Stop your dog from running away from you in your yard

While we love dogs, they can do some things that make living with them VERY difficult - chief among those things is running away from you in the backyard / not coming in until they want to.
Someone recently asked about this in the AWDT training forum and I know there are tons of you struggling with dogs who like to turn coming inside into a game of running away from you until you give up and leave the dog alone until you do what you want.
Like many things in dog training and in life, this behavior is simply a bad pattern that has turned into a habit that needs to be replaced with a new pattern that then needs to become a more preferable habit.
Dogs who run away from you or don’t want to come inside usually do so for a simple reason: they want to be outside when you want them to be inside and they know they are way faster than you and it is hilarious to them when you try to chase them around the yard.
Fixing this is counter-intuitive in many respects - everything we humans naturally want to do in this situation is wrong: get angry, yell, chase the dog, punish the dog if we somehow manage to catch them. All of this will take you deeper into the cycle where the dog might let you get within a foot or two, but stays just outside of your reach and turns it into a game for them and a nightmare for you.
The solution is simple - a long line and a game of catch and release. This changes the pattern for your dog in that they now associate getting “caught” with love, perhaps food, and going to back to their state of freedom.
This doesn’t change in one ten-minute session. I will be doing this every day until the jump away/run away reflex is gone.
New patterns will create a new relationship with your dog!