Rockin Robbins posted about keeping the cutie on a leash to get a couple of tries at sinking the bad guys and it really helped me out. I can't remember the name of the post but he might be kind enough to re-post that.(hint hint):p I can try to explain it but his instuctions would be much better than mine. The gist of it is you can use your subs noise to bring the cutie back towards you then all stop and it will make another run at the DD.
You would be suprised how effective this is.