You're stuck. You've been force fetch training your gun dog for a couple months. He is doing well reaching for the dummy with ear pinch pressure. He is even picking it up off the ground. The problem is when you don't pinch the ear you get nothing or a very slow fetch. You have been saying Fetch every time even without pressure. They don't seem to understand "Fetch" means get the dummy, not ear pinch. You would like to move on but you can't until you get this figured out.
What you are getting is a refusal stage. Don't assume the dog doesn't relate the command with the pressure. The refusal stage is a key moment in the process. The dog is now refusing as an avoidance mechanism. Sometimes you get them to hesitate, but if you're getting this problem repeatedly you need to go back up on the training table. Before you move to walking fetch you should get a good reaction on the table when you give the fetch command. Right before you go to walking fetch, if you were to take a hold the dog buy the collar and hold the bumper out in front of the dog and say fetch, that dog should make tracks into the concrete and practically spin you in circles. Now you know the dog gets the picture, then go to walking fetch and when the dog balks at the fetch command, go to the ear immediately then go through the walking fetch with stick fetch. There should be absolutely no misunderstanding on what you want the dog to do.
If you're weak at the walking fetch or stick fetch and tip toe through it, when it comes to pile work and driving the dog, you're going to have major issues. A lot of the dog's training is based from force fetch. Go to the bumper, go to the bumper, go to the bumper. The yard work period keeps pressure on the dog the whole time. He needs to understand that in order to stop the pressure he needs to get to that bumper. When you get to pile work, you will be glad that you have a solid foundation from the table. Because when you line him up and he sees that pile of bumpers out there, he knows he will get a correction if he does anything less then go to the bumper. But all this stuff repeats, when you get to pile you line the dog there. He already knows go to the bumper and now introduce the back command. Give the command...back or fetch. Next its force to the pile. The dog already understands pressure from the ear pinch this is where you use the e-collar and drive the dog to the pile.
A lot of this stuff repeats somewhere along the training so if you're having issues, take the step back and really drive the idea home on how you want the dog to perform.
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