Shelby(not after a Ford) Mine just plays Lassie twice a day. The difference being, she's leading me to her food dish. She seems to have a problem with the walking farts. Especially when you are following her. I tried to coerce her to move out by letting her out the front door but she just sits there patienty waiting for me to let her back in. She's no dummy. Now, if we leave her in the back yard on a 70 degree day with grass, a pool, and dogs in the neighborhood to bark at, when we get home, it sounds like their is a massacre in the back yard. That would be her whimpering and screeching from the punishment of being outside all day. She gets a treat pretty much every night from the other half. She will walk into the shower all by herself but she will make you feel guilty about it. We had a party and there was a meat and cracker tray on the coffee table. She decided to join in on the festivities and help herself. When I was a drunk, she would butter me up by sitting there an giving me that look, she almost always ended up with something I was eating.
She's been a great dog. Little to smelly and needy, but you can't have it all.