Dino and Obedience

Hi Everyone!

I am going to do a running update on our boy Dino here until he is adopted. This will help interested families read more about him and for everyone else who is interested in watching how our little boy progresses.

Sunday April 29th was Dino's first obedience class. He was so excited when he first came out of the truck and wanted to run up to everyone and everything. I was a little suprised at how quickly he came under control. It was a small class with only two other dogs to distract him but a great start for Dino. We were working around another boxer and a papillon. In one class Dino was coming (even with the other dogs working around him), healing, sitting and doing a command called Place (a stay type command). Now none of these were perfect and he's far from trained but he proved to me today that he is a very smart little boy who really does want to please.

Today he got a chance to run around in our yard with one of our boxers and a 5 month old shep X pit puppy and he had a great time. Again he has no doggie manners and does not understand doggie language when he is told to back down. He just loves to play and doesn't understand that everyone else may not want to box to the full extent that boxers can box at. We did use this as a chance to work on his training and did many "comes" with him to get him out of the play when he started to play to rough.

I'm going to try and take some pictures of him in class later this week to post on the blog.