School for Charlie

Tonight is mine and Charlie's first officical class using clicker training. It is a class for reactive/shy dogs which I'm calling remedial manners. There are only 3 dogs in class to allow for a lot of space between dogs. Charlie is a really good boy and has quite a bit of basic training under his collar. He has become reactive on a leash when he sees other dogs, but is otherwise well behaved while out and about. Since we travel with the dogs, this needs to be brought under control sooner rather than later. I'm a bit nervous, but we've done all of our homework, and then some. Our homework included nose touches to fingers and eye contact which has shown improvement over the last week. We're going to go on two walks before class to try to wear him down a bit so he doesn't go in so wound up.