Puppy School

Oh My God!! I was so looking forward to Puppy School but I didn’t enjoy it very much thanks to the children from hell. I’m afraid this is going to be a bit of a rant.

We arrived at the Vet and I got weighed then we moved into the training room. Here we were greeted by 5 other puppies and 3 children. The puppies were all fairly well behaved, sitting on their owners laps or by their feet, however, two of the children were hellspawn. They were running, screeching, jumping and generally making a nuisance of themselves. The mother just sat there going “Hellspawn, sit down, sit down…”. Now was this puppy school or was this kindergarten, or maybe the playground? We live in a really screwed up society when puppies are better behaved than children. If a puppy had behaved in this way we would have been severely reprimanded and put into timeout. The Hellspawn just continued to ignore it’s mother and she just continued to whine at it so things didn’t really improve much. Of course the ruckus eventually stirred the other puppies up and a din of barking ensued.

The entire session was pretty much ruined by the Hellspawn, it had to be the focus of attention. Err hello, puppies here – we are paying for this…

I spent most of the time sitting under my chair or on Mum and Dads lap. When I did get let off the lead I wasn’t really interested in the other dogs, I said hello to a few of the other humans but I was generally a little over whelmed by the ruckus. I guess it didn’t help that I’m a bit of a snob but can I help it if I expect a certain standard from people and their pets (and progeny for that matter). Truly, the other puppies were quite well behaved, if it wasn’t for the Hellspawn I think the session would have been much more successful.

We didn’t really learn much, I’ve already mastered sit and I know my name. The treats were good.