Sooooo

Foxy decided at the Splash Dogs practice session that she was *still* not wanting to jump off the big dock so we didnt even go to the competition. I knew that if she wouldnt jump off the dock in practice, she wouldnt do it in front of a hundred people watching her..it would probably send her over the top.

While we were at practice she really showed her evil side.... of wanting to jump out at every dog and person who got close because she wants to play. We are definitely having a hard time with controlling the urge to jump up on everything. She does NOT do it to me hardly ever.. she knows to respect me..its just now she needs to have manners with everyone else. I have a feeling that this will be a looooooong process with her. I ended up having to put the Gentle Leader on her as she was starting to be a total brat before I left. Anyways.. I think our next thing is just going to random places and having perfect manners.. I think getting her so bored with people walking by might be the ticket...I better bring a BIG book!

Her classes are going fine, but this week is the last bit of them..and so now we have to figure out where we are going to go from there. Last week, Rachel was not sure what to suggest to me. The next "basic" class she is giving is a CGC class and I am not going to push CGC on Foxy because the greeting part of it is going to be way too hard on her at this point. I have a feeling it is going to be a maturity thing and of course a training thing. So we arent going to do any CGC stuff yet. So hopefully by Wednesday night I will have a game plan for Foxy for the next few weeks. If not, we will have to take private lessons, but I really dont want to rely on those as they can be very expensive, and then I dont want her getting used to always being by herself in class.