun, which currently appears to be hunting by himself.