Training the Retrieve

Training the Retrieve: There are three useful canine courier behaviors; Delivery, Transfer and Retrieve. Article & Photography By Deborah Lee Miller-Riley.

A New Look at Training the Retrieve

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There are three useful canine courier behaviors; Delivery, Transfer and Retrieve.  A Delivery requires the dog to take an article from the handler and release it at a designated target (person, place or thing). A remote Transfer requires the dog begin at, or travel to, a designated target, take a specific article and release it at a second target.

The Retrieve, requires the dog to travel to a designated article, take, carry and release the article into the handler’s hand. The Retrieve of a telephone from a tabletop to a disabled handler bears the same elements as the dog who is sent from a boat to shore to return with a strayed paddle…(PURCHASE A COPY OF THE JULY/AUGUST ISSUE  TO READ MORE) Click Here