Week One (oh how generic!)

Saturday and Sunday - Larry and I spent our mornings at the Medina Swarm WCR Rally Trial. Larry played on three Puppy level courses - and I mean played! Much bouncing (almost shoulder high. Lots of people commented on his vertical leap) and tail wagging, but very little heeling or paying attention. Obviously we haven't been training consistently, and I'm thinking there may be some adolescent brain freeze going on, since there were more than a few looks of "What ever are you talking about? I've never heard the word sit before in my life!" When he did sit, he would come around in front of me, so we've been doing a few too many of those recently. Due to the trial and other RL commitments, we didn't do any training either day.

To work on: sit and down at my side (right and left), finding heel position :-)

Monday - worked sitting on my left and on my right sides. No acknowledgment for a sit in front. I turned after each sit about 90° so he was behind me and lured with food. Also worked on brushing. Got a little further back before he turned, managed 15 strokes.

Tuesday - Conformation class. Very excited, bouncy, couldn't hold still for the first 20 minutes. Once he settled down, free stacked nicely.

To work on: stacking on table, making sure rear left foot stays back

Wednesday - Bath-a-thon with Patricia took up most of the evening. Larry thought the water was acid ... added to the "things to work on" list.

Thursday - rough day at work, too sore to even throw a toy

Friday - worked stack on table. Improvement? I don't know, it's not any worse at least ;)