I am glad to see I am not alone. Kai is beautiful by the way. Unfortunately, work gets in the way of dog play. I do get up an hour early (5:30am), run home at lunch and play ball with him in the evenings. And I do give him an enormous amount of praise after he does it outside. But he is the one that looks at me like I am crazy! I would just like to hear someone say they went thru this and their dog did finally get it!