RE: Problem with German Shepherd pups
Doc's right.
Alone a dog can be an angel... Get another dog or two and you have a street gang. Just like teenagers. Keep working on the obedience on your dogs, make sure they want to come to you when called.
Some people choose to make it a so called "positive" experience for the dog when he comes to you.
I prefer to show the dog that it is a "Negative" experience when He Does Not come to me. I never scold a dog for coming even if he just ate my shoes. I will just say something like, "look what you did dummy"... Never use your recall commandfor a tongue lashing.
My dogs are independent in the field until I tell them otherwise, then they will do as I say because they have experienced the consequences of disobeying.
I've had dogs almost fall over when I would give a come-back whistle, while they were running, they had stopped so fast...They do not want to hesitate. They are tring to beat my collar corrections.