I can't believe that it is Friday already. At least it is my Friday. For me Thursday is the last working day of the week and My brain just wants to shut down. I will first try and give you all an update on the Tobesters.
Tuesday night class was a little tough this week. Toby just doesn't like to drop. I was having a very hard time getting him into the drop position. I was really struggling with it. The instructor came over to help. She was showing me that I needed to push or as she said punch him down into the drop at his neck. Toby did not like that. He yelped and from what she said tried to bite her. I would like to think that Toby was just being a brat. But he could have been hurt also. When he is being a brat he will yelp like you have hurt him when in fact you did not. But if he turns and nips at you you did hurt him. I just hope that this is not going to make it hard for him to pass this class. Absolutely not aggressive dogs will be allowed to move on. Now Toby is not aggressive but did this incident give the impression that he could be aggressive. I sure hope not.
The rest of the class went very well. His stays are getting really good. The instructor used a squeaky ball for distraction. The squeaky caught Toby's attention but He only likes to play squeaky ball in the house. We were good to go there!
Tonight we had to miss out basic obedience class. I had a dinner that I had to attend for work. So nothing new to speak of with the Thursday night class. Hopefully I will have a lot of time to catch everyone up on Toby's training next week.
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I heard Toby yelp all the way down at the end where I was. He was hurt. I would not recommend doing that to him again... Just keep working on the drop. He will get it. Toby is a smart boy!
Yes, please don't do that to him again or let the instructor do it. That was him hurting, and no he isn't being aggressive, I'd have tried to bite someone that did that to me too!
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