not rude at all, I understand what you are trying to say. the difference is that it is a LOT easier to catch a 50 lb lab in a house than it is a 7 lb jack rabbit quick fur ball. the lab isn't going to go under the couch, around the back and between your legs before you can even bend over! that seems to be the problem I have with training Maddie - how do I "make" her do something when I can't catch her to make her do it?????
something else we have been working on is to say the word "up" whenever we pick her up (when she is ready for us to pick her up!). you can actually feel her helping you pick her up, so it's not like we just snatch her up into the air. we say up so she knows we are picking her up. but, as I said, you can say up until the sun sets and unless she wants to be up to go for a ride or walk or whatever, you can say up and it may as well mean run around like a crazy person.
as an earlier poster said, my Maddie also plays the "I've got something I shouldn't have" and there is no way you are going to catch me to get it away from me. I may come when you say come, but you are NOT going to pick me up and pry it from my mouth cause I'll be off and running before you can even think about picking me up.
When I drop something in the kitchen she has it snapped up before I can even say the words leave it. I can put her in a sit and put a treat down and say leave it and she will sit there literally forever before I tell her to go get it. But if it's dropped, she must think it's manna from heaven and a gift from the gods cause she's got it and she's not giving it back!
These little buggers are so funny... you read about taking them for walks and treating them at your calf to get them to heel, heck, I don't think I can even bend over that far!