A year ago we adopted a wonderful spirited loving American Eskimo named Lucy. Since adopting her we have overcome many issues with her such as anxiety, cat chasing, stealing items and walking properly. Last week I found this wonderful podcast and am working on earning her respect with your series on Respect. Today we have begun the settle down step one.
My question is that she has been offleash with us twice and both times she has ran from us as though it was a game. Run run run - wait for us to catch up - and run run run again. Do you think that working on the respect series will help us defeat her need to run run run when offleash and perhaps respect our commands for her to return?
Thanks

PS. I adore your podcasts. I have a lot to catch up on since you have posted SO many. I am learning a great deal from them and so is Lucy. Keep them up!

Hi
If possible , i will introduce her to a closed and safe space and let her loose with a 30ft lead. Get her excited with her favorite toy or game. Just hoop the end of the lead around your waist and completely ignore her and start walking. As soon as she loses interest in you, run the opposite direction. Just say her name once and show that toy and make yourself the most exciting thing in the environment. If she runs towards you, keep running away till she catches up with you. Catch hold of her collar and play with her and give her a treat. It's important that she doesn't have any distraction in the environment when starting this exercise. If you have a backyard, you can start this exercise in your backyard. Once, she is performing the recall 80% correctly, then you can let her loose in your backyard and practice the same exercise without a lead. Important piece here is to only call her name once and make her come towards you. Once, she has started reliably coming to you, you can introduce your recall command. If you have already used the come word and she has learnt to ignore the word, use another recall word. To introduce the recall word, practice the same exercise and when you call her name and start running away from her, she will follow you. As soon she follows you, you give your recall command.