Tonight was Mason’s second obedience class. It was significantly more hectic with more dogs and more barking. Mason did admirably though. The tasks to work on this week were: eye contact, sit and down. He caught onto the eye contact thing after the first couple of tries. We showed the instructor how, no matter how far we back him up, he refuses to lay down now. She suggested moving forward, still applying pressure at his shoulder blades. It worked wonders, consistently too. Pretty soon as soon as we started bringing the treat to the ground he started to lay down, without flipping over onto his back! It was joyful. We got bored rather quickly though and so we went through his other tricks that he knows (sit, stay, look) and then just kind of observed the other people and dogs in our class. We are going to have to go buy more treats soon, Mason goes through a whole lot more than Midas did. She mentioned again that if we felt the class was moving too slowly, we could transfer to a more advanced level, which I am considering.

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