If you get a chance to get the DVD called The Language of Dogs, you will learn a lot about the dog language. Everything from licking to scratching, yawning, etc, etc, all has different meanings. And many have more than one meaning, as in the licking. The dog will use one form of licking when stressed, and another when they are giving a calming signal to another dog. There's just so much to learn, and if you really look at dogs as a whole, you will begin to see that all they are telling you is "I wish you would learn what I am saying", lol. Very good DVD.

Well, had class with Betty today. It went great. We went over more Rally stuff, and worked on her Heeling. She's doing much, much better. We also added another command to her list, Place. The trainer has a small square stand that she uses and has the dog sit on the stand when the command Place is said. Eventually we would like to get Betty to Place from a distance, right now it's with us next to the stand. The trainers Border Collie has a spot in her yard that she goes when the trainer says Place, then when the trainer points at a particular jump, the Border Collie will make the jump and come back to Heel position. She did that when she gave me the demo of Rally a couple months ago. We would like to get Betty to that point as well, and she's definitely picking it up very quickly.

As for her fear issues, we've stopped working on that for a bit. It's just too cold out, and too snowy and icy. We are going to wait til it warms up a little and the sidewalks melt, then we will start back with the other dogs. It's just so slick out right now, even my morning walks are a little dangerous, and I've fallen a couple times.

Another command we've added to her list is Crawl. We introduced that one to her last week. And she's doing it pretty well, just not from a distance yet. Will take a little time.

I also went to Dogwise.com today and checked them out. Found out they are only about a half mile away, or a little further. Talk about awsome. So many books and videos, lol. I bought Really Reliable Recall as well as The Language of Dogs. My next purchase is going to be Am I Safe? And there's so many others I want too, lol. But I think those 3 are my main ones I wanted.

As for the walks, Betty is starting to get a little better. Not a lot, but a little. It's starting to show. As long as I keep her on a loose leash, whenever we go by the other dogs, she just goes behind me and over to my right side so I'm in the middle, and she's fine. Occasionally they will get to her and she will lunge once or twice, but for the most part, she's doing better. But really has that fear, and don't like other dogs coming towards her at all. Hopefully we can beat this.