The Sewing Mom

We completed day one of puppy training at PetSmart.  I was surprised that there were only 2 other puppies in class besides Plinko.  One was a chiwawa named Spike and the other was a beagle named Lacy.  They were both very cute (well, as cute as a chiwawa can get) and to my surprise, Plinko was the biggest dog in class!  She looked huge compared to the other two.  Plinko was also the most sociable one in class.  She kept going across and visiting with the other dogs and the other humans.  It was very funny!  So the first class consisted of learning how to train with a cue, in this case, using a clicker.  Me personally, I found the clicker to be very annoying, and I’m still not sure if I’m going to use it.  The reason behind it makes sense, with 3 of us in the house trying to train one dog, all of our voices are different, so a clicker allows for consistency.  However, there is only one clicker, so chances are we won’t all have access to it all the time.  Yep, seems I’m leaning away from using the clicker.  The second item was to train the dog to pay attention to you, the human.  This means that you’re training the dog to  look you in the face when you call their name.  We do have homework, none of which I’ve started yet!  My intention was to start this morning, but I sort of forgot.  As the day has progressed, it’s been a good day as far as potty training goes, so I don’t feel like messing with a good thing.  I’ll get to it before next Saturday’s class, I promise!