Day 62 - Try, Try Again - May 10th
I hope you can handle another dog story.(My life has very limited horizons right now) We have been continuing to work with Kimba on jumping up in the car as I had signed her up for training classes, about 10 miles away and she would need to take a little ride to get there. We have progressively scaled back the size of the box she has been using to jump up in the back of our Murano with each day until we have gotten down to a small 2" foam mat. She has been hopping in and out with ease as long as we use the mat. If we take away the mat she struggles. Her first class was tonight so the plan was to just take the mat in the car with us so she would feel comfortable hopping in after class.
We arrived for class on time and met with about 20 other dogs and owners. The class was extremely challenging for Kimba, as she was so supercharged at seeing the other dogs. She got really good at pulling on the leash, barking and totally ignoring my every command, but she was just about par with the other dogs, so I decided not to worry yet. I am pretty sure she had no clue that I had come along for the ride, (the one she was giving me around the lawn perimeters), but she still seemed to enjoy herself! That is until class was over, the minute she saw the car, she laid down on the ground, (I knew she had heard that down command I had given her earlier in class, it was just a delayed reaction!) She was not budging! I finally got her feet up on the bumper and Wa-la she didn't jump in, but my strength training has paid off, I just lifted her in! Triumph amid Trial! Another good day!
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