From Wallflower to CIRCUS-ready.
He came in as the most shy dog in the class, and is slowly warming up and coming out of his shell. Small dog class is a great way to remedially socialize small dogs with other dogs of a similar size so they are "less scary" and then you can slowly work up to more interactions with larger or mulitiple dogs. Small dog class also help focus on some of those annoying small dog centric issues like EXTENDED housetraining issues, barking and hand shyness.
Jumping through the arms is a great trick to reduce fear of proximity to people's hands/arms and LOOMING OVER-which is a BIGGIE.
IN case you've never seen a circus-y dog show, you can get some trick ideas HERE
This TRICK is surprisingly easy to teach. Next week I'll show the steps to this trick!
xoxoxo Denise
