Dog will chase a thrown ball but won't even pick it up..how do I teach her to bring it back?

Here are two articles that will help you with retrieve training. One teaches the dog to pick it up and hold it, the other how to bring it back to "hand"

http://www.bullwrinkle.com/training/retrieve.htm

http://www.dog-obedience-training-review.com/fetch...

The owner of the dog needs to know how to "operate" the dog, same way you can get into a car that's in perfect running order but if you don't know how to drive you won't have much luck making the car go anywhere. If the owner doesn't know how to maintain the training, the dog will soon become untrained again. Read more here https://tr.im/QQTDF

People seem to think that once a dog is trained, that's it. Not true. You must reinforce the dog's training every single day in some way. It's best if the owner and the dog go together to get trained. As a professional trainer once said to me "We can train any dog in 2 days. It takes longer to train the owners

It's a really bad idea to teach this dog to fetch, as you are promoting obsessive behavior. Your dog is at a great age to get started on livestock, what she was bred to do. Find a good sheepdog trainer and get your dog started on herding. You'll need to leave the dog with a trainer for 2-3 months (runs around $500.00 a month), then take lessons at least 2-3 days a week (they run from $35.00-$50.00 an hour, depending on the caliber of the trainer).

To train her what you can do is cut open a tennis ball and put a dog treat inside (make sure the hole isn't big enough for the treat to fall out) and let your dog smell it and she should realize what is in it and then throw it (though at first maybe not very long distance because then if she doesn't bring it back you don't have to go far to get the ball) and she should bite it or pick it up to try to get the treat out if she does then praise her from long distance but don't go to her. To get her to bring it back, you call her over while the ball is in her mouth and don't praise her if she comes back without the ball instead ignore her as you walk over and get the ball and bring it back and throw it again after checking to make sure the treat is still inside.

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sorry that the explanation is long but I tried to keep it as short as I could while still conveying the entire problem.

She will figure it out eventually, u cant really teach them to play. My dogs are not even this close to playing fetch, lol

Except my 1 yr old dog, i will throw anything, and she will pick it up and run to meand then i will have to chase in a playful way to get it bak, she is so fast and it is pretty fun 2

Sort of play tug of war with them to show you as well have an interest in the ball. Then throw it a very short ways and when they reach their nose to it go to grab it and play tug of war again. Each time go further until they grab it themselves thinking you will grab it.