Wednesday night equals....

Puppy School and free movie Wednesday (that will be in a second post). Per any normal Wednesday night we were off to puppy school again...if you will remember back we had a week off, therefore, it has been 2 weeks since class. What does that mean? Well it means Winston should totally rock at all his tricks. Did he? Hum....a few yes, but he is still so social.

This week was great though because Chris was here for class. He missed the last one due to a work trip. He really got a first hand sight of what I meant by Mr. Social Butterfly. We warmed up great, but he wants to lay when we do the sit signal. I just don't get it, I mean really sit seems much easier. Heck who knows, but when you signal to sit, plop down to a lay he goes. That is our current issue.

WEEK #3 Tricks:

• Lay down- but with the signal higher up, rather than touching the ground


• Leave it- teaching them to leave something they should not get


• Drop it- have them drop what ever wonderful "surprise" they have in their mouth


• Give it- more for when you are playing fetch, or if they have something they shouldn't that you don't mind touching


• Loose Leash Walk- walking along, dropping "cookies" to teach them to stay close and not want to smell EVERYTHING when on a walk

Of course you still have to practice the other tricks from past weeks....but we are going to fix this sit lay mess. My goal is to have him siting at the correct signal by next week. Then working on the lay. However, the classes are really helping. He does much better at class as far as being social. He does not bark as much, and really loves his friends. When we get to Petsmart he gets all excited. Then when he sees his classmates he doesn't growl, he just runs up and licks them. Tonight we did a fun little activity of pass the pet. I think Winston loved it, well loved the attention any way. You simply pass your dog to your neighbor. Once you get the new dog you love all over it, petting it, talking to it, and just giving it tons of attention. Then we switch again...by the end everyone has had each others pets. Winston really did enjoy it, and it was fun to see which dogs didn't mind. All of our dogs but one, SPIKE, loved it. Spike is a little less social. He tends to only want his mommy. Well off to train for next week. By the end of this Winston will be able to do all the tricks and not be so darn social, or so I hope.