The latest Canine Good Citizen!


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We arrived far too early last night. I decided that instead of going inside the building and waiting for the other class to end that Dahlia and I would stay outside. She could wander around and sniff, explore a bit. It was just a really nice night so there was no reason to go in and disturb a class that really needs no more distractions. She ( Read more... )

Dahlia and I had our first Canine Good Citizen class last night. We're going to the local SPCA for the class. Our instructor, a woman named Danielle, seems very positive and upbeat. I was a bit worried as I heard her talking about people walking out the door in front of their dogs in the class before, which is usually a big part of dominance- ( Read more... )

Today was our last day of intermediate obedience class at Petsmart. David didn't come tonight because he has a big presentation to do tomorrow and so had to stay home to work ( Read more... )

Last night was our second to last class in Intermediate obedience. We're technically supposed to have 8 classes, but (1) one class got canceled due to our trainer's being out of town, (2) we each got one private lesson because the other person couldn't make it last week, and (3) we've all basically agreed we've gotten our money's worth. With only ( Read more... )

Class last night was...interesting. It didn't go so well, for the first time. It started with our discovering that Dahlia had stepped in some gum and gotten it worked into her paw pad pretty well. I'm guessing she stepped on it on the way into Petsmart and we didn't notice it right away. She was slinking around a bit so it was probably because ( Read more... )

We were back at obedience class again last night. We had a week off as our trainer was heading out for some sort of doggy camp thing that she does with her dogs. David was really exhausted last night and so opted to stay home on the couch. That meant Dahlia and I were on our own for the class ( Read more... )

I guess I haven't had much chance to post in the past couple days, but more on that reason soon ( Read more... )

Yesterday we had our second class of intermediate obedience class. Dahlia did amazingly well last class. After starting with "doggie aerobics" to get her in the working frame of mind, we went onto practicing "come ( Read more... )

So we're back at our obedience classes again. We decided to sign up and do intermediate obedience classes at Petsmart with the same instructor we had before. We really like Colleen. And Dahlia really likes her too ( Read more... )