I attended the puppy classes at The Windsor & District Dog Training Club.

Brenda was our teacher, she was fab! She made the owners run around and listen to what she wanted for us dogs, we had a great time and the 12 weeks went very quickly.

I had learnt heal work, about turns, right turns, left turns, sit, stand, sit stay, down stay and the pre beginners recall. My dad was very proud of me and expected me to win the competition. I did a nearly perfect competition until I did the sit stay and got bored decided to have some fun and went for a walk in the middle of the exercise and washed out 10 marks which made me come second, dad laughed about it afterwards so it was OK.

In the autumn 2004 dad's knee was repaired and he is fully mobile, we moved to Reading and joined a new Dog Club called AquaDoggies at Grazeley Village Hall, Grazeley Near Reading. Andrew Dicker is my new teacher. He is mad about rugby and a dedicated and very talented obedience trainer. I think it is great to see him making my dad run around like a mad thing working me as hard as he can. We both love the fun and I have to practice every day as well so we make sure the homework is done properly.

Andrew competing at the Inter Regional Competition at Crufts 2000. (Picture by kind permission of Les Perry - Obedience UK www.obedienceuk.com)	Kim Innes being stewarded by Andrew at Crufts 2003 (Picture by kind permission of Les Perry - Obedience UK www.obedienceuk.com)

I will be working hard now and will add more about my training as it happens...More to come later