I was walking Tommy the other day at our local park and a rottie and GSD came in, both off lead very friendly, Tommy stopped to be sniffed as normal, he was behind me so I kept walking thinking he'd catch up when they'd finished but he didn't he stayed stood there for ages, I whistled him he didn't come, he stayed behind the pair of dogs and kept stopping. Eventually I took a slight detour down the hill to the brook, the other dogs followed me as I expected then were called away and left, I whistled Tommy and started back up the hill before he burst through the grass (he must've been quite far back). I put him back on his lead and we continued our walk. He normally stops to be sniffed but this was just ridiculous!
Yesterday we practised "stop the dog", there was a lot of bread put out for the birds at the park so I repeatedly stopped him before we got to the bread to ensure I had him under control. We left the park then I took him off lead again to walk up the street, I spotted a cat before him, he was quite surprised to be being put back on his lead as he'd be doing beautiful heel work :P
