YAY!!!!!

WE GRADUATED!!!!!!!!!!!

Starting a New Chapter

Our journey in Rochester ends tomorrow, when our Calvin journey begins :-) A night of packing and reading. Look out world, here we come!

Almost Done

We have been wrapping up our training this past week. Yesterday, we were dropped off in pairs 10 blocks from the training center downtown and had to find our way back using our GPS and our dogs. We rocked it! Mike and I were paired up. We did so well!! We celebrated by going out for coffee.
Now, we're going bowling! A neat way to train and have fun at the same time!!

Busy!!

It's been a little while since I've posted because it has been very busy here! We have gone to two shopping malls and practiced escalators, elevators, stairs, and moving walkways. We also went to Detroit and rode the People Mover (like a train around the city) and did some downtown crossings. We've done more distracted obedience, which Sandy is improving on. She did however manage to get a piece of pizza that was thrown an inch from her nose...(no i don't blame her either!!) It's been great so far. Tomorrow is our last day of training for the week. Looking forward to Andy and Kara visiting Sunday!!

Indoor Morning

We had distracted obedience this morning...It's much to cold to be out all day! Negative wind chills...brrrrrrr! We did sit stays and down stays with these distractions: stuffed animals being thrown on the floor, food offered to the dog, food being eaten around them, a loose dog around the room, a dog on a leash walking around, and a dog running circles around them. Sandy struggled some, but did a nice job overall.
Then we practiced how to ride in vehicles safely with the dog. She can sit in the front with me, sitting on the floor facing me. In the back, she can sit or lay on the floor with her leash hooked around the front seat. She can also lay in the far back of an SUV in a travelers crate or on tie down. Going to Detroit this afternoon for city training!

Week 3!

Ready for week 3! Off to North Hill, a subdivision. Then downtown Rochester after lunch. Feeding and more in lecture tonight. Only two weeks to go!

Happy Saturday :-D

We are headed downtown Rochester this morning for obstacle training. Sandy is trained to guide me around partial obstacles. For obstacles that cover the entire sidewalk, she is trained to guide me safely into the street and back to the sidewalk to clear them.
Then this afternoon, we are going to Stony Creek. There's a bike path that we will walk on, full of distractions for Sandy...people, dogs, water, children....all kinds of stuff.
Then we have some free time tonight after our pizza party :-)