Glad neither you or Teddy got hurt too bad! Smokey has always been one to snap, but lately it's been horrible. My friend, Melissa, is afraid to pick him up now. I have to pick him up a certain way....hold my hand behind his head so he can't move his neck...to make sure I don't get bit! Sometimes he'll bite at me for just trying to pet him. We've all got bit, but luckily his teeth arent' real great either...it doesn't hurt. Reggie doesn't have too many teeth either, when we had them cleaned several of them had to be removed. I'm brushing Nebo's teeth, lol, I don't want him to end up like them!

My dogs don't have that herding instinct like Teddy, but they like to play games like that. Sometimes Melissa and I play a game. One of us hides (with a food treat) and the other one takes the dogs into a room while they hide. They think it's great to run around the house to find us! The best is playing it while camping though. We have some mountain property (i think it's like 1 1/2 acres)...not many people around us or anything. We let Reggie run loose to try and find us. And we can hide GOOD up there! He's surprisingly fast at it! I guess it's that doggy nose! I doubt I'll ever be able to let Nebo run loose up there, but I'm going to try to train him to do that also...on a long leash.