Great Class

Tonight Toby and I Headed out to DDS for our Tuesday night class. It was a great class. I was so afraid that we would be yelled at for not knowing our stuff. Wow! was I in for a pleasant surprise! Some how I managed to get Toby to play with a toy in class. I guess it was the yummy treat that I placed inside of the snakes head. What ever works. We worked on the drop command. Toby is getting better with that one. We worked on the down and settle. Toby has been doing the down and settle for some time now. The instructor wants me to use only one word; however, Saying down and then settle works great for us. So unless it becomes a big issue I am just not going to worry about it. When we were working on the long line I had a little mishap. Toby was doing so well but I did not notice that his line was caught on a piece of equipment. As Toby was running straight for me he got a huge correction from the line being caught. The instructor had me doing the exercise over again to make sure Toby did not think that this was a real correction. Toby was very hesitant but came to me. I will have to work with Toby on the long line this week to make sure that this doesn't work negatively on him. Any way as we were leaving the instructor complimented me and Toby on our Toy drive. She was impressed that we had come so for in just one week. Well she thinks it had been one week, I did not tell her that I have been working on this for some time now. Oh Well! at least Toby is starting to like his toys outside of the house.