[AnAmericanMother]

She needs to learn to "down" without being "placed". Rehearsal when she is not in ballistic mode, and plenty of it. A visual AND verbal cue, as in the "drop on recall", would be a good idea.

Most of it is probably puppy sillies which she will grow out of. You might look into training with an Ecollar. I don't know what I would have done with Ruby without it.

[Arrowhead1952]

Most of it is probably puppy sillies which she will grow out of. You might look into training with an Ecollar.

My wife told me that English Sheep Dog puppies stay in the puppy stage for almost three years. YIPES! We have considered the E-collar.