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Shaping Sunday: Monkeys and Muzzles

Frodo, Ryan and I have started going to a shaping class on Sunday (yaaaaay shaping, as you may remember, this is only of my goals for 2011, to learn to shape better) with a bunch of really awesomesauce people and other dogs.

This week was our second week and Frodo did quite well for the most part, though he did react to a greyhound who (in his opinion) came too close. After the reaction, and it wasn't a big one, he did continue to work fine with a barrier between himself and the greyhound.

As for actual shaping today we worked on muzzle work, which went really really well thanks to Megan, who brought in a basket muzzle that Frodo could easily get his snout in! He was much more willing to leave his nose in this muzzle than he has been with the other mesh muzzle that we have been working with.

The rest of the class we spent working with his plush monkey that I am trying to teach him a play retrieve with. He did really well, better even than our work at Ryan's house. If I hold the monkey he will bite it, and sometimes even hold it for a second. If I put the monkey on the ground he will bite it repeatedly, but isn't so keen on lifting it off the ground. I need to choose one of these methods and move forward with it, instead of dabbling with both!

That's about all I can think of at the moment, my brain is pretty fried. I now have TWO jobs, which is great and will definitely keep me busy (and hopefully pay the bills), one of which I start tomorrow and work pretty much every day, so if the blog starts to slow down a bit, that is why. I also finished Frodo's awesome dog bed that I have been working on, and I have pictures but uploading them seems like a giant task right now, maybe tomorrow...
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