Originally Posted by cocis

Thanks for all your lovely comments! If your poochie is eager to learn go for it! We are clicker training her at the moment and it works for us.
We just viewed other peoples videos on youtube and went from there. Saying that, I took Izzy to her first training class last night, mainly for the socializing, expecting her to be top of the class (what a proud mum!) and she went crackers! Firstly she wasn't keen on the tiny Shitzu, we got sin binned and sent to the other end of the room for distracting the Spaniel next to us, she smelt the liver treats the trainer had on the table from a mile away and tried to snaffle the lot! She wouldn't sit or lie down, basics she was doing at home on the first day we had her! She then did a spectacular 'crawl' all the way across the hall, I think she was expecting everyone to go "wow! What a clever dog" and the only reaction she got was the lady next to me asking if she had a problem with her legs?!!!! We did get a free clicker, training lead and Kong so I suppose we came away with something! It was her first trip out so I suppose there were distractions around which she hasn't encountered before. She is 'allowed out' officially tomorrow so hopefully by next weeks class she will have calmed down.............