Excellent advice, Jilly!! I'm going to follow it as I train Piper to come when called outside (while on her long lead, of course)! And you are so, so brilliantly correct when you say not to rush it! . Again, thank you for such sound advise; very helpful. I find, too, that when I back away and crouch/kneel down as I call Piper, she gets very attentive and makes pretty short work of coming to me--where we then have an excited 'what a good, good girl' confirmation w/head rubs and smooches, but no picking her up or the like. |