I think Conrad knew I was talking so highly of him yesterday as he was a total stinker on our morning walk today! Though I think it's more likely due to the fact that he did not get an evening walk yesterday because I got home late and had to take Marlowe straight to class and DH is sick (I am too now bleh).

Anyway, Marlowe did great in class last night. We worked on the teeter and he totally is in love with it (which is entirely due to the treats that seem to appear on it lol). Every time we passed the wobble board we worked on at the beginning he wanted to hop right up on it (again, treats!).  I heard our trainer telling her assistant that she loves his teeter, so yay! He's pretty unflappable so I suspect that a lot of the obstacles that some dogs have problems with due to lack of confidence he'll do fine with. We have the building reserved for an hour of practice on Thursday, which I'm looking forward to. We still need to do remedial tunnel and jump work.

I also got to polish my ribbons a little. I got to trot out my operant conditioning jargon and just impressed the pants off our trainer who asked me where I started training (at home) and how I learned all that (books!). At the end of class she told me that she'd be interested in having me as an assistant in the future so yay me. She's encouraging me to come to the Leslie McDevitt Control Unleashed seminar in two weeks, and I want to but holy wow spendy! I'll audit for at least a day, but I can't afford a working slot ($200!).  

Dogs are an expensive hobby! Anyone want to buy this totally unused label-still-attached large Outward Hound dog backpack off me so I can afford this seminar?