29/01/2026
January Training Challenge – Day 29
🐾 Practise what you want – not what you don’t 🧠
Don’t be fooled into visiting the same place where your dog has consistently failed at recalling.
If your dog keeps failing recalls in the same places…
it’s not a recall problem.
It’s a rehearsal problem.
📍 The honest truth
If every time you go to:
• your local park
• the usual field
• your favourite dog walking spot
…and your dog ignores you…
👉 you’re practising not coming back. And today or tomorrow will be no different.
🔄 Change the habit, change the outcome
Instead of fighting old habits:
• Ditch the familiar hotspots (for now)
• Choose quieter, easier locations
• Stack the odds in your favour
• Build successful recalls again
New place = fresh slate.
🧠 Why this works
Dogs learn by repetition.
Habits are location-specific.
If recall has a history of failure somewhere,
the environment is already winning.
So we:
✔ Build recall where it’s easy
✔ Create success after success
✔ Let confidence grow
✔ THEN revisit old haunts later when the dogs recall is habitual.
💡 Day 29 takeaway
You don’t fix recall by testing it.
You fix recall by:
👉 practising success
👉 building habits
👉 choosing your environments wisely
Train the behaviour you want.
Don’t keep rehearsing the one you don’t.
Build the habit, not the excuse. 💪🐾
