My First Puppy Class

I started puppy class tonight. This is Bridgett. She is the trainer of our class. She is smart, patient and very nice. Best of all... She likes me.

Tonight we worked on sit, walking nicely on a leash, heel as a position and eye contact with distraction. I have wonderful eye contact and a pretty good "leave it" - even when there are tasty Cheerios on the floor.

We have both puppy and beginner level dogs in the class. The puppies (me and a really cute Rotty) were supposed to be walking nicely on a leash and the beginner dogs (two Boxers and a White German Shepherd) were learning to heel. I love to do attention heeling. As we were doing our attention heeling our trainer, Bridgett, asked why were taking the class.

Mommy explained that we were taking the class for socialization, added distractions and structure. I guess when you are a working mom of 5 dogs you need a formal class to help keep puppy training structured. I am looking forward to the next several weeks to see how much I can learn.