| Thanks guys. To be honest, I was surprised at the exercise at this stage (first night) of classes. Strange dogs, strange place - it was tough work to keep attention.
As I said - Parker only broke the one time. He made it through other dog breaks, people walking around him, handlers clapping, me walking down/around him and away again.... I was very proud of my pup. I knew his downstays were good - but this was better than I had hoped! I had never put him through so much.
But because of that, it was surprising that this was done on the first night - because I HADN'T done that before. It's nice that they trusted me that I had (I hadn't been with the club since the spring), but what if I or the others hadn't? I'm just glad we were up to the challenge. :D
Well - onwards, our homework is the finish and heeling closer. Our heel was pretty sloppy last night due to all of the new distractions, but we'll be better next week! ;)
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