game chase me and get my bone ...game with inherent problems

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dottie

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I am working with my Brittany on his retrive. He was not force fetch trained.* He is doing ok.... will fetch bumpers *and birds from land always* returns them ....but we are working on speed of delivery and style. HOWEVER .... today out of the blue* he surprized me with a " come play ...try to get my BONE....an actual bone he was chewing. He expected me to join in an impromtu chase game. I really did not know how to react. It was not a bird or a bumper, i did not toss it or command fetch,it was his bone.
I called him to the heel position took the BONE *on " give" gave it back to him on" hold" and then tossed it for him to keep and walked *away.
It was great to see him want to play, as he is pretty serious dog.
BUT in the future ....How should I respond to this game. If I want him to always retrive to hand can I give him a little slack.
additionally could someone talk about* the process of " fun bumpers"...what rules apply?
thanks

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Why do you even care what he does with toy? Let him have fun and be a dog!
To quote Evan Graham "leave something in it for the dog"

Fun bumpers have no rules, throw it with no commands or expectations. High drive dogs don't benefit from fun bumpers.... More likely they do harm, low drive dogs or dogs that just received a lot of pressure will benifit. I rarely throw fun bumpers as most of my dogs are pretty hot.
 
Tennis balls are the dogs'. If they want me to, I will throw. Sometimes they bring it back. My dogs are 8, 8 and 13. They know what to do. Bring me the bird without any tooth puncture in it.

For a 3 year old, just learning fetching, I would not use tennis balls. To play the chase game, I suddenly become Frankenstein and pursue them. Then they chase me. Tag instead of keep away.
 
Maybe the dog got bored with the "training" and just wanted to have some fun. :D
 
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