My mate trains Police dogs and has also trained sheep dogs too, even he says to me that you can have the best behaved dog in the world, the friendliest dog ever, and it can have amazing recall. 99 times out of 100 the dog will come back if trained properly, but there's always that one time, and you can never be sure when that one time will be, especially around other dogs or if they get a whiff of a cat, rabbit or fox and just go after it.
Dogs sense things we don't and they also will just meet another dog they just don't like at all. I trained my fox red lab from a puppy during lockdown and I had him sorted, he would always come back, but then one time he didn't and he ended up half fighting with a much smaller dog who he just wouldn't leave alone and that was on a lead. His owner was upset and as I have had dogs come up to him and start a fight numerous times I instantly apologised and now never let him off his lead, even in the giant fields we have at the back of our house. We now pay to take him to a private field once a week where you book an hours time slot and they can run around to their hearts content.
I remember you used to have to have a license for your dog in the UK, but for some reason they scrapped it. I think it should be brought back and that chipping dogs should.be compulsory too.
Dogs sense things we don't and they also will just meet another dog they just don't like at all. I trained my fox red lab from a puppy during lockdown and I had him sorted, he would always come back, but then one time he didn't and he ended up half fighting with a much smaller dog who he just wouldn't leave alone and that was on a lead. His owner was upset and as I have had dogs come up to him and start a fight numerous times I instantly apologised and now never let him off his lead, even in the giant fields we have at the back of our house. We now pay to take him to a private field once a week where you book an hours time slot and they can run around to their hearts content.
I remember you used to have to have a license for your dog in the UK, but for some reason they scrapped it. I think it should be brought back and that chipping dogs should.be compulsory too.