Interesting night at the hotel. We decided to eat dinner in our room. Henna and Sno played ball and with her toys. We worked on basic commands, especially having Sno stay in a down. She wants to break her down position and do her own thing. I will have to find another way to motivate Sno to do what she's suppose to do. I have a tendency to have a flat tone when I give a command so I'm going to try to have more inflection in my voice. Maybe she'll take me more seriously. I took Sno out before bed and then she was wandering around at 4:00 am so I took her out again and she did her business. A little later Sno threw up. So fun! I couldn't get Sno to sleep on Henna's bed so I put her mat by Henna's bed. I think the bedspread was slippery and she didn't like that. I'll put a blanket on the bed tonight. Henna is having a hard time letting me handle Sno. She feels Sno is her dog so she should be able to do everything I do. It doesn't help that she has PMS and morphs into an ogre a week before her period. Shriek looks like a prince compared to Henna! Ha! We worked on "place" today. The dog will go a Mutt Mat and can do anything on the mat as long as he keeps 2 paws on the mat. We then worked on the "come" command which is only used to get a dog in from the back yard or in an instance where a dog may run out the front door. More of an emergency command. Sno did well but began to anticipate the command. Smart girl. Jeremy showed the class retrieving which one of the dogs is trained to do for her boy who is in a wheel chair. A college student has a trained hearing dog, a Papillon, who will alert her when someone knocks on the door, calls her name, when an alarm goes off, etc. The girl will then sign "where" to the dog and the dog will take her to who called her name or what the alert was. Fascinating!!! We ended the day working on seizure work, Henna helped by pretending to have a seizure and Sno responded by barking. All the dogs were fit with their working harnesses. Sno didn't mind hers. I remember when Leo got his and he pouted from the very beginning. I guess he never wanted to be a service dog and why he chewed through 5 or more harnesses before being retired.

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