My puppy won't come with toy, growls. How to teach drop and recall?

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My puppy won’t come to me when he has a toy in his mouth and wants to run from me like play. But I genuinely want him to come to me. But when he doesn’t have a toy he usually always comes to me. How can I stop this ? And make him come no matter what. Also i noticed when i took a toy out his mouth he growled and i just don’t want him to do this and make this a habit. I don’t play tug of war with him in case of an emergency but he wants to a lot. Pet's info: Dog | Mixed Breed Large (61lb +) | Male | neutered | 7 months and 27 days old | 115 lbs

Sara Farmer, DVM · Accepted Answer

You should work on a command like ‘drop’ to teach him to put the toy down when you ask, them ask him to come. You will need to offer a high value treat to get him to drop the toy. The growling may be an attempt at getting you to play when you were pulling the toy away from him - if you work on asking him to put the toy down you can probably avoid this in the future. Clicker training can be especially helpful since you can click as soon as the toy is dropped.

My puppy won't come with toy, growls. How to teach drop and recall?

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