[Sherryabear]

Gordon will have his 5th puppy class this Saturday.

I have been with two other dogs of ours before and it helped them.
I had already taught him a few of the basic commands, but I wanted him to have the socialization with others (dogs and humans). Gordon learns the commands pretty good within a couple of minutes......the problem with Gordon is distraction. The Petsmart that he goes to.....the class is sorta in the middle of the store , and lots of distractions. The first two classes , I thought he didn't learn anything because he was so distracted. Yet, when I gave him the commands at home , he did them.
In the four classes so far he has learn the basics, (sit, down, stay, watch me, leave it, take it, and how to walk nice on a leash) he doesn't have all of them 100% but he is at least 80% even with the distractions.
He only does the commands for treats (cheerios) but once he is 100% we will faze them out. He is already doing sit and down with hand signals real good.

He will start advance classes at the end of May and then clicker classes.

It is well worth the money and the drive (45 minutes) for me.
Oh, and Gordon it the only one in the class , there were two others but they dropped out.....to long of a drive.
He will have lots in the advance class , so that will help him a lot.