Annette4
Well-Known Member
Tia and Quila went to training last night.
Tia was in the puppy class and besides an incident with a slightly older lab puppy (nothing serious he just wanted to play like a lab and she was overwhelmed and squealed) she was fab and even started playing with some of the other younger puppies at the end. She already sits and downs and is pretty good at heel work but we did exercises around markers (so walk to heel to one cone then sit, walk in and out of cones then down etc) she even recalled like a pro with all the other puppies stood close round as a distraction.
Quila was then in the 'Naughty but Nice' class. It was a couple of shepards, a staffy type, pointer type and us. We did similar heelwork type exercises, walking past the other dogs and finished with some agility based exercises (walking over a board on the ground, front feet on a step then over it and a touch tile). Besides reacting with a bark when the others barked she was a star and we've already been invited into the normal agility class
We're going to one more naughty class then she'll be going to agility. I'm very proud of my scaredy dog. She was really good at focusing on me (all be it not for more than 30 seconds without a reminder) and ignoring the other, really unrulely in some cases, dogs.
Both were shattered when we got home and retired to the bed in the front room together to snooze off all the brain power usage.
Tia was in the puppy class and besides an incident with a slightly older lab puppy (nothing serious he just wanted to play like a lab and she was overwhelmed and squealed) she was fab and even started playing with some of the other younger puppies at the end. She already sits and downs and is pretty good at heel work but we did exercises around markers (so walk to heel to one cone then sit, walk in and out of cones then down etc) she even recalled like a pro with all the other puppies stood close round as a distraction.
Quila was then in the 'Naughty but Nice' class. It was a couple of shepards, a staffy type, pointer type and us. We did similar heelwork type exercises, walking past the other dogs and finished with some agility based exercises (walking over a board on the ground, front feet on a step then over it and a touch tile). Besides reacting with a bark when the others barked she was a star and we've already been invited into the normal agility class
We're going to one more naughty class then she'll be going to agility. I'm very proud of my scaredy dog. She was really good at focusing on me (all be it not for more than 30 seconds without a reminder) and ignoring the other, really unrulely in some cases, dogs. Both were shattered when we got home and retired to the bed in the front room together to snooze off all the brain power usage.