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Gromit:
How do you do the transfer from one object to another? Darcey will "Play Hidey" for a ball just like you have described (she is ball-obsessed) but I'd like her to look for keys etc. Any advice?

AlanT:
Show the object. Hide in easy place. Find it with a bit of help if required.
Hide it again, a bit more difficult this time. Find it.
Carry on as usual.

Don't think it will take many goes to remember.
This is more about following a trail than scenting the object.

I can show two balls and then hide them.
Now he finds one, drops it and looks for the other.
Took a bit of practice but not a lot.

Well perhaps not quite. If the first find is a favourite then he retains it and just indicates the second.

I hide people also. Really easy to find.
Little treat things are hard to locate exactly. Don't give a clear scent to home in to.

What will take a lot of time is working to an instruction like:
"fetch blue ball" "fetch Santa" "fetch Monkey".
Can be done but they find this level a bit too far.

Gromit:
Thanks, I'll let you know how it goes!

AlanT:
Dogs vary of course, but anything to do with finding seems to come very easily to mine.

Mind you, ten minutes was enough to learn jumping through a Hula hoop.

Mostly I need to show something about 4-6 times to get the idea across. Won't always do it of course.
Unless it's fun.

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