[Love Sophia]

Everytime I walk, my puppy is right behind me chewing on my pant legs. If I have a toy nearby, I will replace my pant leg with the toy. But when I start to walk again, she becomes more interested in my leg than the toy. Ignoring her and looking away only works 30% of the time. One time, I stood there for over 3 minutes to test if she would stop but to no avail.
I have taught her to follow me around as I like to supervise her and am wanting to tether her to me when I am at home. However, if I can't get this behaviour to stop, I don't know if I want to start doing that! Also, she was doing well at letting me walk through door ways and walking behind me. Now, she walks in front of me and is usually the first one through a door way. I am trying really hard to make sure she understands that I am the leader/boss and not her. Any ideas are welcome and very much appreciated!

 

[Marsh Muppet]

With some extremely persistent pups/dogs, you will be better off anchoring her and ignoring her while standing beyond her reach. I strategically screw eye bolts and cleats to the walls (where a pup can't gnaw on wood molding and drywall, or tear up carpet) and short-line her to that. I prefer that for "timeouts", as well, since there's no chance of the pup developing a negative association with the crate.