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I am a male yellow Lab. My birth date is September 4th 2011. I am in training to be a guide dog for the blind. (guide dog school -Southeastern Guide Dogs) I'm my raiser's fifth guide dog puppy. She will keep me for (about) 1 year, then I will head off to harness training! Please feel free to follow my blog and keep up with: Brandon's Life... As a guide dog in training

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Saturday, January 23, 2010

Doggy Fun!!

I was quite surprised when my raiser woke up this morning and told me we were going to PUPPY CLASS!!
It may not be a big surprise to you guys, but this is my THIRD puppy class in the last 3 weeks - that's 1 puppy class a week!

Our Area Coordinator is trying new & different places to do obedience with, so this time all of us dogs met in a tennis court! (after puppy class our raisers took off our coats/collars/leads and let us all play with each other; we sure had a blast!)

We worked on so many different commands.
For 5 minutes of the class we did a short "puppy trade" where all the raisers traded dogs.
My raiser got a cute little black male Lab (Sparky), and I went to Sparky's raiser.
This didn't go over well with me, I went crazy trying to get back to my raiser. (I have some "issues" with leaving my raiser, but our area coordinator is working with us on that.)
The Area Coordinator is now talking about doing puppy swaps for me every other week (between puppy classes) , which means I would be going to someone else's house for a WHOLE WEEK, and it would be more than once!


We had extra long leashes (lunge lines for horses) for us doggies to work on "come" from afar.


Some other dogs got "side tracked" when they were called, but me? NO. My raiser called me and I went STRAIGHT to her!
(it may sound like I'm so obedient, but my raiser says she is going to let me try the same thing with a different person next time; she some how thinks I will come to her, no matter the distance, but bets that if another raiser tried it I would still go straight over to her (my raiser).


At today's puppy class we also started a "new" command. (though my trainer has already taught me this).


"Place" is a command the raiser's don't have to teach us dogs, but it would be nice for us to learn. "Place" means our raiser's give us a blanket/bed, and when the place command is said we are to stay on that blanket/bed, it is to be our "place".
We can take 3 feet off of our "place" and we still won't be disobeying, as long as some part of us is on our "place".
My raiser has already taught me this command, but I know it as "bed". She did get permission to keep using the same command, so she doesn't have to confuse me with a different one.


I got to do puppy class in harness, and was very proud of it. We weren't going to be bringing the harness back home with us, but since another raiser had already left, my raiser was given the harness for another week (til' next puppy class).
Enjoy the pictures of my puppy class, and don't forget I LOVE hearing from my readers!



Toby
The dog with a blog






(Close up of only Toby - he is "smiling" and has 1 front foot in the air)





(Picture of Toby & I; Toby is in a stand-stay beside me)













(Picture of Toby & 3 of his siblings playing together, left to right- Toby, Duchess (in red collar), Rocky (you can see 1 foot & a tail), and Spike.




(Picture of Toby finishing up his "come" command, with a "heel", he is on my left side, and I am petting him)




(Picture of Toby (left) & Spike (right) doing down stay beside each other, with both raisers holding them)



(Toby & Spike doing a "sit-stay" beside each other, with us raisers holding them)






(Toby & I in the corner of the Tennis court, Toby is in a down-stay)



(Toby inside a restaurant in a "down-stay", looking at the camera)

7 comments:

Sonic said...

That's so cool that you can go back to your Raiser! Sadly, I'm a bit naughty at puppy class and I like to run around and sniff the other dogs. But I'm really well-behaved at home though! Except when I'm sniffing around in the yard.

Sonic

NAK and The Residents of The Khottage Now With KhattleDog! said...

Ahhhhhh!

Woo look so handsome yet so furry khute!

I'm sure your raiser does appreciate how much woo love her but she knows woo need to pay attention to the others too!

Hugz&Khysses,
Khyra & Khousin Merdie

Dexter said...

Such hard work. It must be scary trading handlers at first, but remember your training, OK? You have to work for whoever is with you.

You can do it!

Slobbers,
Mango

Beth and Alfie said...

That looked like a great place to train...enjoyed the pictures! The header picture is great too! :-)

Kari in Alaska said...

i love the action shot of them all playing together. Funny to see it in comparison to just a few months ago!

Golden Woofs! SUGAR said...

Woof! Woof! Thanks for sharing you puppy class. WOW! What a great job. Lots of Golden Woofs, Sugar

Ruby's Raiser said...

Looks like you had a GREAT class, thanks for sharing those pix!