Thank god for puppy classes! Shadow can certainly be a handful at times and just when you think you have solved a problem he finds a new angle on it, a sign of intelligence (i hope!) but you have to keep one step ahead of him all the time.
When he's feeling bored he'll wander around the house chewing at various items watching you out of the corner of his eye to gauge your reaction, he seems to find it immensely amusing to wind you up in this fashion, offering him his own toys to chew instead has no appeal whatsoever. He has also started to jump on the settee when he's alone with my son, daring him to remove him and chewing at his hands if he attempts a forcible removal, not hard enough to leave a mark, but it still hurts because of his sharp baby teeth.
The solution seems to be to reinforce the 'come' command, calling him lots of times and rewarding him with a tidbit when you want absolutely nothing from him, then when he's playing up he will still come when you call him (yes, even from the settee!)and distracting him is a lot easier (and a lot less painful)
Not that he has his 'monster' head on all the time, he is usually really sweet and a lot of the time is just happy wandering around and flopping down with you wherever you happen to be.
Training is going pretty well, heelwork is coming along nicely, he anticipates a bit when told to wait and then come, but what is really great is that he seems to enjoy it as much as i do and wants to learn.
Going to start on the down/stay this week, now that might be fun as he will go down ok, but as soon as you move he pops back up again...
Here is one of Shadows favourite places when we go for a walk...
