Originally Posted by Elsie's mum

The recall practice is going well and she is getting realy responsive although she is still on a long line in rabbit fields but I have come to a problem. When she gets excited she tends to nip at my ancles and she has started going this when i call her to me somtimes, when she was a pup she did this alot and it was solved by me just tellng her no but the problem I have is I don't want to tell her no for the nipping when she has just done somthing I realy want her to do (come back) so for now I have just been ignoring it when she does it on a recall but other times like when on a lead I will tell her no. Is this right? and does anyone have any other advice on the nipping? It doesn't realy hurt and I know its kind of a collie thing.