They survived!

Well they survived.  My human came home from class with no sprains or fractures, she still had a few treats left in her pocket and the FG was in a great mood.  Mind you, I've never seen the FG in a bad mood.  I understand he was the only Picard in the class.   Which I guess is not really a surprise given that there are probably only two other Picards in the province.  There were several Shelties in the class, several Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, a Doberman, a Bearded Collie and an Old English Sheepdog.  Glad to hear the herding group was so well represented.  Elroy did not rip the tail hair off any dogs - though he was staring at the butt of the Old English a couple of times.  Three people asked my human what Elroy was.  My human said coyote.  And she said he was just there to help him get used to being around dogs.     JUST kidding - about the coyote part.  But several people  didn't know what he was.  Guess they don't study rare dog breed books like my human.  

Elroy reportedly did a decent job - although he has been trained to "sit" for his obedience classes - and he apparently hasn't figured out that for the beauty pageant classes, you don't sit.   For those unfamiliar with beauty pageant training, if you have ever seen a dog show, and you see how those dogs run around the ring with their humans and it all looks so easy and the dogs stand like statutes for the judge to look at them - well I'm here to tell you, it's actually not as easy as it looks.  My human is really the one who needs the classes and even on Day 1, the teacher identified one of my human's bad "habits."  She does this thing where she puts her finger in front of us when she wants us to run around the ring.   It looks like she is hailing a taxi as she runs around.  The teacher told her to stop it.  But of course, she can't.  She's been doing it forever.  One of the other people in class suggested she carry something in that hand so she wouldn't "raise the finger" and look like she was running  around the ring and proclaiming that she and the FG were #1.    The woman gave her something to hold, which the FG then thought was something for him to tug.  That plan didn't work.   She has to work on that.  She's also so busy watching the FG and entertaining him during class that she sometimes doesn't hear the instructions.  I imagine that they have already been identfied as the class clowns.  The two of them  make a good pair.

But all in all, my human came home happy too.  Although she DID need a nap when she got back.  Good thing she had taken Frodo and I for an hour long walk BEFORE she went to class.  

She's off today - so I propose a 2 hour walk with me and Frodo - given that WE didn't get to go to a class yesterday.  It's really only fair. 

Have a happy Monday.  You know we will!