Ok, need some insight / help with a new issue. Brody, our 5 year old male has all of a sudden deicded that he doesn't want to go outside first thing in the morning. For 5 years, every am we go and let them out of their kennels, they race to the door to go out. Over the past week he won't go out. He'll go out later in the day, just not then. This morning, DH let him out, I was upstairs, he started running up the stairs to go out, froze half-way up and would not come up. I put his leash on, he cam to the tope of the stairs and put on the brakes (laid down, would not move) the collar literally came off over his head. I picked him up, carried him out and everything was fine. Is this just a show of "Alpha Dog" any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks for the input all.