Roxy, a very well behaved girl

Time for another Saturday morning trip to Anzac Park - this time our companion was the beautiful Roxy, a six-year-old Bull Arab cross. One of the exciting developments in my life in the last few weeks is that I’ve started assisting with the RSPCA Queensland School for Dog classes. So of course I wanted to put to the test some of the things that I had learnt in the training, observing classes and homework. We spent quite a bit of time walking together first to get Roxy comfortable in the park and with us, then spent some time trying out various commands. Luckily for me Roxy was a model student.

I’m experimenting with different layouts for my blog posts and photos. Hopefully the gallery below and captions work and are a nice way to show the fun times that Roxy and I had practising together.

Roxy is still available for adoption. She is a big (45kg) beautiful girl who is so well behaved but goofy and cuddly! I hope she finds a good home soon.

Adopt me!

Finally we remembered to make sure our “loaner dog” was properly attired in their Adopt Me bandana so people didn’t think we’re strange if we replied to people saying “She’s a beautiful dog” by responding “You can adopt her if you like?

Introductions

We spent quite a bit of time getting to know each other before we got to work practising our dog behaviour skills together

Kisses

I’m super proud of how far I’ve come with smiling while getting slobbery kisses!

Getting started with targeting

What better way to start than to get a dog booping itself?

Down

Roxy practising her “down” and me practising just giving the cue word only once and being patient…

Patience pays off

And Roxy got all the way down, what a good girl!

Capturing

We made sure to capture every time Roxy did as requested with a “Yes!” and a thumbs up…

Reward!

Of course followed by some very tasty treats as rewards

Congratulations

And to finish off we shook hands to congratulate each other on a job well done!