Working With Patrick

Hi Everybody.
Tonight Patrick came for my third lesson. Sue took some pictures so you could see how hard I am working at being trained.
This is Patrick with me. My ears are flat against my head because I know this is the beginning of "the lesson" and that I will be doing a lot of hard work.







This is me with Sue. Patrick said she is doing a very good job working with me. You can tell that we are still in "the lesson" because I do not look very happy, even though I really like Patrick.










Tonight we learned about "going to the place." Unfortunately for me "the place" was a thing in the middle of the yard and all the neighbors could see what I had to do: Go to the place. See?










This is Patrick screaming his head off at me. Well, actually he does not scream. He does not even raise his voice. He just tells me what to do and I pretty much do it.










In this picture I think I look like a circus animal. I felt really stupid standing on "the place."
Patrick kept saying "Go to your place!" and I kept wanting to say, "If YOU had to stand on this place in Sue's back yard don't you think YOU would feel like a circus animal??" But I did not.








Just when I thought we were done Patrick took me inside and told me to go to my "place" which is a dog bed in the family room. I thought we were done with "the lesson" and I was purrrrrty sad when we had to have more of "the lesson" inside.

I heard Patrick tell Sue that I was a "bright, bright dog" when the lesson started. I kept doing everything perfectly and he said, "This is amazing." Then I decided to not be perfect and I started to eat grass. It took Patrick a few minutes to "get past the distracted phase" of our lesson.

So, now you know what I go through on Wednesday nights. I am very tired when Patrick goes home. Sue is very happy. She says, "Elvis, you are a perfect dog."

Love,
Elvis