We only have Zhoie, but I have to say I'm definitely alpha. There was no actual training on our behalf, I believe Zhoie just chose me. I did teach the basic commands as a pup, sit, down, stay, drop-it, shake, wait. I still reinforce them all as a game. The one that took the longest was...wait. We will be playing crazy with a ball on the floor, I stop, tell bar down, she will then lay down and I put my two fingers by my eye and lay the mini tennis ball between her front legs and say "wait". Zhoie never breaks eye contact, nor do I. When I say "ok" she grabs the ball up and twirls, she is so proud of herself, LOL. The other thing DH & I both notice is, she will back up to let me go in first out a door, she never steps out until I say ok. Now with DH, she will sometimes let him go first. If DH gets to the door first and tells Zhoie "ok" to go ahead, she will still look to me and wait. I even tried telling her it's ok, go ahead, but nope, she will wait everytime for me to go first. I figure it's important to her, so don't ruin a good thing.
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