[alaskayorkie]

Thanks to all your advice and encouragement, Eddie was 100 percent better in his second class. We showed up 30 minutes early to let him get used to other dogs, and that seemed to help. By class time, he was fairly mellow around the big dogs.

He performed "down and stay" well, though nowhere near as well as he does on our walks to the park. He had more problems with the instructor trying to work with him. He kept shying away from her. It's frustration, because the instructor thinks he's struggling, but she doesn't realize he only struggles around her. Oh well. If he improves as much next week as he did this week, he'll be impressing everyone.