Week 3

Oz jumped into the back of my SUV tonight, all on his own. Yeah!
I've been worrying about this, because he's really getting too
heavy for me to lift. I'm still lifting him down out of the car, but
that's a whole lot easier than lifting up.

Well we had problems with Sit tonight in class. The trainer said
we needed to regress back to step 1, which I guess we'll do,
but I think I may have figured out the problem. I think I'm bored
with Heel and Sit, hence he is too. I noticed tonight my voice
isn't as excited, when we're doing those. I compared that to how
I sounded, when we learned a new trick tonight in class, Twist,
where the dog turns in a circle. Oz got it like *that*, faster than
any other dog in the class, and I realized I sounded really
animated, when he did the trick. I also thought about the other
things he does really good, like Come and I always sound really
excited on that too.

So I'm gonna have to get excited about Heel and Sit and Stay
this week and see if that makes a difference.

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