Nobella's advise is just what I would have said. We don't have that problem but that's the advise I've seen given here many times. Tatum will actually pick something up right in front of you just because she knows you're watching and then do a very dramatic slinking tip-toe walk away just so we'll laugh at her. Then she'll drop it like "ha-ha, made you look!". Don't mean to brag too much but for some reason she's never been one to pick up little things that she shouldn't. I fuss at my kids all the time to not leave little things laying around because she might try to eat it but for some reason, she just doesn't. The only time she plays chase is with a toy of hers when we want to participate. We're really lucky with that issue!
Stop, stay and come are very, very important commands to try to teach. They have come in handy in a few emergency what could have been dangerous situations with Tatum. I tell you, once you master those commands, you'll just swell with pride when they obey you the first time in an emergency situation. I know I did! No, it's not aways easy - sometimes really damn hard - to teach these but you'll have a better dog for it!
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