Sunday 18th February

Let Molly out in the morning for a run round the garden and continued to call her to me. So far she is 100% on this in the garden lawn. Granted I am waiting until she is not distracted by anything before I call her to me but 'from little acorns....'! Very happy with the progress so far.
After a few minutes of this I got out the rolled up sock and holding her I threw the sock and she was straining at the bit to get after it. I held her until the sock hit the ground and then she was off like a bullet for it. Picked and back to me. She ran to the right of me and past me so I stayed on my knees and encouraged her to come to me which she did fairly quickly and I took the sock from her and loads of praise. I moved then so that the kennel wall was at my back and repeated the exercise. This time she could not run past me with the wall at my back and came straight into me. Again loads of praise. I did this 3 times and she came to me every time. I then moved to the original spot where she ran past me and tried again. This time she came straight into me. I gave her loads of praise and left it at that (total of 5 retrieves). Quit while you are ahead is the main thing in training. In the evening then I took her out and let her run around again and called her to me. Still 100% (this is going too well...something must be wrong ha ha ha). On the 3rd recall I commanded to sit and put her into position. She went to wriggle but a little pressure under her chin put her right. Gave loads of praise and repeated 5 times. Finished with a good play in the garden. So far so good.