{"id":235,"date":"2008-12-08T22:05:05","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T04:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/?p=235"},"modified":"2008-12-09T21:56:54","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T03:56:54","slug":"cay%e2%80%99s-7th-week-of-obedience-class-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Cay\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 7th Week of Obedience Class&#8211;Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;\">I was so proud of Cay last week. She graduated from obedience 1 class, passing all the exercises except the stay. It was the main exercise that I had practiced with her all week, knowing that it was the toughest one for her. During week 6, I noticed that it was hard for Cay to stay with a dog on either side of her. So all week we practiced with Chase in a stay on one side of her and Bandit in a stay on the other side.<!--more-->\u00c2\u00a0She was doing well at home. But in class, we had a dog on one side of us who wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get into position at all, and a dog on the other side who started \u00e2\u20ac\u0153talking\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, then jumped up and walked away. That was too much for Cay! She couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stay still.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;\">Cay excelled at the heeling and recall exercises, the easiest for a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Velcro\u00e2\u20ac\u009d dog, and passed all the other exercises. She gained much more confidence by going to class. She is a much more joyous dog now. The hot spots that she used to pick at when she was nervous are healing. She is excited to see my friends at dog obedience school. At home she brings me the rubber chicken to throw for her. Now she knows the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153chicken\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and gets it when I ask her for it. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s much more outgoing, yet she has more control over her body. She is less clumsy and runs up to me, but doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t crash into me like she used to. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m so excited to see how much Cay has grown and come out of her shell!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;\">We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re signed up for the obedience 2 class that begins in January, and Cay has been invited to appear on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Dog Show\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, a local cable TV show. More on that later\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was so proud of Cay last week. She graduated from obedience 1 class, passing all the exercises except the stay. It was the main exercise that I had practiced with her all week, knowing that it was the toughest one for her. During week 6, I noticed that it was hard for Cay to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}