| How about this? For the first five minutes or so, because she will be excited anyway, and less likely to listen ( remember she is still adjusting and bonding to you ) let 'er rip on a flexi lead... get the initial excitement over and done with, have fun. Then change leads and give the command to HEEL or SETTLE, or whatever you want, so she knows now is serious time, learning and behaving. Work with her changing directions, etc, for the next 10, 15 minutes, then change leads and commands again, saying something like, OKAY, Forward, whatever you want, so she knows she can be a bit more flexible in the heel position. I admit its not as easy with an already adult dog, but they absolutely can learn that its okay sometimes to be "easy " on the heel position , and other times, depending on the command, that you want her in the heeling position, even on a loose lead. Later you might not even want to bother changing leads but I think it could help to make it clearer for her in the early stages. I had a whole set of my own commands for my dogs, I often used to walk them this way, heeling when someone was coming towards us, or in certain situations, then " okay " at other times and places, allowing them to be looser-lead or even forward of me if they wanted, as long as they never pulled nor crossed over. When someone was coming towards us, or whatever, I gave the HEEL command and they slowed down and got back to the right spot. Some dogs were better at this than others of course. Good luck. | 
