Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Class Last Night - Comedy Night????

What a silly boy. First of all, NO barking tonight. Nada, zero, zilch!!!!! We've been rotating locations in the room, and I was a bit worried. Tonight was our night to have the large plate glass windows behind us, and the other dogs in front of us. This is REALLY hard for Charlie. He did really well, but got stressed part way through class. Our school uses those nasty plastic chairs with holes in the backs like we used to have in jr. high. Normally, I put the towel (matt), toy, squeeze cheese, and squeeze cheese lid on the chair. I did the same thing last night. However, upon getting stressed, Charlie poked his head through the hole in the chair and grabbed the tug toy. We played for a bit, and I put it back saying "leave it". Not five minutes later, he did it again. I had to put that nasty slobbery thing up the back of my shirt to keep him from steeling it. Of course, both times this happened, everybody (including Alena) laughed. Lots of encouragement for this little guy. So, after we practiced our matt behavior and I had folded up the towel and put it back on the chair. What he'd do? Of course, he tried to put it back on the floor - guess he wanted to practice more on that. Again, everyone laughed. He stole the cap to the squeeze cheese at least 2 times as well, again to giggles. What a silly goose! Anyway, he actually exceeded my expectations in class, and a good time was had by all. Not a bad night. We've now added criteria to the matt, but really shaping the down on the matt. In addition, we added an emergency rescue call. Now I have to come up with a word!!!!

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