Cindy Jae's Latest Report Card

Cindy Jae got her third report card this week. I'm not sure if I ever published her second as it came while I was busy with Texas stuff last month, but here's her current progress.

TRAINING REPORT
DOG: Cindy Jae	Tattoo: 3R09	Date: March 8, 2011
Training Phase: Phase 1

++ - exceeding expectations + - meeting expectations W=working on

Accepts harness	+
Forward	+
Straight line concept	+
Left	+
Right	+
Down curbs	+
Up curbs	+
Clearances	+
Traffic	+
Indoor mall	+
Off curb Travel	+
Left, Left	+
Right, Right	+
Stairs	+
Escalators	+
Underfootings	+
Food scavenging	W
Obedience	+
Distractions:
Scent	W
People	+
Small animal	+
Dog	W
Children	+
Kennel behavior	+

COMMENTS: Cindy Jae is an enthusiastic, happy little worker but still needs to mature a little. We are still working on the barking for attention in the kennel.

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I love the comments they put on the report cards. "enthusiastic, happy little worker" describes Cindy Jae exactly and the "still needs to mature a little" doesn't surprise me at all. She always seemed a little behind her siblings in the growing-up department. She went from W to + back to W on the food scavenging, but she went from W on all the distractions to getting + on three of them. She only barked a handful of times while here, but she seems to have picked up that bad habit at school. You know those college kids. Gotta try what all the other kids are doing no matter how much they know better.

I'm so glad to see that Cindy Jae is doing well and I'm looking forward to going back to the school to see her again whenever she finishes her training, gets paired with a student, and she and her blind partner graduate.

I think I've gotten to the point where I miss having a dog around here. Hyper Cindy Jae all the time would be a bit too much for our already crazy life, but having spent time around my brother two small dogs, I would love to have one like them around. They're quiet and relaxed and like to just hang out without requiring constant supervision because they're going to eat stray socks. They're like cats except they actually *like* people.