UPDATE: Bit of a damper really, but not much. I understand we'll have a few off days. There were about 15-16 dogs there today, and he was just so over excited. We sat next to a snappy border collie, and a playful female GSD.
I tried to keep Ollie as close to me as possible away from the BC, but the owner of the BC just let her wander, and let her snap at Ollie. Bit annoying!!!
We tried to teach settle today, but that was hard due to the above info. So I gave up with that, and just let him be. When we were doing heelwork away from the dogs, he was great, really focused.
Did heelwork up and down, away from other dogs, down position by other dogs and ignoring them, and then recall from other dogs.
Again, had a bit of damper as we were doing "down stays" near the BC and GSD and he broke his stay after about 5 seconds, but did "down stay" away from the dogs, and he stayed for ages. He hardly sees any other dogs now apart from this class, as his doggy friend has a problem with her back legs and the owner won't do the operation to fix it, so he's not around other dogs regularly anymore.
Only been in this class for 3 weeks but there's been about two new dogs joining every week, and some of the original dogs weren't here today. When are they going to stop, when there's 50?!?!?!?! I have to say though that it is organised and we do all get our fair share of training, but only about half of the whole lesson time are we doing something.
