Well she is 18 months old but between her ears Molly is a puppy! No manners and no understanding of household behaviors.  So you sign her up for training with other puppies.  She is certainly the biggest puppy in the room and the most mature in that she is less tolerant of really bad behaviors but she is still way to unruley for us.  Plus she gets lots of socialization which lets her meet and interact with other people and dogs.

The class has 2 huskies, a boxer, a bull mastiff, a australian sheperd and Gracie a Sheltie. Gracie has “issues”. That is the understatement of the day. She won’t walk on concrete, eat with anyone else in the room and is totally blown away by all these DOGS. The instructor puts her and Molly together and they get seperated so Gracie can lower her “HOLY CRAP” levels to defcon 3.

They gets along OK but Molly senses the weakness and leaves Gracie pretty quickly so we bring in the Australian Sheperd who gets along with Molly and Gracie fine. We work on sit and down and stand and get “homework” for next meeting in two weeks when they should sit, down, stand and begin coming to their name.  Right now Molly is doing great and we have had her doing her homework alot today and she is great with treats and hit and miss without.  We are making progress and Molly is liking it.

Meanwhile Molly is finally beginning to acclimate to our house.  She is getting better at “kennel” command and seems conforted in her crate. Jan came out of the shower this morning and both Katie and Molly were in Molly’s kennel and they were fine with that albeit a bit crowded. She is still a barker and some of that has to get under control. Jan tripped on Molly’s Nyla bone and ran her hand into the wall and this required ice cubes in a wash cloth. One ice cube fell on the floor and Molly snarfed it up and ate it and then proceeded to bark at Jan until she got another and another … Well you get the picture. We are really enjoying having a distraction from mother-in-law so Molly gets lots of attention.  What fun.

Creator Bless, Love Dad.