Drop It pays off!!

[taltolson]

I was visiting my Mom Friday. They have 10acres of what used to be a christmas tree farm with all sorts of doggy heaven interesting smells and stuff. And 20 chickens who occasionally get to free range.... You know what happened next!  Khuno caught one. It sure looked like he was trying to swallow it whole but on the second or third "drop it" he did! Wahoo! We will work on a more prompt response but given how tempting a live chicken is I think that's a fantastic response. The chicken was fine (okay mentally tormented but alive), luckily he caught one of the buff orpingtons who have really thick feathering. Khuno did get a mouth full of feathers which he ate and then promptly found some lovely stinky chicken poop to roll in. Uggh! Chicken poop is not as bad a skunk but the stink doesn't come out easily.

[Sendiulino]

Poor chicken

I once dropped one of my pills on the floor, and Sam lunged for it, but she hit the floor in a "down/stay" when I yelled "Leave it!"

Leave it / Drop it is arguably the most important command your dog can know, right up there with "Come".

[snowballsmom]

i think it is THE most important thing to teach. one we have failed at, we realized last night, when harry found a dead bird the neighbors cat left, and he wasnt leaving it for anything. i had to grab garden gloves and pry it from him. ewwww. my own dogs are leave it pros. i have dropped medicine, numerous times, and they never even pay attention anymore.

[caroline]

I have never been successful on that command....sigh...i remember once Shiraz had a baby rabbit in her mouth, it was gross...

[Geno]

Funny story... Chester does awesome with "drop it". My Granddaughter left the door to her room open and Chester stole a Patrick (from sponge bob) stuffed toy. I caught him with it runing down the hallway. I yelled "drop it" and he did. 2 days later Patrick was left in my Son's room, door left open, Son sleeping on bed, and I was out. Chester stole Patrick again and chewed him up. Now that's patience.

In case you didn't figure it out, my Son has moved back in with me.

Geno