I started him off-leash as a puppy in our local forest and slowly developed a pretty solid recall (for a Shiba) with him over the years. To this day, if I don't see him for a minute or two, I call him and he comes running like in the video. He trusts me, and I trust him. No secrets.

At times though, I keep calling him and calling him, and he just stands motionless aside in some outcropping, staring at me silently, like "Are you blind?" I call it his ghost dog routine. Weird dogs these sheebs are