Once he got his bearings he started running and jumping around like a madman... it was pretty funny as he approached his basketball in the yard with snow piled on top, gently sniffing it and pawing at it. When the snow fell from the top of the ball, it scared him and off he went running around, jumping at and around it again. He stayed outside before I left for work for a good 10 minutes running around the yard and investigating. He still did manage to find some loose bark to eat - yes, he still eats bark and toilet paper!
After reading my sister's Blog this morning, I had to laugh that Echo and Mariner had their first good snow experiences at nearly the same time, and both reacted about the same... like crazed animals. lol
This past Thursday was our last 'level 2' training class too - Echo "won" first place again! haha You'd think he was this highly intelligent and obedient dog after 2 first place finishes in both puppy and level 2 classes... well, think again! He's a good dog, yeah, but we need to take the training to the next level - obedience outside of the classroom and without flashing treats in front of his nose.
He's like the brat kid in grade 2 who's wearing his Sunday's best and flashing the teacher a smile when she's looking, but when teacher is looking away, he's throwing spit-balls at all the girls. Or in Echo's case, when you're holding treats in your hand and in "the classroom", he's a show-off. But outside - in our backyard, for instance, he's a little bugger.
Echo knows it all, but now we need to break the "if I feel like it" syndrome - especially with "come". Frustrating at times! But again, we need to remind ourselves that he's only 7 months old on Thursday this week and he's bound to start getting more independent and distracted with his hormones kicking in.
I took him to work this weekend while I stopped in shortly, and weighed him on the skid scales here.. he's 105 lbs!
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