Hi All,
We had our last obdience class this week and we passed! Yay! I'm not for sure what we learned....lol. Its funny. I can get her to do the stuff at home and at the dog classes but I can't get her to do the stuff anywhere else. I must admit that I didn't work that hard with her. I picked a very busy time of year to do it. I'm going to keep on working with her and we have already signed up to do advance obedience. It will be awhile before that class starts so I should have plenty of time to work with Katie and fine tune what we have already learned. I loved doing the classes. It was fun to get out and do something with Katie. I didn't even realize that it was the last class. I was so disappointed when I found out. I had wanted to bring my camera to take pics of all the doggies. At the last class we got to do a little bit of agility stuff and that was pretty cool. I got Katie to do the hurdle thing which wasn't much of a jump for her she just walked over it...lol and then the amazing thing is I got her to go through the tunnel. I didn't think she would do it. It was funny! I had to do some coaxing but she finally did it. Then we put the 2 together and she did the jump and tunnel. Woo Hoo! A bit slow and awkward but she did it. I loved it when we got to the tunnel and I shout "Katie-Tunnel" , she starts in and gets her body about half way in and then stops like Uh Oh..where am I. I just said C'mon girl, you can do it and she hurried on through. We could sign up for that too, but I'm not for sure if her Akita ways are good for agility..lol....sometimes she will just stop and look around and poke about and look at me like Ok, I have had enough. When she does that we are through for the day...lol. She did have to embarrass me one last time in class. We were working on the "Now" command. This means she is suppose to come running to you very fast. This is not to be used very often and only for emergencies. I'm suppose to sound very strict when I give this command. We do use a special treat for this one so it wil help her learn to come faster. So I'm standing way at the other side of the room and try to use my very strictest voice (not) and holler "Katie-Now". Katie just comes slowly trotting and right in the middle she decides she has to visit all the other doggies first and give them a lick. Everyone was just laughing away. Needless to say she did not get the special treat. A nice piece of chicken. She didn't know I had it so I showed it to her and took her back and when we repeated the command she came running quick! Of course she knew I had the special treat that time. Silly girl!! I would highly recommend dog obdience classes to anyone. It is great to do something with your dog and it is also good socializing for you and your dog and hopefully you will both learn something..hehehe
Robin :)
