Hi Jayne, took Keltie to her first class last Friday. There were 6 other pups there, a staffie, a bull mastif, a cavalier spaniel, dalmation x and another cockapoo! A boxer will be joining us next week (that's the dog, not Frank Bruno!) It was really good, more talking than action though, I think that's just for the 1st week so that the trainer gets us to understand what we need to do. They said to bring the whole family with you so I bought 2 of the children, which I think will really help as they have to train Keltie as well. Just need to get hubby to come as he spent the weekend winding Keltie up and undoing all our training!
During training we had to sit away from each other and the dogs didn't interact at all for the hour. We had to get dogs to keep eye contact with us, and to come back to us, and we were shown how to hold them properly and to practise touching parts of them so that when they go to vets/groomers they'll be used to it. We've been given homework as well. There are 6 sessions.
Have to say, I really want Keltie to be well trained but I think that means lots of hard work and consistency for ALL the family! Keltie was quite good and the children said she was like the class nerd, did everything she was told to! We'll see what happens next week - she'll prob disgrace us!
Hope you and George have fun.
Cris x