Riot went to his first mixed Advanced/Excellent level class tonight!
He did amazing!! There is a station that you have to do after every run called "honour" and you have to sit the dog in the middle of the room and have them sit, stand, or down while the next dog goes through the course. Your dog isn't allowed to switch positions, get up and move around. They have to stay still. If your dog does this, then he passes the whole course!
Riot did it today and he was just a doll about it! He had people whipping leashes over top of him, someone dropped their chair and it made a huge crash. Riot stared over at it but didn't get up or move his butt at all!
I was so happy with my little monster!
His back looks like its healed up properly as well wahoo! My vet tech friend checked him out and said that it looks like he just had a reaction to something. I've been racking my brain to try and think from what but couldn't think of anything.. so we'll see I guess lol
Anyways, Riot was SOO excited to get there, he was basically in ADD mode for the first 5 minutes until i started to do some work with him.
Today was the first time since the beginning of the summer that I used treats as a bait for him in this type of situation and he was OVER gung hoe for them lol He'd OVER heel or OVER sit lol At least he was trying.
On his second run he was just perfect!!
I couldn't have asked for a better boy! His heels were nice and close, he had consistant eye contact with me when we were heeling. Ahh he was just such a good boy!
and then when we came out of class.. There is a grassy patch for the dogs to "go" on afterwards so I brought Riot out and my mom was already out there with Jada(we have class together so we basically compete with each other in class haha), anyways there was a lady out there with an older Golden and an Aussie puppy maybe 6 or 7 months old.
BOTH of this ladys dogs had NO manners.. they were pulling at the end of the leash, barking consistantly(the aussie was)...
Anyways, she ended up letting the Aussie puppy loose - can you imagine that! LOOSE there is a busy road that the school is based on!!
Anyways, it comes CHARGING up to Riot - obviously it was very friendly but first off it was a male - Riot is working on his male aggresion - this DIDNT help..
secondly it was a young puppy - Riot isn't fond of young puppies, but will deal with them if they have manners and will then play with them..
So the thing is jumping all over Riot.. Riot is trying to get away from it letting out nasty snarls warning it. I grab Riot by the collar so he can't "do" anything to the dog and yell at the idiot who let the thing go.
I told her to grab her dog right now b/c its mauling my dog. She comes over and grabs her puppy and says "come on, lets go somewhere where its friendlier"..
i'm thinking.. you are a 100% moron.. firstly - it was pitch black out and only street lights were on..
They are BOTH males
she doesn't know my dog
etc etc etc
Wow some people are truely idiots.
I spoke to a few other people that were outsdie about this incident and every single one of them told me that the lady unleashed that dog around their dogs as well, one person now has a dog aggresive dog b/c of that puppy. It just has NO manners..
I wouldn't mind and I know Riot would have at least tolerated it if the dog walked up to Riot slowly and showed respect to him instead of jumping all over him.
I'm sure it didn't help Riots back either after hes getting over those bumps and scabs.
Gah.. some people are idiots..
He did amazing!! There is a station that you have to do after every run called "honour" and you have to sit the dog in the middle of the room and have them sit, stand, or down while the next dog goes through the course. Your dog isn't allowed to switch positions, get up and move around. They have to stay still. If your dog does this, then he passes the whole course!
Riot did it today and he was just a doll about it! He had people whipping leashes over top of him, someone dropped their chair and it made a huge crash. Riot stared over at it but didn't get up or move his butt at all!
I was so happy with my little monster!His back looks like its healed up properly as well wahoo! My vet tech friend checked him out and said that it looks like he just had a reaction to something. I've been racking my brain to try and think from what but couldn't think of anything.. so we'll see I guess lol
Anyways, Riot was SOO excited to get there, he was basically in ADD mode for the first 5 minutes until i started to do some work with him.
Today was the first time since the beginning of the summer that I used treats as a bait for him in this type of situation and he was OVER gung hoe for them lol He'd OVER heel or OVER sit lol At least he was trying.
On his second run he was just perfect!!
I couldn't have asked for a better boy! His heels were nice and close, he had consistant eye contact with me when we were heeling. Ahh he was just such a good boy!
and then when we came out of class.. There is a grassy patch for the dogs to "go" on afterwards so I brought Riot out and my mom was already out there with Jada(we have class together so we basically compete with each other in class haha), anyways there was a lady out there with an older Golden and an Aussie puppy maybe 6 or 7 months old.
BOTH of this ladys dogs had NO manners.. they were pulling at the end of the leash, barking consistantly(the aussie was)...
Anyways, she ended up letting the Aussie puppy loose - can you imagine that! LOOSE there is a busy road that the school is based on!!
Anyways, it comes CHARGING up to Riot - obviously it was very friendly but first off it was a male - Riot is working on his male aggresion - this DIDNT help..
secondly it was a young puppy - Riot isn't fond of young puppies, but will deal with them if they have manners and will then play with them..
So the thing is jumping all over Riot.. Riot is trying to get away from it letting out nasty snarls warning it. I grab Riot by the collar so he can't "do" anything to the dog and yell at the idiot who let the thing go.
I told her to grab her dog right now b/c its mauling my dog. She comes over and grabs her puppy and says "come on, lets go somewhere where its friendlier"..
i'm thinking.. you are a 100% moron.. firstly - it was pitch black out and only street lights were on..
They are BOTH males
she doesn't know my dog
etc etc etc
Wow some people are truely idiots.
I spoke to a few other people that were outsdie about this incident and every single one of them told me that the lady unleashed that dog around their dogs as well, one person now has a dog aggresive dog b/c of that puppy. It just has NO manners..
I wouldn't mind and I know Riot would have at least tolerated it if the dog walked up to Riot slowly and showed respect to him instead of jumping all over him.
I'm sure it didn't help Riots back either after hes getting over those bumps and scabs.
Gah.. some people are idiots..
