Wow!

Dexter is really impressing me lately. Last night I split Mary's class between Panic and him, since we won't be able to attend his class tonight.

He did *AWESOME*. I am really so proud of him. The standard course, he had good contacts (was a little hesitant on the DW with a tunnel under the up ramp, so I must make sure to practice that!), a KILLER table, and decent speed. He didn't have great poles, but they were right by the ring gates, and I think he was a little distracted by the people/dogs right outside of them.

In Jumpers, he really did great too. He is getting into tugging on his leash, which is fantastic as it's always with us and can go into the ring! It really gets his attitude up.

I really, really, can't wait until his trial in October :) I know I'm totally jinxing us and we'll probably end up doing terribly, but hopefully it will be fun no matter what!!

Dexter is improving, and Spry

First off.... we have a new doggie :) Her name is Spry. She is some sort of staffy or staffy mix type dog. She's about 6 months old, very cute, very cuddly and lovable, and also very smart. Dexter is SURE we got her for him to play with, which is awesome. They get along really, really well. We've had her for two weeks as of today, and she really fits in great at our house.

Dexter had another class last night. First, I practiced a std course out at Mary Klein's. It went GREAT. There was one part we edited to make easier for him, but he stayed motivated and happy :) Class at BRAG went much better too! He was actually paying attention to me, and although I know he can still go faster, was decently quick. I don't feel like an idiot for entering the CABTC trial! Woohoo!

Hormones... fun...

Last night was *not* Dexter's best... by any stretch of the imagination! We had our BRAG class, and I also tried to run him on a standard course at Mary's, since we have the trial coming up in a month. Well, he was being uber obnoxious to begin with... for the prior 24 hours, he had just been making these ridiculous whining noises (what he considers to be his sexy noises) at Panic. Now, not *one* female has *actually* found these noises to be sexy, but he persists anyway. He has never tried to woo Panic before, and needless to say, his attempts were fruitless and resulted in her trying to ignore him, and eventually telling him off. So, that was weird. Then, at Mary's class, he was being super neurotic. Between whining like that at Neat, and just trembling all over with excitement, etc.... just being a big weirdo! So I started him on the course, and actually he was doing *great*! But then we came to a tunnel/Aframe discrim, and he had a hard time with it (because it was too much for a baby dog) and he shut down. Like, literally froze and I couldn't get him to do anything else. Oooookay.

So, then we went to BRAG class. He is of course still acting like a nutso whining about Fada. We have *never* had a problem with him running while Fada is running. He is determined though that this is the night to win her over finally! So, instead of running our sequence, he would do a few obstacles then stop and stare, oh so lovingly, in her direction. And then take off towards her. It was aggravating! But, we treated him like a baby dog and just rewarded him after each obstacle... and he did really get better as the night went on, but he was still very distracted.

So, what are we going to do with this? He is not going to be allowed to get away with some of the BS we let him get away with anymore... such as the whining and trying to be cute with Panic... he's got to learn that being so horny all the time is NOT ok! Even though it *is* a little cute. So we'll see how that goes.