so sorry about all the dog problems you're having! on the kid note, i can TOTALLY relate! aiden (my oldest) is 3 now and is acting the same exact way. sadly, i have to admit, we've acted like we were going to "leave" aiden too. but he only refuses to get in the car seat and runs away from you, so we all get in and start the truck and put it in reverse and he's running to us before we even get 2ft back. cruel, i know, but he hasn't done it since the second time we did this. for the getting dressed, i've found that if he figures out that if he doesn't get dressed when you ask him to he won't get to go, he gets a lot more cooperative. for instance, if aiden refuses to get dressed, i'll say "ok, tristan let's go to the store and look at the fish" and aiden runs to get dressed. we don't always buy him something in the store though, only if he got dressed nicely, and was great in the store. then we buy him a small thing of craisins or something like that. never candy. thankfully, aiden now would prefer to have apples or bananas or something healthy than candy anyways. he'll even trade candy for asparagus ha ha (we have this one guy who works at wal mart that will just randomly hand a kid something instead of walking to the right part of the store to put it up) if your son is as stubborn as aiden, please let me know what works! we have tried time outs, popping him, taking toys away, etc. aiden will even throw fits and throw toys at you if he thinks he can get away with it!