All the books you read will say that until you can get your dogs attention in the home, it will never happen outside where there are so many more distractions. It sounds like you need to do some training in your house and garden and establish yourself as pack leader, before you venture outside. Its difficult i know. Molly is very good a lot of the time, but often when she is off the lead and running around the fields,she just ignores me when i call her back. I always take a few bits of cooked chicken (her favourite) and this does usually make her come back to me. I am trying to do lots of training inside as well, and the more i do, the better she behaves when we are out. |