Graduation Day

March 3, 2007. A long, long time ago, on graduation day…hey, wait a minute; I’m not supposed to be singing. Today is graduation day though, from Puppy School Basics for me. Hopefully I will make it through later and get my certificate. But the day started out much differently than I expected.

We went to Tim Horton’s for breakfast today. I didn’t get to go to the park because a baseball team was working out. Spring training, it feels more like winter break instead. After breakfast we went walking at the trail around Burnaby Lake again for an hour and a half and 5.5 kilometers. Afterwards we came home for a quick rest and then headed off to class.

Well, this is it, my final puppy class. As a warm up I ran through almost the complete agility course, including the A-Frame, the ramp, one tunnel and a tire hoop. As for the rest of the class, well, I didn’t do all that well today. I was very stressed out by the other dogs today and was losing my concentration. I finally settled down later on and managed to get some of my tasks done.

Finally, after all was said and done I was through to the end. I was awarded my graduation certificate from my Puppy Basics course. Now I get a two week semester break and then move on to the Beyond Basics course. That should be fun and a little less stressful as it will be outside and give me more room to move. We will be learning some tracking and some searching as well.

After we left the class for the last time, we went for dinner and then came home for a well deserved rest.