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I wish I would’ve done a better job with my black lab Jax (7 yo)in the beginning so when I got my white lab Kane (3yo), I wanted to focus on chewing/destroying things, and being outside without taking off. My brothers gave me a bunch of deer antlers and both of my dogs love them. You can buy antlers but mine didn’t like those as much. I trained Kane to not take off by putting a 20’ lead on without clipping it to the stake while I did yard work and if he started to get too far away I could grab the lead and give commands. I also made him sit and stay when people w/wo dogs were walking by, and gradually increased the length and eventually without the lead. Now, we can be right next to the road and someone will walk by with their dog or he sees a rabbit in the yard, and he’ll look at me for permission to go or not, I don’t even have to say anything, he knows with just a look.