Thursday, June 07, 2007

Summer is here!

I guess we've reached the end of our nice, cool, rainy weather. It's been in the 90's the past few days and the mosquitos are now out in full force.
Last night was P3 test and Nemo did pretty great. He passed all the elements required to graduate, yay!! Some of them were tougher than I thought they would be. For the down stay he had to stay for two minutes while everyone in the class jogged in a circle right in front of him. Terri walked one foot in front of him squeeking a toy, and then rattling a treat bag and saying she has treats - brutal!!! Nemo stayed though! :)
He was really cute on his recall.. He had to come to me in between two dogs playing about 10 feet apart AND in the middle of them was a pile of toys, eek! So I took off running and called Nemo from about 30 feet away, he took off for me, but as he passed the toy pile he did a double take but kept running so he almost flipped over himself. He didn't stop though, and came right to me.
We worked more on his tolerance of being near other dogs. He's showing signs of improvement. I'm going to repeat P3 even though he passed, so that we can work on that issue and just make sure everything is solid before going on to beginner agility class.

2 comments:

Saint Lover said...

Summer is here in full force too! Unfortunately we didn't get too much of the rainy season this year. It is already getting dry here :(

Rossi2009 said...

Is P3 on Wednesdays? If so, you'll have Bessie in your class, so be prepared!!! :-)