[MontanaRott]

Well, we are back and all went great. We got there early and let him see the building and the area that class would be held in. Introduced him to the trainer and that went great. He walked right up to Erin and did his flirty, bouncey greeting.
We took cheese and smoked sausage, and that kept his focus pretty well. There were 5 other dogs in the class with him and for the first few minutes Phil kept him well off to the side. As the class progressed they moved closer and Stevie was fine. He showed ZERO aggression towards the other dogs and handlers.
He did show tons of interest in them and would have loved to have been able to go and sniff them.
He allowed Erin to use him for a couple of demonstrations and she was able to touch him on the head and side and he just grinned at her. When that happened I got weepy, it was such a big step for him to let someone just pat and touch him and not get tense.
Half way through he needed to settle and refocus, so Phil took him outside, let him walk around a bit and pee, and brought him back in and he went back to work and was fine for the rest of the class. His body language was totally relaxed during the class and his eyes stayed normal and did not get wild and stressed looking. Lots of panting but it was warm and he was very excited.
The last 2 weeks of class will be devoted to getting the dogs ready to pass the CGC and if Stevie does well with that we will try and put one on him.
He was actually like having a 4 month old puppy, more then an 8 year old adult in the class.
And he got a cheeseburger on the way home for being such a good boy.
Vista, I was not too sure where to put this, sorry if it should have been in chit chat!