More: She came to me as a rescue from Utah where ranchers had been using her for target practice. She was a very speedy little dog when I got her and a jumper, too! She needed months of training before she could be trusted not to run away. But she made the grade! After about six months of close training, she could run off-leash in the mountains and come back on the blast of a whistle. It was an amazing transformation in a dog that had been used to jumping over enclosures and just running away heedlessly.