Chris Bach has some excellent training techniques— many of which we used with our dogs, and one in particular helped keep the treat focused dogs more in check— To get the treat, one must give up the treat...
A link to Chris’ site (though this is just a quick post-and-run, so not sure what’s out there anymore, but likely mostly training materials for sale...):
http://www.trainthethirdway.com/
We also used clicker training, which often employes food treats, but any thing that motivates the dog can be used for a reward. Gary Wilkes is a good resource for that.
If interested, I can try to get you more info about the ‘to get the treat one must give up the treat’ process— just pressed for time at the moment. Ping me if interested.
Dogs will eventually learn whatever name you decide to use. We got one dog at approx. age 2, a rehome from a family that ran a stable and the dog would not stop chasing horses. The family loved him, it was not an abuse situation. We just didn’t care for his name. He caught on pretty quickly.
>Chris Bach has some excellent training techniques— many of which we used with our dogs, and one in particular helped keep the treat focused dogs more in check— To get the treat, one must give up the treat...<
They say nothing is new on the planet. The European Schutzhund trainers have been using that bit of dog psychology for eons. Not to diss Chris.