FurPaw wrote in
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Sounds like she really understands her commands!

She usually pretty good. I'm the one who screws up.

Now here's a question for all. At what age did your dogs develop
a rock-solid (or even pretty solid) recall,

Beats me. I really started taking recalls seriously when I was
living out in the country, but those years are all kind of blurred
together for me. Harriet was probably 3-4 years old?

or response to other
commands, especially in the face of distraction, and how much
effort did you put into developing that?

I haven't done much to set up intentional distractions or proofing.
What I *have* done, though, is play simon says. I think that tuned
Harriet's ear pretty well. The other thing I've been careful about
is notnotnot letting her blow off commands. EVAR! So, not a whole
lot of effort, but lots of consistency.

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