Please try clicker training! I have had 4 dogs and AprilLove is the first one that I have used the clicker with. I cannot say enough about this method. She now knows to come when I call and she knows "drop it", shake, sit, down and roll over. She is 14 weeks old, and she has the same "catch me if you can" attitude when she gets ahold of something I don't want her to have. When I say "April come" she comes right away and gets a treat and also does "drop it" with whatever she has at the moment. I wish I had known about this method when I trained the othre 3! If not for this site, I would never have iknown about clicker training methods.
http://www.clickertraining.com/store...source=googlet clicker training methods. This is where I bought my clicker and and puppy clicker dvd. I so highly recommend this method! I have spent approx 10 minutes per day for the last 2 weeks with her and it is amazining results.
MaryKay
Mom to AprilLove and her "siblings" Bitsy-Roo and Bailey