Originally posted by CattleDogMom
As far as obediance classes, as I have said before, that's not really doable for us right now bwcause we are "money-challenged" but maybe someday. I am a person that researches and reads about something and then tries to do it myself to save money, rather than pay someone to do it, so I got "Dog Training For Dummies"
I'm like that too. I only took begginer's obedience because it seemed like it was a MUST. Everyone told me to go and I guess it seemed like a rule or something. Obedience didn't do anything for us except the fact that I learned that Kai doesn't like seeing other dogs run off leash when he's on leash. We didn't learn much from the $95 we spent. Kai had already knew everything before we went to obedience. And also, whenever I had a problem like not being able to get him to focus when he's around other dogs...they'd take him away and work with him. Shouldn't they be telling me how to work with him? Anyways...I think it could work out even if you don't ever go to obedience classes. I mean, it would be great to find a local class with great instructors that would know how to deal with Casey but then again, no one should know your dog better than you do. In our case, if we had never gone to obedience, Kai would be just the same.