>>>I would never expect a dog to give me constant attention for 5 minutes in less than a year of working on attention under distractions.<<<

Holy smokes! I guess I am expecting too much too fast! This surely makes me feel better.

Can you give me a few examples of attention exercises? I would like to try them. I will focus on these for a while in our training.

These rotties are great fun to train; mine is so quick to learn and interested when I'm doing it the right way. I must say he also seems to NEED to learn new things all the time!