The Graduate

Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman, move over.  Pepper is the new "Graduate."  Yes, he made it through the 6 weeks of sit, stay, down, wait, and shake hands.  He's ready to move on to intermediate class, where he will learn heel, park it (go to your blanket), and get better at all the commands.

Pepper's got a lot of learning yet to do, but he's very smart, tries hard to please, and I'm convinced he'll be the first of my dogs in many years that is well trained.  Even though he's small, it is such a pleasure when they're well behaved.  My biggest challenge is getting him to stop lunging and pulling every time he sees another dog when we're out on a walk.  And if he gets out of the house and sees a dog across the street, whoosh, he's gone in a flash and hopefully no cars are coming because he does not stop and look both ways. 

Last week Pepper got out of the house.  The gardeners were in front of our house working, their truck, a big Ford F-250 was there, and the window was down.  What did Pepper do?  He took a big leap and landed in the drivers seat.  What a little clown he is. 

Anyway, thought you'd enjoy a picture taken at graduation from PetSmart training.  I love our trainer Leslie.  She's at the Leucadia store and teaches several classes.  I'll keep you posted on how the next phase of training goes.  Go Pepper!