There goes Aly......on her way to China! I remember those days all tooooo well!!! Cody is used to one long walk at night, for some reason he rarely likes to walk in the daytime, he'd rather sit on the porch and watch the world go by. I probably trained him that way, getting home late from work etc, and didn't realize it. He is very territorial and will deviate on 2 specific routes, but our blocks are fairly long so he gets a lot of good sniffing in ( ) and definitely leaves his mark to let all the other dog intruders know he was there first!Thank God I'm to the point I can hold his leash with one finger or even around my neck and he's pretty good at stopping to a dead halt if I say "car coming, stay" or crossing a street, but I still would never trust him off lead. I remember when he was around 2 and it had snoed a foot and he pulled me to run, I slipped and we did an idotitron down the street, tore my pants at the knees and had 2 huge boo-boos that were very attractive, and yes, I burst out in tears from embarassment ("look at that girl who can't control her dog")and pain. Sorry for the boring story!