Happy Halloween!!! We have more tuckered out puppies today! I can tell see that the dogs are working awfully hard when they are tracking.  Plus we ended the night with Trick or Treating!

Today we started with some classroom training.  Most of the time was spent going over questions the mommies and daddies had. They we practiced putting London in the ‘Down’ and ‘Heal’ positions and giving her lots of distractions.  This mimics real life when we are out in public.  We also practiced ‘under’. This will be used especially when we are out at restaurants and need London to sit under the table for the whole meal. Before we left London was given her vest to use in public!

Then we went back to the park for tracking training.  London gets so excited as soon as she realizes it’s time to play the tracking game.  She puts all of her energy into findings her girl. Nothing else seems to matter to her. She runs the entire time.  Today I “took a walk” at the baseball complex.  I left the parking lot, walked across a ball field, and into the picnic pavilion.  With the rain today it took London much longer to find my track (like 30 seconds instead of 3).  Once she found the scent though she took off to find me!

Then I went to the local mall for my first public outing with London. We practiced walking around the mall, going into stores, riding the elevator, and walking staircases.  She did an excellent job today! Check out her video from the mall.

Best of all, tonight students from the Wright State University – 4 Paws University Foster Program helped us Trick or Treat in the hotel lobby.  Almost all of the kids and their dogs dressed up in costumes.  My best friend at training brought a Mini Mouse outfit for London so she would match her brother Bronx, dressed up at Mickey.  Of course, I was dressed as Rapunzel!  You can see all the pictures here!

London and I are worn out and begging Mommy and Daddy for bed even though it is only 7pm! Time for a good nights sleep to get ready for our busy day of training tomorrow!