Sassy Has Class

Off to Classes this evening

Sassy has some issues with working in a room full of other people and dogs.  She's not particularly worried about the dogs and people but more the noise and commotion. She's a bit sensitive to loud and or harsh words.  Something we are in this class to work through.

We've been working on our articles and in 2 different training locations she is performing them as requested.  Tonight we plan on working on this exercise in a different training atmosphere.  Different building, different dogs, different trainers. Hopefully we'll be able to work through all these distractions. 

Last week at this same location, and the first time too, we had a couple of stumbling blocks.  Really very minor in comparison to what we've come up against in the past. Sassy loves to do retrieves. We were asked to put our dogs on a flexi lead, something new for Sassy, and practice retrieves.  We had a couple of run ins with the lead, once on her pick up where she turns behind the item, picks it up and heads back, the lead got wrapped under her little stubby tail.  Oops that's not right, she made it about half way back and decided she didn't like the feel of that and sat down.  Handler error!!  I should have hit the lock button as soon as I noticed the problem and not let the lead slide across her little butt.  A lesson for me.  Same exercise, one of the trainers walked up, stood a little off to the side and watched us.  Sassy thought she was there to say hello and was half way over to her before I could say uh uh.  Tried again, Sassy went part way out looked at the trainer then made the right choice and continued on to the dumbbell.  Excellent, exercise finished.

So hopefully this week we have the same success with our articles.