Pepper does pretty good with fetch.
She is soft mouthed unless it is a stick with leafs or a snake.
Then it gets the tar shaken out of it on the way back.
The other day she had one of those Giant Japanese Hornets downed and was pawing at it.
Got on the leave it command right away. Understand a sting is very poisonous.
Last week at about 11pm she was having quite the conversation.
There was a Great Horned Owl on a brick stockade fence post hooting at her, and she was in-turn barking at it.
I say conversation because instead of jumping up at it like she does the opossum, she was just sitting there barking. And it was a weird tone barking that I haven't heard her make. And not growly at all. I had her come in and the owl kept hooting less and less frequently for about 10 minutes, then flew up to where it normally perches in the top of a cottonwood tree in my back yard. Evidently the owl wasn't finished. Maybe they were discussing the varmint, lizard and snake population? Who can hunt when etc (pun intended).