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ElderberryGrey

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  1. We've just adopted a gorgeous 2 year and 5 month old boy having had a gentle and lazy girl before (who we also got as a young dog). Our new boy is affectionate, sleeps calmly at night and some of the day and walks well on the leash. We've had him now for nearly 2 weeks and love him, bouncy puppy energy and all. We've been trying some simple commands like we did with our last girl (as he will eventually be around cats and we want a solid 'leave it' and 'look at me' command before then) with not much success. He's getting pretty good at a visual command for bed/down by following pointed fingers but anything else we're failing to get him to understand what we want. For look at me we've been doing a few minute sessions where his attention is drawn up to eye level with a held treat but there's no consistency on him following it. For leave it, again a few minutes of trying him to leave a treat in one hand rewarded with the other but again there's no consistency in him following. We've also failed to get him to leave the kitchen counters/dishwasher/dinner etc alone with any command or gentle physical redirection... He's strong and he knows what he wants! Has anyone got any tips?
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