Quote Originally Posted by BC_MoM View Post
I have the opposite problem! Jersey won't spit the ball out for a tug or another ball! LOL

It sounds like need to teach Paris to "HOLD IT". Teach her to hold the ball in her mouth with the clicker. Start off with just a couple seconds, and work your way up slowly to 15 seconds. Then when she is good with that, you can add it to her runback. When she goes off the box (or picks up the ball off the ground if you're doing dead ball) and starts running back say "PARIS, HOLD IT!"

Good luck!
Thanks! Yeah... thats what we have sort of been working on... well I haven't done much with her the last couple weeks since I've had the flu... but thats what I was trying to do before I missed the last 2 weeks.... but I just got back from Flyball class... I think the 2 wk break did her good.. she did surprisingly well.... and was very excited to be back.... and she VERY much wanted to go get that ball... which is HUGE for her, as when I first started flyball training with her in March (or was it april??? dunno) she wouldn't even think about going to get that ball!!! LOL

Didn't get her to bring the ball all the way back over all 4 jumps yet... so we took away all the jumps except the last one before the box.... as today she was spitting the ball soon as she would turn off the box, to start running to me.... so we got her to bring the ball over one jump and rewarded.... did that a few times... and then put a 2nd jump up... and got her to bring the ball back over 2 jumps... stopped at that for this class... but this week I'll work with her more on the "hold it" command.... for next weeks class...