Silver training commences and a bit of a surprise!

So finally we made it back to training today!

Bran was thrilled to see "his" Jo again and Jo was happy to have us back in the class.

The class was so different to what we've had before! There were only 2 other dogs there today and they are both training for their KC Gold so the standard was much higher than we've been used to working to. It felt as if the owners were more relaxed than they've been at our starter and bronze classes and I suppose that may be down to the fact that they've already done a fair bit of training with their dogs and are more confident with them.

Bran seemed to be really happy to be "working" again and was really attentive throughout the class, although his favourite bit was when Jo had to examine his ears, eyes, paws, etc and he rolled in his back and wagged at the same time! LOL!

Jo told me that she has no doubt that Bran will be ready to take his silver test fairly shortly and then said that she would also be expecting him to be taking his gold test at the same time as the other dogs in our class, as we're practising the gold exercises alongside them anyway. This means that he should have both his silver AND gold under his collar by Christmas! Blimey.

I'm fairly confident that Bran will be able to fly through both exams but that means that *I* have a lot of studying to do so that I don't let him down!

How exciting!