Yay Duke passed Puppy manners/Puppy Obidence school:)

[Kayla]

Yay I'm so proud of Duke, this sunday was his graduation from puppy manners and obidence and he passed with flying colours Over the last 6 weeks Duke has mastered sit from a standing position, sit from a down position, down from a standing position, down from a sitting position, sit-stay for up to 45- 60 seconds as well as being able to take 20-40 steps backwards, down- stay for 10 seconds or 5 steps backwards, high-five, paw, recall, look, heel and he's almost mastered take a bow and crawl.

Their were 10 other puppies in his class ranging from shitzu's to black and golden labs and Duke was the only mixed breed however he caught on the fastest and for a 4 month old puppy im impressed with his strong desire to learn/please.

Since gradutating we've since become on learning, "roll over" and increasing our sit-stay and down-stay times as well as switching up the order of the little obidence trials we play with him to keep him stimulated.

I still can't believe I lucked out with such a smart puppy and he's been nothing short of amazing ecpecially since he's my first dog. I just got pet insurance yesterday and am still waiting for it to take full effect but he will be neutered as soon as he hits 6 months and then at 7 were going back for normal obidence class and then once he's a year try our luck at agility as he has such a strong desire to learn/ be doing something with a purpose. That and he already knows "through" for the tunnels and "over" for jumps.

Anyways here's my little smarty pants with his certificate:)

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c171/exotica_reptiles16/Duke/IMG_0574.jpg

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c171/exotica_reptiles16/Duke/IMG_0575.jpg

Cheers
Kayla

[Brattina88]

:D Congrats!!

I'm glad to hear that you're going to continue it with him!!!
give him lots of pats and cookies for me :)

[Doberluv]

Wow! Well done! Congratulations! He's really learned a lot. That is fantastic that you're going to keep on going with. He's a great dog!

[Kayla]

Thanks alot for the comments guys:) I'm very very impressed and amased with him as he is my first puppy and having both rotti and shepherd in him I was a little bit worried that I would be met with alot of stubbornness and maybe run into some training problems, however he's been the exact opposite. I know his horomons haven't kicked in yet and thats why I intend to bring him back right at their peek to reinforce that I'm top dog but he really seems to have a genuine love of learning and being given a job to do ( I'm assuming that comes from the three different working breeds in him). He picks up commands so quickly it's mind boggling, we started teaching crawl yesterday and he can already do it for a foot and were increasing to two feet today, same with paw which he learned in class it literally took him about 4 tries to get it and then it was just a matter of practicing so he wouldn't forget.

I'm also thinking of trying him at flyball as well when he's a bit older but just out of curiosity for flyball and agility does anyone know of any good training articles on the matter or is their even like an agility club of canada sorta deal that would have more info about where to find a trainer to help teach that sorta thing or can you do it by yourself?

Thanks alot
Kayla