FOM - Lainee wrote:Bob,
FF has absolutely nothing to do with taking and holding a line.
Lainee, Flash and Bullet
Hi Bob
There are a range of opinions on this. Check out Robert Milner's website:
http://www.fetchpup.com
He has some interesting ideas in the section on Force Fetching, eg
"Force Fetch as Foundation for Field Trial Lining
Force fetch training is done on nearly all field trial dogs in America because of the importance of lining to the field trial dog. If you don’t plan on running field trials, and your dog delivers to hand, and is gentle with birds then you do not need to force fetch train him.
If you are going to run field trials and want to win then you should force fetch train pup. The force fetch training is the foundation behavior for lining and is a necessary first step for forcing pup on lines. "
Cheers - Alan