First off.
She gets a 45min. walk in the morning and a 1 hour walk after dinner. I'll admit she is a little more wound up in the afternoon as I would be too if I were home all day sleeping!
Well lastnight we made some more progress. We practiced focus and got out the 50 foot leader for the first time. Roxie did VERY well. Her recalls were almost perfect. and we even found a yard with 3 fenced in dogs to practice around. A couple of pretty loud whailes and a bark or 2 later, she finally calmed down. She was even able to focus long enough to do some "off leash" healing. Now keep in mind I never actually took her off the lead, I had my wife follow behinf with the long leader right out. Roxie stayed right on heal and was receptive to the constant firing of trats for her efforts. We also worked on some "down stays" and recall with the dogs in sight.
Overall, we did reallt well. Once we got so close to the dogs that roxie couldn'r focus anymore (40 feet or so) we backed off and started over.
We were out for close to 2 hours before Roxie became tired and disinterested.
I'm going to work the same way tonight. Roxie is still very loud, don;t get me wrong, but once I got her calm and relaxed, she was golden.
Thanks everyone! I'll give you daily updates. We go in for our heartworm test tonight
Roxie loves the Vet...go figure.