Funny, they are both being total angels now...
This isn't just bad day stuff, it's been going on for about a week. I tried luring her down, we always use hand signals, and though I'm not sure how Aaron did the training initially (before we met) she's always been really solid on sit and down. Stay has always been a bit tougher with her, but having Ghost really helped a lot. I really think it was Aaron trying to teach the speak command. She does not get it, and he sits there telling her to speak for 10-15 minutes before he gives her her food. His grandfather passed away yesterday, so he met up with his parents and left town. She is being really clingy and sweet (my brother is visiting and loves her despite being afraid to pet her), but she did pee all over the place last night when my brother, best friend, and I walked back in the door without Aaron. I was trying to show my brother how to pet her without her peeing and she lost it.
Stephanie, I like the "oops" idea a lot, and will start incorporating that. When she wasn't getting it this morning, I ran through a little series of tricks with Ghost and then let Ghost eat in front of Lulu. I don't know if that was necessarily the right approach, but she saw that Ghost got rewarded for doing what I asked. I tried a few more times and gave up out of frustration and being tired. Yep, Lulu -1, me - 0.
Manuel, the reason for not repeating things like sit and down, while you can repeat stay is that you want the dog to obey immediately and not get the idea that it can do what you ask on it's terms instead of yours. With things like stay, you can keep saying it to reinforce that you need them to keep doing what you've told, but you're supposed to work on saying it less and less. This is what our trainer at Petsmart told us anyway. I'm really hoping that when my neighbor moves the cats will go too, since he's the one feeding them. I also plan on redoing some training with her on a long lead when I can walk without crutches again. Hopefully that will only be a few more days, I got cleared to start easing into weight bearing on Thursday. Happy birthday me, I can walk!