Puppy Class

Fly is by far the youngest puppy. She did good at sit, stand, and down. We played targeting while other things were happening to keep her focused on me. We played watch me too. She picked up heeling. It is a long way down to her to keep treat in front. She did great recalls right to me like a bullet. In class they were using food as a reward and she wanted the toy in my back pocket instead. Lots of dogs went right by their owner to the people around, Fly stuck to me! I introduced her to "Leave it" - chicken on the plate and she wanted it. Instead of going nose first to the plate she tried to pounce on it. We will work on leave it. I worked on proofing her stay in the kennel with the door open. It was going great until Susan got up at the end and was so excited and finished with "You did great!" in a very excited happy voice and Fly flew out of the kennel right to her. It got a laugh and we need to work on the kennel a bit more. But Fly did well with other dogs running around in front and waiting to be released.