Lucy continues to grow. We've found, after many long, loud afternoons, that if you give both of the dogs a rawhide they'll shut the hell up. Probably not a good parenting tool, but there are times that Rachelle and I would actually like to talk to each other. Or watch another episode of "House Hunters". We've now been to three puppy classes. Lucy slept through the first one, cowered through the second one and finally decided at the third that it wasn't so bad. What changed her mind seemed to be the treats that teacher Julie hands out. Lucy was hiding under the chair until Julie started training one of the other dogs and was rewarding her with treats. That got Lucy's attention. She was much more involved in puppy class after that. I still wouldn't say she's a stellar pupil, but she's pretty good. MUCH better than the lab who took a huge dump towards the end of class #2. We were dismissed a little early that night. Glad it wasn't our dog.
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