Maike is two months old today and I can already see that she loves bringing things back that I chuck out. I plan on taking her to gundog training somewhere down the line but for now we're just playing 'bring back' games in the kitchen. Her breeder trains dogs for Field Trials but I've got neither the ambition nor the experience for that, but I would like to do scurries with her once she's older.
I was just wondering whether there's a special way I should go about playing fetch games with her? I've seen working dog handlers complaining about their dogs getting 'spoilt' by people just chucking random balls for them and not having to do the retrieve properly - but she's so young all I am interested in is stimulating that natural urge she has to retrieve, not in structured training.
So, to sum up, is just chucking her weird looking rattling toy and telling her to 'bring back' fine for now?
