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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly

Few terriers will voluntarily give up their resource as a pure retrieval service, especially males. Of course, you and all doglovers know, any puppy, even male terriers, can enjoy the act of playing a type of fetch at times and if enjoy it, will likely continue to do it as they age; but, as I said earlier, most don't w/out some type of repetitive positive-reinforcement training/conditioning or play at early age or happy, continuing associations with it. Have to see sharing resources as a win-win or they just won't do it. As you know, if you've read any of my behavior modification/training type posts, you can train a dog to do anything if he enjoys it, go against his nature even, but w/out that kind of positive, repetitive conditioning, few naturally fetch. I didn't think it was necessary to add all this B4 but there are always fun exceptions, even with our beloved tyrannical terriers, their tyranny being one of their most endearing qualities!

It's so funny the only thing I had to teach him was drop it in my hand not on the floor because sometimes I couldn't reach it lol. My trainer thought it was awesome and I'm like ok you play fetch with him for an hour . Its harder with 3 that want to play though because Ollie will take it and not give it back so it frustrates Joey who will sit and bark at him.