Very Helpful! Let me just clarify though. I don't want an attack dog by any means. I know i sound extremely selfish if I say it but, I want her to want my attention more than she wants anybody elses. For example, the other day we had to take her to the vet for her rabies vaccination. Imagine this...I'm walking into a waiting room with 3 other dogs in there. I have a 6 month old Golden who weighs 42 lbs (on a very short leash) and my 2 year old son following close behind. Its was like a tornado went through. I'm tring to keep Hana in line while making sure my son is following me. I felt like one of those women with like 6 kids in a Chuck E. Cheese. LOL. I want to be able to do these things and not have to keep pulling her back to me. making sure she's not trying to play with someone's sick pet or just getting into trouble.
I think we're making progress though because while we're outside and I have her on her 9meter training leash all I have to do is say her name and she comes running back to me. She is a very smart dog and learns things very quickly. So I don't expect it to take me too much longer to break these bad manners.
Thanks everyone! I really appreciate it!

I have a 3.5 year old and she was just 1.5 when we got our pup, so I COMPLETELY understand...and I have lived that same scene, over and over...and top it off with submissive urination, and that was my reality for many many months!

At the age of 6 months, you cannot expect her to have the type of impulse control nor obedience that you are. If you are not using treats, definitely add them to your arsenal and reward her for focusing on you. It will take a long time to develop obedience under distraction and that vet's office is a very high distraction, you can't expect her to be a calm little puppy there. Just keep a very wide berth and use rewards to bring her back. Teach her the LEAVE IT and LOOK commands. Once she is next to you put her in a down stay, step on the leash (keep it short so she can't pop all the way up) and keep dropping treats between her legs every 10 seconds or so to keep rewarding her for the down. Use very small, very smelly treats - we use Solid Gold Tiny Tots - they break into tiny little moist bits.

Also, the items I mentioned to you regarding more protective behavior are a far far far cry from a PPD or any real protection - read about them on this site and you'll see what I mean.

Final bit of advice - don't use her name as the COME command. They are best kept distinct. Name is a call to attention - then issue your command, such as Come. She may learn quickly, but she is young and with such a social girl, you will need a lot of distraction training after a command is learned.

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Then you can have someone (friend, neighbor) jiggle the doorknob and make noise like they are trying to break in.

For more realistic break-in noises, I recommend breaking glass and kicking or body slamming doors. Bashing concrete blocks into doors is also realistic, but you'll have to replace your door afterwards.

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Also, don't think that being social and friendly in public, on a leash neccessarily equates to being social and friendly to a midnight intruder.

That's for sure. I had a GSD that I originally got to train as a protection dog. I was still in high school and my parents didn't allow me to train her because my mother did a lot of babysitting. Instead we just raised her as a pet and she turned out to be the kind of dog that is friends with everyone.

One night however my mom was home by herself and a car drove up with several men in it. Two came to the door and wanted to use the telephone. Lady the dog who loved everyone she met was acting like she wanted to kill those two guys. She had never acted like that but this time she was barking and snapping with spit flying all over.

My mom offered to bring a cordless phone out but the guys insisted that they had to come in to use the phone. My mom finally told them to go down the road to a small town where there are more people. She also said she couldn't hold the dog any longer. They got out of there fast when she said that.

So just because a dog is friendly with everyone it meets doesn't mean it won't be protective if the need arises. Some will and some won't and the only way to tell is for the actual situation to come up.

Khris, the mutt, was like this. She would go to anyone to beg for pats and praise. I let this happen for a while but then called her and when she came, praised and petted her (a more valuable than praise and petting from a stranger or at least should be) and gave her a treat. With time she realized that strangers actually don´t have anything more than I give her and today just ignores most. I have done what we call socializing a dog insane that basically is socializing a dog so much that anything hardly takes her attention anymore. Takes alot of time but works very well