in which Phoebe gets bored while reviewing for finals
Last night’s class was not much more than a review for next week’s final exam. Most young scholars, be they students of literature or canine obedience, don’t really enjoy exam review, and Phoebe proved to be no exception.
She grew bored mid-way through and forgot who I was. She decided to ignore me completely and invest all her energy into her peer group. I don’t think she’s involved in drugs or gangs, but I’m watching her writing to make sure there isn’t any secret tagging going on.
The exam will consist of a demonstration of everything that has been learned so far, but for Phoebe ‘sit’ and ‘down’ have been modified to ‘stay,’ so we practiced stay, and we stayed, and kept staying. Phoebe nearly stayed a hole in the ground she stayed so well. Of course she is quite staid in public…
At the end of the class we were given a final project to do at home. The teacher wants us to teach our dogs a trick using the things we learned in class. She recommends ‘shake’ or ‘high-five’ so that’s what we’ll be working on as we cram for next week’s final.
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The greys do really “greyt” high fives, but they have to sit to do it. I saw one that was trained to stand up on her rear feet and do a high five once. Phoebe would look really cool doing that.
We’ll be starting with shake, but I think a jumping high five would be most cool. And I’m still working on sit in the hope that one day it will happen, but if not, I guess that’s okay.
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