This is treated with yard work training and never EVER call the dog and discipline her when you finally get her to you. If she need discipline stop calling her and just go catch her, but it is a mistake to ever ever hit your dog. It will never forget it when you do.
Teach sit, then stay or sit stay on a least. use hand signals and lifting the leash while pushing down on the rump. Once sitting bring you hand topward the face and stop it right in front of the face as if it hit a barrier, then after the dog understands this command back away from her while holding the leash. Do it and stop her every time she tries to come to you the instant she starts to get up. Put her back in her exact place where she was! She knows where she was when you gave the command stay so replace her exactly. ( What you are trying to do is teach her not to move, but if you say the same word and she is in a different place how does she learn its meaning?) Put Her back! Once she graspes the stay command, try backing up slowly and keeping her there. Repeat this daily and keep cessions short, trying to end each one on a good note. Once she understands the sit stay what I do is back away holding the leash and keep my hand out palm up just like a policeman directing traffic. This is body language for stop. In training people in my office at this point I would tell them to look at me and walk towards me, then I would throw my hand up and though it did happen sometimes that aperson would keep coming, almost all of them stopped instantly! It works surprisingly welll with dogs too. So, back to the dog training...
With pooch at sit stay I would back away with my stop sign out and repeat the word stay and tap them if necessary wiith the lead, then IF they are staying in place I will SLOWLY approach them talking softly to reassure them they are doing what they're supposed to do. ( note : We are much bigger and are intimidating when we approach quickly,so go slowly. If they stay still until you get there reward , reward , reward, but if they have moved you go back and repeat until you can approach with out their moving.
Now you do this daily as part of their routine, and you are and THEY are ready for the come command. Here's what to do: Get them to sit stay still on the leash then you back away slowly and at the end of the leash you try to squat down SLOWLY< WITH YOUR STOP SIGN OUT> If they stay at sit stay then I poit my finger at then and swing it to the floor right at my feet calling ther name one time and saying come once. They probably won't move because they are obeying the sit stay , but if they don't repeat the come the hand signal and give a little bit of a tug to get them started. Your squatted position is a friendly posture and your voice soft and inviting not shouted. All of this should tak place in a normal speaking tone, ALL of the commands softly! Shouts are intimidating. I generally did all of this with otherpeople's dogs in about fifteen to twenty minutes. Now backj to the dog if it comes on command or even if you must darg it to you , keep your command soft and inviting as you drag, but do drag! When it get to you PRAISE, Praise praise, the praise will be gnuine and the dog will know it! It is worth everything to see that light come on in the pup's eyes and yours too if you could see yourself! Then you repeat this process daily at least or three or so times a day. It takes a dog three weeks to learn something and retain it well. I did this in my exam rooms and space was about four feet of leash. I could teach sit , stay,and come in that space in twenty minutes and build that language with otherpeoples dogs. You can too. Now that you have gotten these commands into the dog's mind you now move to a bigger space and do them , and then to the yard. I prefer to start inside as there are fewer distractions. Once you get sit stay and come down push button, you can go hunting and the dog if it will miind you is way ahead of the game. I really liked Richard Wolters' book GUN DOG for obedience training, and obedience training is obedience training for any breed. I agree also with his philosophy that with oput it you should not take your dog to the field. Different stroke for different folks I guess but I hav had really good results with his methods and they made sense to me. I practiced vet med for forty years and trained a lot of client dogs. I hope this helps you, it is difficult to type all this and I'm sorry it is long but it will work if you do it. If and only if you absolutely KNOW the dog understands the COME command and is just ignoring you... then it may be time to use the e-collar,, but be very sure and condition the dog first as the mfger suggests or you will for sure ruin a good dog if misused!
I did use an e-collar on my present best ever had birddog and I trained her with a whistle and hand signals. She responds instantly to my whistle, but the down side is She goes crazy if a football or Basketball game is on TV. I'd rather have a good bird dog but I hate to see her alarm when she hears a whistle! She literally runs through the house trying to hide, so I watch other things...Good luck PM me if you need phone coaching I'd be happy to help if I can. Bill
