Has anyone had a problem with their pup (Keely's nearly 13 weeks) showing interest in passing cars? We had a situation a couple of weeks ago where she got a little fright because there was an oil lorry and a taxi maneouvering around us on a country road with no pavement or way of escape. I thought she had gotten over it but i noticed both yesterday and this morning that whilst i'm treating her when vehicles pass she's ok, but starts showing a lot of interest and actually lurches on the lead once they have passed, as if making to chase them  I've tried keeping her attention at this point but she seems to be mesmerised by them.

Thanks. After posting i took Keely to the local village which is actually a major route for a lot of heavies. It has wide pavements though and as luck would have it a lady approached us and started making a fuss of Keely the moment we got out the car so that distracted her initially. Her tail was still sitting quite low afterwards when we carried on walking but she was interested in all the new sniffs and gradually started showing full interest in treats. I think i'll maybe take her there every day for the next week or so then maybe move on to the main town centre.

I think i maybe overreacted after last night and this morning - i just had visions of Keely turning into one of those dogs who starts barking and trying to chase after every car she sees.

I think i'm having a confidence crisis with her training in general at the moment as she's a little bit skittish in general because of her peeing problem so getting her full concentration is near impossibe at any time, even with treats or her ball. I'm trying not to put too much pressure on her but she's now not as good with the "sit" command as she was before. I know pups go through stages of improving then moving backwards but to be honest my other half in inclined to repeat commands over and over("sit, sit, sit Keely, ssssiiiiiittttt!") and i think "sit" is now lost on her so i'm trying to catch her going into the sit position and re-associating the command with it and treating during the day while he's at work.

I had her out yesterday in the field on the training line and she was great at that. I've managed to train her recall to 2 pips on the whistle (with a cheese reward). She was so interested in the hedgerows and dykes but she still came back to the whistle 98% of the time. Think i'll maybe concentrate on that just now instead of worrying too much about the other commands, i dont want to set her up for failure.

Sorry, i've kinda gone off topic here

Luckily for us Keely's really bold with other dogs, bigger or smaller which i suppose can cause problems too though. She even ran up to a couple of horses we met at the beach at the weekend, it was really cute but if she had been off-lead at the time she could have spooked the horses. One major problem we had with Kintra was jumping on people, unfortunately it ended up with us having to restrict her off-leash time while we tried to work on it, dont want that situation again. We take Keely to a puppy obedience/agility/socialisation class held outdoors at a farm, and a lot pet shop owned vet also holds puppy socialisation parties so we'll do that too once she stopped peeing - otherwise i would have to take a mop and bucket with me.

By the way, Bella's an absolute wee cutie. Sounds like she's making some great progress. got to say, although she's still a little intimidated when they sniff her, that's fantastic that she runs back to check in with you, i would use that to my full advantage. I tried really hard to train Kintra to do that, but unfortunately every dog, person, smell, blade of grass etc was far more interesting than me :0( lol