The other day I had a first appointment with this adorable little girl and her human mom, and Sadie expended a lot of energy during that first half of our appointment moving back and forth between jumping on the sofa cushions next to me and bringing a toy to and pushing it at her mom, barking at us through much of her activity.
If you have ever been on the receiving end of that kind of persistent behavior from a dog, you know, it is not always the easiest of tasks to simply ignore it in hopes that the dog will stop what it is doing and find something else to do instead.