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A little background info before I start. Riley is 7 months old while Apollo is 1 year 3 months. Apollo had no training from his previous owners. Just from me. Riley I've been training since I got him. Not as much as I should but he's good. When I try to work with both of them my 7 month old Riley is literally a pain in the A! Even though he's younger than Apollo he is the dominant one. So when I'm working with Apollo and my fiancée is holding Riley, Riley is trying to get to Apollo like a mad dog. He whines like a little baby. Apollo does excellent when they're both together so he's not the issue. When I took them to work with the dog trainer the other day even she said he's pretty bad around Apollo. She had got to work with Riley the a few days before and he did excellent without Apollo there. Yesterday I took only Riley out first to play fetch with a water bottle. He did EXCELLENT. He waits until I say go. I even had a 4 minute phone conversation with my mom and I made him wait the entire time. He did it no problem. Now, If I would have had Apollo out there he wouldn't have listened to me at all. He would have been up Apollo's butt the entire time. I guess what I'm asking is how do I get Riley to focus on me even while his best buddy Apollo is around? I haven't got that far with my trainer yet.