Phew, UK English, American English, South African English!!! How on earth are we supposed to understand each other?!!!

Thanks Lizbud for your input, I sometimes wonder if this thread is of interest to anyone else, it's pretty much a 2 way conversation with Carrie and me!!

OK, to reword. Carrie, you were saying in an earlier response that I should NOT take the dogs for a walk for 2 weeks because in a pack, only members that can be trusted are allowed to go hunting, etc. I was wondering if that would be the solution to Digby testing us. He runs ahead of us toward the road and then half turns to see if we call him back. If we call him back, he'll come back immediately but if we don't call him back, he runs across the road (every time he gets near the road, we tell him to sit and put him back on lead). This seems as though he's testing our position as pack leader, making sure we are looking out for the other members.

He is still pulling a bit on our way to the park but we have been trying to vary the place where we take them off lead and every time Digby moves out of heel, we turn around or do a circle so he has to listen. It means that if he's in heel, he gets let off sooner and seems to be working quite well.

We do have another open area just above the normal place where we walk, but the grass is long and WET in the morning!! Well, nearly the weekend, maybe we can drive them somewhere this weekend and do heelwork.

Carrie, I looked back and that sentence didn't make much sense to me either. Lizbud, I'm not sure what a div is either!!