Sassy Girl

Sassy Girl PCD CGN

Who is only 3 and very shy is just starting to come out of her shell this past year. Though she truly does live up to her name of being a very Sassy Girl you would be hard pressed to see this in her in public. I guess she just saves the best of her for those of us closest to her at home.

Sassy did compete in the obedience ring this year and was able to obtain her Pre Companion Dog title. Sassy just loves to be right, and gets very upset if she does something wrong. We have been working very hard to overcome this obstacle as it’s most disheartening to have your dog just stop working when she knows she’s done something wrong. Lots of encouragement and treats have proved to help us with this little issue. We finally attended our first obedience class this last year and saw a great improvement in her attitude and workability over the previous year. Sassy loves her clicker and will do almost anything to get that little click (okay, okay it’s really the treat) but she is very enthusiastic when the clicker comes out. She has a huge repertoire of tricks and will gladly perform them anytime. We have been doing lots of higher level obedience training, even though we’re only trialing at the CD level. Sassy really likes her articles, especially when she gets to put them away at the end of practice. She will pick each one up and put it in the tote, wag her little stubby tail and go looking for another one to put away. Though Sassy can do the precision heeling required for Dressage and the tricks for Freestyle she objects to the loud music so we don’t compete in that sport. Agility isn’t really her thing either, after the second or third obstacle she stops and says that’s enough. We have been working on our Rally-O Novice title but if I hadn’t blown past a station last summer we would have had a first leg. Oh well, there’ll be another trial where I can hone my sign reading skills, or is that counting skills. Sassy has also passed her CGN (Canine Good Neighbour) test this past fall.

We’ve been having a lot of fun learning new skills (skateboarding is just the latest) and overcoming our shyness in public and I really look forward to many good times ahead with this little girl.