Woodie said:

Well Benny Boy can GAGF.

It’s this maniacal obsession with “fetch it”. It overrides everything. Calling, pats, treats, the lot

Put him out for before bed “poos and pidders” last night, and he grabbed his inside toy, Pekoe ( you can guess what colour that is), and bolted out the door.

No way know would he come back with a call, and parked himself in the “ready to pounce” spot, and would take off down the paddock as if I’d chucked it, As I moved closer to him. This went of for at least 1/2 hr.

Fuck him. He can stay there, so I shut the door and went to bed. If he wandered off in the dark and not find his way back? So be it. He didn’t have his GPS collar on him. It was on “charge”.

However, he way laying at the front door when I got up this morning.

So I’ve got to break this maniacal obsession he has developed just through game play with him. So that’s it with the “chuck it” game. All chuck it toys have been put away for at least a week.

That’ll learn him. That I’m the boss. Not him.

BTW….. Benny Boy was not naughty. So no growling. Growling at a dog is no way to get him to “come”. He was just very very defiant.