We live very rurally and have sheep and lambs in field opposite at the moment. Our garden is hard to completely secure but we have created a garden within the garden for her to play in. Pup is a crossbreed, I work from home and have spent a lot of time playing with and training her. She is very bright and active and knows her commands. Well obviously she doesn't well enough. We have a lovely wood on our doorstep too and she loves to run off lead in there. Initially we had no problems with recall, did hide and seek, whistle training at home and then in the woods. About a month ago she started recalling for the first half of the walk and then running off to find another dog walker or find the cows still out in a neighbouring field. Today that extended to running back through woods, across our minor road and into sheep field where I found her excitedly chasing round and round sheep and lambs. She eventually came over near enough for me to grab her and put her on lead. I have done loads of recall training where I call her back and then let her go on again and also with playing with other dogs she will come back. Because she is a bit dodgy in the woods, she disappears so fast we often don't know where she's gone, I have been walking her in the morning in open fields and lanes on and off lead and down in our village footpaths where I have to keep a good eye out for livestock but find she is improving. We like to use the woods for her afternoon walk because of short evenings and convenience. Now have decided to go open field or on lead afternoon walk. Any advice?
Don't know if it is pertinent but she doesn't sleep much during the day, hasn't since the day we brought her home. We have worked hard on creating a relaxed early morning,short play, rest of breakfast in Kong , DH goes to work early, then 40 min walk on and off lead...sleep, I ignore whilst getting on with house and work, she sleeps for about an hour then follows me around. I may go out, she is happy to be left, doesn't whine, bark or destroy. Lunchtime we go out in garden, play and train or I play and do training session indoors. She has a snack at lunch and settles for an hours sleep when DH gets home from work at 2.30pm. We play with her and then take for afternoon walk for approx 1/2 hour and then she free ranges in the garden until her tea at 5pm. She dozes and then I groom her long coat for 10 mins, she has a chewy and apart from a wee trip at 7pm and 10pm before bed is settled for the night. I wonder whether she is overtired and this causes bad behaviour on afternoon walk. Sorry for long post.