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Zooey went to puppy kindergarten tonight. She was already tired, then she got lots of liver treats at the class. An hour after we returned home, she refused to come with us of the kitchen and into the living room. She wasn't interested in "cookies" and was clearly fighting sleep (she's hyper-vigilant). I very calmly approached her to guide her by her collar but she ran around the kitchen island - twice. I didn't think that it was a good idea to drag out the interaction and she obviously needed to be crated for the night as she wasn't going to go to sleep on her own which has been an issue since we got her. So, I picked her up and carried her to crate, gave her a treat stuffed Kong and thirty seconds later, she was fast asleep.

Obviously, I'm not going to be able to do this for very long and have never done it before. Any ideas? She is 16 1/2 weeks old.

PS This is not a result of lack of training. We have her in three different classes a week now - puppy kindergarten, formal beginning obedience and pre-agility and we train constantly at home. She is the star of two of her three classes. However she was described by her foster mom as being "in a world of her own". She is very intelligent so I'm assuming that this is a level of independence which wasn't exhibited by her littermates.