Its been a while since my last post but things have been so busy. Lets think I've been real busy playing with Burnaby, sleeping, eating, getting into to trouble occasionally, and of course training. I went with Mom to a trainers round table about shaping. We should people who haven't used shaping how it works with clipping nails, teaching heel, and how to get dressed, which is me putting on my harness. I was wonderful and let two strange people cut my nails. At puppy class we had a scary night. Mom was to bring things that could possibly scare a dog. She brought a witches hat and big stuffed Tigger. Neither of these things bothered me. The other dogs moms also brought in strange things but I was brave and kept all of my attention on Mom, see the photo below. I even made a new friend that night. She is a doberman and she had some funny white stuff wrapped around her ears.
Last week at puppy class we practiced stays. Mom was walking pretty far away from me and at first I was a little confused and thought that I should follow her. I quickly learned I got treats for staying where I was. Then they started to add in some distractions. I could handle people and dogs but the tennis ball rolling past was just too much. After some practice I was better but its still really hard to sit still when I love tennis balls so much. Here is a video of me practicing stay while Ben and Cassie play
