Class Night #7

Tonight was Class 7 of 8, and it went very well.  We had to demonstrate what we_'ve learned...and if you know me I like going first.  Well tonight I had to wait to go last.  First there was a schnauzer, she won't sit..and that is the first thing we learned at class 1.  Next was a little white dog, she was able to do all things that were learned but it took awhile.  Then there was Zoey (some for big beagle), she wouldn't lay.

The time has come, it was my turn to show off.  I love showing off, especially when it's something I'm good at...teehee.  Anyways, mom took me to the middle of the room, dropped my leash, did the sit command, I sat.  Then she did the stay command and I stayed, then she did the lay command and I layed down, then she told me "up" and I sat up...she put her hand down signaling me to give her my left paw...I did, then she wanted my right paw..gave that...then I got my treat.  We got applauded for our actions and that made mom very happy.  She's been working with me everynight and different times through ou the day.

After we did that, we all had to go out in the store and do our commands out there with distractions.  I was able to do with no problems.  Then we headed over to the treat isle....Oh boy is my nose ever sniffing!!  At first I didn't want to listen but then I soon knew it was business.  We had to do the sit, lay command follow by stay for about 30 seconds.  Not a problem in the world for me.  Once we got through this, we were done for the night.

Oh and one more thing...the commands are not vocal....it's all hand signals, which is cool.  That way if I ever go deaf, at least I'd be able to resond.

After we were done with class, we headed over to the Garchinsky's.  Mom has friends that live close to Petsmart...actually closer than what she thought.  Mom and Janet met in college at Lehigh County Community College, they both played on the volleyball team...she told me about the tough loss of state finals.  Anyways, they've been friends for over 17 years now.  Almost 11 years ago, Janet got married and mom was their wedding.  They get together as much as they can, they gone skiing in the past, and a couple of years ago they introduced her to kayaking.

Once we got to Janet and Chris's house, we were greeted by their dogs chilly and twister...then I got to meet Carly, she's their 1 1/2 old daughter....soon meeting Maria who is 2 months old.  I wanted to play with chilly and twister but they didn't want to....I think they were afraid of me.  Well soon we were on the road.  Here we went to DairyQueen....YUMMO"S!!  I had vanilla ice creajm....now that hit the spot!!  After I was done eating ice cream, I got very curious in all these ducks that were around.  They were swimming in the creek, but you could feed them corn!!  Mom would have taken me up to the ducks, but there were people there and she didn't want to cause a fuss...so I just watched them very closely.

Thank you for all of our concnerns and thoughtfullness last week.  Mom is better, she's not shaking anymore....she didn't shake until we got home...think it's because it all hit her at that moment.

So until next time...high paw five!!

Abby Dabby Dooooo!!!!!