working towards Bronze

Ok, my plan to write more regularly isn't going so well, seeing as it's over a month since the last post!

On 27th February, at the SFLS AGM, there is going to be the opportunity to be assessed by a qualified Kennel Club Good Citizen Scheme assessor, so we've decided to finally try for Inko's Bronze award (and maybe her silver if we managed to pass the bronze and are feeling brave!!).

Inko has continued her training since her initial puppy classes, with a stint doing heelwork to music, an intermediate training class, and lots of training at home, but we have never quite got round to doing her bronze. Looking at the requirements on the Kennel Club website, I think we should be ok because it is all stuff she can do...the question is whether she will be bothered to do the tasks on the day of the assessment with other lappies around as a distraction!

To help with getting her a bit more polished on some of the tasks, we are starting a new training class tomorrow night. The class is specifically geared towards the bronze good citizen award, so hopefully it'll give us enough practice to pass on the day.

On the more fun side of things I have just bought a new dog training book called Brain Games for Dogs - I'll have to see what new tricks I can teach Inko over the next few weeks :)