3GSDMom
02-20-2008, 02:39 PM
Last night I sent an Agility trainer [among other things] an email. She's located 15-20mins away from me and from what I hear [from a friend of mine who attends her classes ;P ] she is excellent.
Anyway, I sent her an email describing, in brief, my problem with Travis. How I feel he is not ready to be in a Class but we still want to start our Agility training.
She wrote me back this morning and not only does she offer Private classes, she also said that we could work through his problems with other dogs! Seriously, Im SO happy to hear that. I've been working on his problem for a LONG time and slowly but surely he's been improving. It'll just be nice to get some help from a professional ;]
Heh, I couldnt help but laugh when I read her email. It said something to the extent of "Ah, yes a 2 year old GSD who knows better than mom" and then went on to describe how she rescued her own GSD who is now her companion.
She invited me to stop by tonight. If all goes well we will be going :D
The main reason I got Travis was because I wanted an Agility dog. Now, almost three years later we're starting :D
I'm unbelievably excited about this.
And for anyone curious as to what 'problems' Trav has,
Travis, due to fault on my part when he was a puppy =/ , has a problem with other dogs. He doesnt bite or try to attack or anything, he just barks his head off. We've been working through it and have taken OB classes at Petsmart [just for socialization] and those classes really helped him. Now, I've been taking him to Petsmart and Petco almost weekly to work through the problem. He's really coming along. I give the 'leave it' command and he'll ignore the other dogs. He occassionaly still has slip ups where he'll bark but my approach is correct and redirect ;]
Anyway, I sent her an email describing, in brief, my problem with Travis. How I feel he is not ready to be in a Class but we still want to start our Agility training.
She wrote me back this morning and not only does she offer Private classes, she also said that we could work through his problems with other dogs! Seriously, Im SO happy to hear that. I've been working on his problem for a LONG time and slowly but surely he's been improving. It'll just be nice to get some help from a professional ;]
Heh, I couldnt help but laugh when I read her email. It said something to the extent of "Ah, yes a 2 year old GSD who knows better than mom" and then went on to describe how she rescued her own GSD who is now her companion.
She invited me to stop by tonight. If all goes well we will be going :D
The main reason I got Travis was because I wanted an Agility dog. Now, almost three years later we're starting :D
I'm unbelievably excited about this.
And for anyone curious as to what 'problems' Trav has,
Travis, due to fault on my part when he was a puppy =/ , has a problem with other dogs. He doesnt bite or try to attack or anything, he just barks his head off. We've been working through it and have taken OB classes at Petsmart [just for socialization] and those classes really helped him. Now, I've been taking him to Petsmart and Petco almost weekly to work through the problem. He's really coming along. I give the 'leave it' command and he'll ignore the other dogs. He occassionaly still has slip ups where he'll bark but my approach is correct and redirect ;]