About that catch
One of the questions we get most often is whether you should actually let your dog catch the flag, or keep it just out of reach so the chase lasts longer. It is a fair thing to wonder. The running is the part that looks like fun, and the catch is the part that ends it.
Let them catch it. Every time.
A chase that never ends anywhere leaves a dog wound up rather than satisfied, and after a few rounds of getting close and never quite getting it, most dogs quietly decide the thing is not catchable and stop putting in the effort. The catch is the whole payoff.
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