A New School

My exciting weekend at the caravan has played havoc with my digestion. I've had an attack of the runs.

When Wendy came home at lunchtime yesterday I was nowhere to be found. She eventually tracked me down in the bathroom where I'd managed to shut myself in. I'd left a rather nasty poop pile on the floor for her to clean up (well I couldn't make it onto the loo).

Had a suprise trip out last night. Wendy put me into the car and we drove for about 20 minutes (I was good and not sick at all). We parked and Wendy took me out of the car and there were other dogs - it was a dog school.

The class was only 6 dogs - a labrador, a retriever, a cocker spaniel, a King Charles spaniel and a big white thing that looked like an albino alsatian - oh and me of course.

It was inside which was good (no sitting in the mud) and was taken by a nice lady called Jo. Wendy quickly found out where she'd been going wrong with my training - basically the wrong treats. Jo had sausage and cheese and for that I was prepared to do almost anything I was told. Several times she used me as the demonstration dog and said how good I was. Wendy had a pocket full of kibble so couldn't compete - she'd better sort it out next week or I'm going to live with Jo.

This school was much better than my last one. We were always doing something - here's what we did:

• Sit


• Down


• Stay - in sit, down and stand


• Walk to Heel with direction changes


• Socialisation - walking round the room and then being good and sitting/staying quietly when our owners stopped to talk to each other


• Walking though doorways - letting owners go first and only coming through when asked

Jo also checked all our leads and collars were safe and on properly and that our identity tags complied with the law. 5 out of the 6 of us had wrong tags. By law they have to have your owner name, address and phone number - mine just had my name and phone number.

So we're all on the way to our first Kennel Club award and I think I'm going to enjoy this class as Jo is very nice and helpful.

Now if I can only do something about the runny tummy. I got Wendy up 3 times in the night and needed to be let out so this morning I had to have the special vet food for upset tummies. Wendy said she can't wait to go home at lunchtime today and see if I've left her another pressie.