Oh she gets exercise. I live a short drive to the dog park, we can even walk there but not in winter. She's getting a little better but still very possessive against other dogs, especially Sullivan and my sister's dog if we are at their house. If they step on her or run over her while playing, she suddenly goes from play to total off the handle defensive in a split second and runs them off, but then she's fine again a second later. With strange dogs at the dog park she is pretty well fine. If they run her over playing she'll bark at them and let them know "hey be careful" in no uncertain terms, but her reaction is like a normal dog, not a sudden switch.

She has a very similar temperament to my mom's cocker spaniel. She has a tendency to fly off the deep end like he does if she gets yelled at for something and then I try to reach for her. Like if I tell her sternly no chewing on something then I go to get her to put her in her kennel she may react very violently. My mom's dog will get so defensive he'll break skin if we try to get him to go outside and he doesn't want to then we go to get him to bring him outside (he doesn't like to go outside much, we suspect he may have a grass allergy but my mom hasn't gotten him tested). Neither dog has been abused. We've learned to live with it with Wallace and I know enough to let it go if Ellie starts to get to that point so its not like I've lost fingers or anything. Its just a concern of mine that she flies off the deep end so fast.

We had to pass on the January classes. We had a scare with her getting sick before registration for the last classes and the money went to the emergency vet. We never officially figured out why she got sick, but she's better now so we will sign up for the next classes that start in March. Its probably for the better anyway because its been so cold this winter that the winter classes have a few make up days because the dog club closed a few times. She already knows sit, stand, down, shake a paw, dance (spin in circle), come, front, wait, drop it. We're working on the over command for jumps.