Poor behaviour.....Is it my fault???

Thanks spk, I may well try that in the future, at the moment I'm happy to let Alfie throw the ball at me from the sit, I laugh every time at him

This afternoon I took him out with the same three grandchildren he was with on Sunday. My strapping 6ft 4in 14 yr old grandson managed to launch Alfie's tennis ball into a blackberry hedge at his second throw of the walk, we couldn't find it so had to think
of other ways to entertain Alfie. I suggested that we split up and go different ways aound a  clump of small saplings about 50m wide, they took Alfie on his lead around the corner, let him loose and treated him, then shouted "ready", I shouted "Alfie" just
once, and waited with baited  breath. Sure enough he came running full pelt around the corner and made straight for me, great!!... I made him sit, held his harness, and fussed and treated him, "OK" I shouted, on hearing the shout of "Alfie" from the children
I let him go and said "Go" to Alfie, Off he went like a rocket and was soon out of sight around the corner, I heard the children saying "Good Boy" so knew he was with them, we carried on "playing"  as we walked up the field, back and forth he went, clearly
enjoying his new game, on his last return to me the crafty devil came jumping through the long grass and the sapliings, cutting out the long run around the corner.
By this time we were at the top of the field, "let's play hide and seek" said the children, so we did, splitting up again going our different ways and hiding from Alfie as we called him, when he found us he gave a yelp of delight every time. We were enjoying
it so much that we didn't realise the time or the state we had got into (muddy). We had been  out for three hours and would be late for dinner On
arriving home I duly received a ticking off from Mrs BT for being late and getting all five of us dirty. It was worth it though