School Days

I've been living in my new home for a while and I've been learning from the best teacher ever: my mama! She had helped me to learn "sit" and "paw" and when I do those I don't even need a treat anymore (although I do like when I get a treat).

She tried to teach me how to "lie down" (actually, I believe the proper grammar is "lay down" but I am not going to correct my mama...she was educated on Long Island!). When she tries to do that, I like to run under the ottoman and so I am - in a sense - in a "lower position' than I was when the class began, but it's not (quite) what she's looking for me to do and so :( no treat.

But, we've been doing good school stuff and I like it because I like new things.

Still, my mama thought that it would be good for me to learn even more and make new puppy friends and so she has signed me up for two different learning/play classes. One will start in about a month, but the other started yesterday! And, boy, was I excited.

After we had lunch with mama's cousin Aaron, we went to the place where my class will be. I like riding in the car since we are moving fast, and also I can watch my mama (since my servant/butler holds on to me in a good position). We had a nice drive and when we got there (we were early!) I made a friend. His name was either Marcus or Barkus (I'm not great with names....sorry!) and we sniffed for a while and then went our separate ways as we waited for the doors to open and for class to start.

When everyone was there, the teachers had our mamas click for us and give us a treat and I have to tell you that the clicking was kind of annoying but the treats were not and so click away, mama!

Then, it was the first play time and they had all the "new puppies" (it was our first week out of four that we'll be having classes) play together for a little while but we only got to play for not much time since there were big doggies and little ones like me and one puppy who was really pretty nice smacked me a little and I didn't mind since we were running around but they had everyone stop and it was break time and we could go outside if we wanted to (I did not) and then they put the smaller puppies together and playtime started but soon another puppy (Tucker) and I were moved to our own space. They thought we'd be good friends, I guess, and I kind of liked chasing him!

 

But the people there wanted us to play and not chase and so they tried to have us play with toys but I sure do love chasing and running.

 

Then, another break and my mama took me outside for some air and then we came back and had another chance to play and - again - I was alone with Tucker (we were the smallest puppies, too!) and we ran for a while and then it was time to go home.

I was so tired! I slept most of the way home and when we got home I was ready for a nice dinner and lots of water (although my mama did make sure that I got to use my new bowl for water when we were at school).

I'll be back next week and I don't know if we'll have more fun with small puppies but I think I like school and I am excited to see what next week will be like!

Arf Grr, Arf

Ziggy