I know that Jessica took out Marvin (the cinnamon colored pit in Pen 2), Tinkerbell, & Froggy . (Jessica, feel free to edit/change/amend any of this info.) It is my understanding that Tinkerbell was a dream as always. Froggy did very well with CGC tasks. (The only thing I can think of that she might need some reinforcement on is "stay"). Marvin was fine, though does not know how to take treats gently. That's something we can definitely work on though.
Greg & I took out Sassy, Fernando, and Precious & Miss Wiggles (with Jessica. Miss Wiggles is the female brindle in Pen 24). Precious and Miss Wiggles were mostly for photo ops.
If anyone has free time, Precious could really use a bath. She's a real sweetie. She was okay with us trying to hold her down/in place and was just really happy to be out with people. Though everything always blurs together, I'm pretty sure she knows sit and loves treats.
Miss Wiggles has a whip of a tail. She was a super happy dog and has kind of a Bobby wiggle. Also - a blur don't remember if she could sit.
Sassy is the blue-nose pit in Pen 32. She seemed a little nuts in her cage but was reeeealy great out of her kennel. She's really smart and a very fast learner. She has a cut on her left ear and she kept shaking her head and getting blood on her neck. Peter wiped it with an alcohol/anti-bacterial wipe and she was okay with that, she growled a bit after he had been rubbing it for a little while. I didn't take it as something aggressive though. She could use some more leash training. It seemed like she didn't really like it (she didn't like the choke collar effect or the fact that we put it on her when Peter was wiping her ear. Greg put a collar on her b/c she didn't like the leash closing on her neck. It was the only collar that was on the VSA hanger, but it's a really nice leather collar so we're not sure if that was something we should have put on her or not. Anyway...we worked on sit with her, easy treat taking, come and down. She already knew sit, and quickly starting taking treats easy. She loooves treats and it wasn't too hard doing come with her (though if she was distracted by something other than Greg or I, it was more difficult). She worked really hard on down. She did a couple of times herself, but we usually had to put a hand over her butt so she wouldn't lift it, or Greg would pick up her paws and put them on the ground. She doesn't really realize to move her left paw. She was great the whole time. She wasn't reactive toward any of the dogs near her cage (Froggy, Teddy, Marmalade) and only gets upset when she sees another dog out. She did get really upset when an owner took his dog out of a cage near her. She was crying, pawing at the kennel door opening and was starting to bite on the fence. She is a dog that could probably use some Valerian root!
Fernando did great coming out. He seems to be really depressed, though that made it a lot easier taking him out and putting him in his cage. He was very playful outside, running around and not letting us get the ball from him. He doesn't like not being able to see you. If Greg and I hid behind the wood fence, he would always come check to make sure we were there. Very interesting...Greg had thrown him a ball over the fence and it landed near 2 other balls. Fernando was going back and forth between the three balls for a while and then finally picked up the one that Greg had touched. We did it again, and he did the same thing. Actually those were the only two balls he grabbed the entire time (there was probably 5 balls outside total).
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