Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Dog Class


With this Halloween costume contest last Saturday, dog class is officially over .
Though we didn't win I have to admit this was kinda fun . It is really interesting how much Red likes doing this class every week.
I am convinced he absolutely knows when we are preparing to leave . So , like it or not, we are enrolled for next session in February. Hope he won't get too depressed until then

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Notso Fun


Saturday Red and I went to his last class (we will be starting another in February) This was a "fun match" which is a mock dog show event. We were given numbers and had to preform a series of turns , stopping and starting and a number of other tests.Then ,the whole class re- entered the judging area for the long sit stay and down stay tests . Of course Red could not sit and stay for longer that 30 seconds . Then real disaster struck . On the initial down stay command he went down but was up again in a few seconds. When I tried again he went down but rolled around on his back, his legs flailing at odd angles. By then I could not get him to go down .This all occurred in about 30 seconds (but seemed like 9 days) All the other dogs had been preforming admirably Lying and staying perfectly still but those directly near us were getting a little restless. Then the instructor said NUMBER 3 PLEASE MOVE YOUR DOG TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TEST AREA HE IS DISTRACTING THE OTHERS!!! I then told Red , oh great, now we are going to have to put on dunce caps and stand in the corner. Some things never change

Friday, October 12, 2007

Wednesday, October 10, 2007