Tug of war is Sam's favourite game, because his shake-until-dead insticts are pretty dominant (we gave up buying him stuffed toys pretty rapidly, he always ripped them to shreds in seconds). Fetch only works with him about two or three times in any given session, and then he just looks at me as if to say "what is the point of this? Get it yourself!" Or else chases it and then 'kills' it and drops it. We don't have a box for his toys - mostly because he preferred to bury them... but also because we managed to teach him 'I'm not playing right now' while the toys stayed out. He could play on his own that way.

'Find' was pretty handy to teach, particularly as we did it with a variety of toys, so now we can just say 'gimme the toy' and he'll go fetch one for us *g* Also he's a pretty intelligent dog and I enjoy making him think. Currently when I go up for a visit I'm trying to teach him to come and then walk around and sit right up against my left leg. Incredibly, he does remember the general principle between visits.