Three steps forward and one step back!

Last night Toby and I headed out to our obedience class. It was not a very good night for us. For one thing, my boss kept me until 6:00 p.m. when he knows I have class on Thursday nights. He just doesn't care if we have a life out side of work. All he cares about is $$$. Anyway, I was extremely rushed to get to class. I think Toby felt my frustration. Toby did great with the heeling and the down stay. However, last night the sit stay was a huge problem. I could not get Toby to remain in a seated position. He kept sliding into a down. I gave him several corrections but that did not get through to him. So Elizabeth tried to give him a correction. Well, I think that it became a battle of who was going to win and it wasn't going to be the instructor. What a pistol! A couple of my class members just turned and looked at me with astonishment on their faces. Man! Toby can be very stubborn! The instructor even tried to pick him up and put him in a down. Toby was not going to do it! No way in hell was he going to obey that command! Then when the instructor tried to grab his collar, Toby let out I huge scream! No! it did not hurt him. He was just being a brat! As some of you know Toby can really be a brat. I do have to be careful with Toby because one time in a different class he was really hurt. But last night he was not. I tried to give him a correction with the collar and pulled his hair a tad and he yelped. It did not hurt my baby! He was being a total brat! Anyway the night did end on a good note but man! What a dog! Just as I thought that we were back on track. Well we will see how his new agility class goes on Monday night. It will be a new class. We are still going to do obedience on Thursday night as well. I was hoping that Monday nights would be a nice reward for doing so well in his other classes. Now I am not so sure. I will let you all know how things go.