What a show off!

Thursday night Toby and I went to our first obedience class. He was such a show off. He worked really well. The instructor had us leave our dogs and walk only as far as we thought our dogs could handle. Well, I turned my back to Toby and must have walked about 20 feet away from him. He did not move a muscle. When I called him he came straight to me. He did all of this in a some what strange place that was extremely noisy. Loud trucks, and trains echoed off of the buildings. A couple of times Toby did bark and growl at the noise but I was able to keep him in check. If only he could do this when we are on the agility field!

Tonight I met a couple of friends out at an agility field to work on some of the obstacles. When I did not direct Toby like he thought I should have he went nuts on me. He just gets very upset with me if I don't do what he wants. Man! I have created a monster! He worked really well with Dori. I can see that we need to work on becoming a team and be patient with each other. I think we are on the right path by taking obedience for a while!