Kindergarten Graduation!

Cooper has officially graduated from puppy obedience kindergarten! Some days he was the best behaved puppy in the class, other days he seemed to want nothing to do with obedience, and just wanted to play. Everyone in the class laughed hysterically at him when we did the "come" command and he would bolt across the room to me, usually tripping over his own feet and face planting it.

In puppy kindergarten he has learned to sit, lay, stand, roll over, shake, walk nice on a leash and come when called. He definitely has the sit, lay, shake, and roll over down to a tee, even when a treat isn't present. He will come when called if he feels like it, maybe 60% of the time, so we need to work on this. He walks pretty well on the leash, staying with his walker and not pulling, but if he does see something he really wants, he goes for it. We have also taught him "leave it" which he does really well. We have taught him to sit and wait for his food, as well as sit and wait when going out the door and coming back in. Over all I feel he is doing well. We will hopefully be starting his next obedience class soon.

He has recently had a bit of a personality change. He has had an increase in energy and has become more daring and persistent with things. He has decided that it is is fun to run from me when he has something he's not supposed to, he used to drop it when told to :(