arasara
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OOOH a whole discussion and I missed it!!
Miss Kodee is looking very cute with her green shake to death dog.
We have a shake to death dog (different kind) and so far it's only sustained a hole in his rear end. I consider it to be lucky, LOL
Kodee is sure a beautiful little thing. She captured my heart. It was so nice to meet you on Saturday Debbie. Faith will do anything for cookies, LOL. Leave it is going to be a really hard command for her I can already see that.
OK as for the discussions ~ Kosmo is in a class at 10AM with 10 dogs in total. There are 5 labs, 1 golden doodle, 1 beagle, 1 schnauzer (barky I call him), 1 small little teacup something mix, and then Kosmo. So 4 on the smaller side and 6 on the bigger side. This is an advanced class where we play a lot of games and there isn't too much learning outside of preparing for your CGC and TDI tests which are more of a review so this class is more a "fun" thing. That's the reason for so many dogs. I think they top out around 6 in beginner/puppy and intermediate. As far as Kosmo's class goes - it's LOUD@! The labs are always barking at each other and causing trouble. I don't mind the noise because I think it makes Kosmo more sociable and less scared. When I first took him to class if he heard another dog bark he would FREAK out and run under the chair. Now he looks at me like "PLEASE, make them SHUT UP!" lol
Faith's class has 5 puppies in it. It's a lot smaller and quieter but I think it's because there's a lot less dogs in it. There are a LOT of distractions from customers and passerbys plus we do a lot of "work" in the store. I personally have to say that I like this set up. Not because it's the most easy for me, but it teaches Faith and Kosmo to focus on me and ignore the distractions. This is particularly useful for situations where we're not in class and we're out and about. Also, the point of class is just to teach you what to do. Stuff is worked on in class, but it's important to go over those things taught in class throughout the week several times on your own to make sure they get it. Faith would have never learned to lay down just in our "class time" I had to work on it quite a few different times and even still I can't get her to do it without treats, lol.
Linda -
That's such a funny story about Darby. He's such a character. I think I would have paid money to watch Darby spit out a treat (he is just like Faith who would never spit out anything even if her life depended on it!) :yikes :flwr:
Debbie - I still want you to consider coming to class with me and faith for intermediate providing thigns work out. If you want you can even meet me at my house and i can take you from taunton and salem to petsmart in pickering. What do you think?! 2 cavaliers nad 2 people that know each other and can work together during the week! :flwr:
Miss Kodee is looking very cute with her green shake to death dog.
We have a shake to death dog (different kind) and so far it's only sustained a hole in his rear end. I consider it to be lucky, LOL Kodee is sure a beautiful little thing. She captured my heart.
It was so nice to meet you on Saturday Debbie. Faith will do anything for cookies, LOL. Leave it is going to be a really hard command for her I can already see that. OK as for the discussions ~ Kosmo is in a class at 10AM with 10 dogs in total. There are 5 labs, 1 golden doodle, 1 beagle, 1 schnauzer (barky I call him), 1 small little teacup something mix, and then Kosmo. So 4 on the smaller side and 6 on the bigger side. This is an advanced class where we play a lot of games and there isn't too much learning outside of preparing for your CGC and TDI tests which are more of a review so this class is more a "fun" thing. That's the reason for so many dogs. I think they top out around 6 in beginner/puppy and intermediate. As far as Kosmo's class goes - it's LOUD@! The labs are always barking at each other and causing trouble. I don't mind the noise because I think it makes Kosmo more sociable and less scared. When I first took him to class if he heard another dog bark he would FREAK out and run under the chair. Now he looks at me like "PLEASE, make them SHUT UP!" lol
Faith's class has 5 puppies in it. It's a lot smaller and quieter but I think it's because there's a lot less dogs in it. There are a LOT of distractions from customers and passerbys plus we do a lot of "work" in the store. I personally have to say that I like this set up. Not because it's the most easy for me, but it teaches Faith and Kosmo to focus on me and ignore the distractions. This is particularly useful for situations where we're not in class and we're out and about. Also, the point of class is just to teach you what to do. Stuff is worked on in class, but it's important to go over those things taught in class throughout the week several times on your own to make sure they get it. Faith would have never learned to lay down just in our "class time" I had to work on it quite a few different times and even still I can't get her to do it without treats, lol.
Linda -
That's such a funny story about Darby. He's such a character.
I think I would have paid money to watch Darby spit out a treat (he is just like Faith who would never spit out anything even if her life depended on it!) :yikes :flwr: Debbie - I still want you to consider coming to class with me and faith for intermediate providing thigns work out.
If you want you can even meet me at my house and i can take you from taunton and salem to petsmart in pickering. What do you think?! 2 cavaliers nad 2 people that know each other and can work together during the week! :flwr: 
