Hi everyone

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I am hoping that I will gain some good friends and advice from the forum. I have a five month old border collie cross golden retriever bitch called Cocoa. She is beautiful girl but extremely hyper. I normally go for low energy type pups but on this occasion fell in love with her when I saw her at rescue kennels when she was three months old. She appeared relatively calm and displayed a lovely nature and I was totally fooled. She has been with us now for two months and its like a whirlwind. I know pups are hard work but I've never had one like her. She is walked twice a day (on the morning walk she gets free running time) and I spend lots of time with her, playing and doing training but it is still not enough. She digs up the garden, steals anything she can get and jumps over anyone who dares to come anywhere near her. I find it really hard to get her to focus on anything for more than a few seconds. She virtually never sleeps and I feel that we are constantly at her beck and call. I am looking to get her into obedience classes in January but in the interim anyone got any tips on what I could do to help burn off some of her energy. Have to say she is very loving and intelligent and has learnt sit, down and does understand stay but mostly chooses to ignore it. One exhausted puppy owner