My nearly 1 year old pup is starting to show me signs of the light at the end of the tunnel of the adolescent phase.
We've really struggled with recall and have been working on it with a long line, today, due to seeing some good improvement I let my pup off leash a bit in our yard. Mistake!
We did some play and some training and he was great and engaged but I think I let it go too long and he got bored? He started eating dirt so I wanted him to come in.
Eventually he did this thing that he has done before where he will realize its time to go in and won't want to listen at all and run away from me.
How do I discourage this behavior? We try not to chase too much, but running away from him doesn't work. We try a variety of ways to get his attention but nothing has worked reliably.
We had been limiting off leash time due to not listening when he doesn't want to be done playing or training or just sniffing about to work on recall.
Any advice?
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