[yorkietalkjilly]

If that had been Tibbe running away, I would have offered him the chicken dinner and he would have returned ASAP! Nothing like hot chicken to appeal to Tibbe!

Keep working with her using one of Tamar Geller's techniques for using when a dog is trying to cross a dangerous threshold. Practice with a real person at the door and when she attempts to go out, have that person go "wolf" on her just as she gets near the door and is beginning to think about going out it. Have them raise the arms and hands up over the shoulders, wide stance to feet, lower their head and face down toward her, hunched over and with a dark scowl, eyebrows together, growl in a low guttural, displeased voice and advance toward her saying in that same voice "Noooooooooo...............". This is as close we as humans can get to an alpha wolf reprimand. It seems kind of shocking to us but dogs do understand and appreciate this body language and growls of sorts, hard stares of significance, and it is a reprimand, wolf style. When she backs off, you give her a lovely boiled chicken treat and a wonderful praise session in a high, fun, squeaky voice just as soon as you close the door and shut the "wolf" out. Now, repeat, repeat, repeat with your "wolf" at the door, knocking and ringing and you opening the door and greeting him and each time she advances toward the door, if she gets within a prescribed distance, the person outside the open door goes "wolf" on her, advancing in the "wolf" fashion using the "Noooooooooooo......." in that low, threatening voice and you rewarding her with food, love, praise, and your loving, squeaky voice when she back off.

If you can't get a person to help, you will have to become the "wolf" and go into the alpha discipline mode when she starts toward the door as it stays open and when she back off at this behavior, then go immediately into chicken/reward/squeaky voice mode as you quickly leave the door area. But when you are near the door, she needs to know momma can become an alpha "wolf" in no time if she starts to sneak near it. You can practice with just the two of you, knocking on your own door, ringing the doorbell(which excites them) and getting her to try to approach it. These lessons can be vital in rehearsing situations with our dogs when we have a wonderful warm, high-value chicken reward for them the moment they back off from a door approach and the learned behavior starts to click in.

Training in door darting is a risk/reward system when done right. If she perceives that the risk of going out that door is the "wolf" at the door which is seriously displeased with her attempts to go through it and is in alpha mode - versus the reward is a fresh chicken treat and mommie really praising her and fawning over her like she is made of lottery tickets and diamonds, it shouldn't take her long to get the idea going out that door is now not a good thing, no matter how fond her previous memories of the GSD and the chase were. Thing is, if you will do it enough within a 2 week period now, she will get a good, strong message that the person at the door is a disciplinarian should she start toward it and trying to through it to the great world outside is going to be met with an approximation of an unhappy alpha wolf trip to the woodshed vs. a wonderful treat and praise session. This is how dogs learn in the wild giggered a little to adapt to what we can provide using the instincts they have and it works to bring them up short and give them a choice to accept the more rewarding option as a way of behaving.

Also, train your dog to "Stop!" and "Stay" on command. Tibbe was so well trained in this that when he did get out, this is how I would get him. He would always stop and stay, even when a cat was 2 doors down and he saw it. But he didn't have a chance to go into prey mode as I'd given the command to "Stop" and he was thankfully so well-trained at that time he did! But if she'd had some "Stop/stay" training when she got out, that training and that hot chicken dinner might have gotten her back right away.

What a jerk to use that situation to keep your $$$!!!