Katie the sock thief

This is our newest pup named katie. She was born on August 1st 2005 in Monarch AB. The Breeder was a cool guy who loved his dogs. When we picked Katie, she was full of energy and we loved how she would stop for a second think about how to get the toy from the other pup and execute her plan. We thought that was funny but now we are not so sure, now she does it with us. anyway when we were going home she rode in behind the seat of the truck and ate all the cinamon buns without us knowing. We got her home and she got very sick to the point where i was sure she was going to die. Took her to a vet and he thought she had parvo and gave us some pills that did nothing for her. I searched the internet and found what i thought it was, Pyoderma, took her to another vet and sure enough that's what she had. very similiar to a staph insfection. He gave us some antibiodics and she slowly came back to life. She now is all the pup we can handle. she loves to express dominance and I never let her get away with anything. She thinks she is the Queen of this hive and pushes on deb as another expression of dominance. This has got to be the hardest dog to train in the world. But what i found is that once they figure it out they are absolutley obedient in that task. When Katie was little deb would give her an old sock to play with, well now the behavior has transfered to all socks and nylons. she gets up in the morning and walks out with a sock, she goes to get a drink, drops the sock in the water , drinks, grabs the sopping wet sock and covers the floors in water. As a side note, I think someone drilled holes in her bottom jaw because when she drinks it pours out of her mouth all over the floor. I guess i need to train her to swallow what she drinks. She loves tug of war, My nephew Christopher was her last weekend and they pulled and tugged at each other for hours, i was very entertained. I bought a electric training collar for her. YA YA it's not what you think. I tried it first before i put it on her. When I put that collar on now, she suddenly becomes obedient, she heels excellent without a leash and when she steps forward ahead of me, I stop and she runs around behind me and stands at my left side. I've also used it to stop bad behaviour without me being the one she recognizes as delivering the punishment. I don't know if every dog should have one, but i do think the dominant breeds would benefit from them. The idea is to get their attention, not to cause them pain so i keep the settings down pretty low. We have been working on sit / stay/ come commands and she knows them, now we're just trying to reinforce them. She loves to fetch and we are working on fetch at command and some blind fetches. She is almost ready for bird training come spring. Ahh she's a good dog, she drives us nuts because she can be very focused, Murphy never carried his food dish to us when he was hungry, she does, sometimes we are still in bed and she'll jump on the bed and drop the dish on us. it's pretty funny. we are glad we have her.