Great Class!

Blitz update: after speaking with the specialist I'm not worried at this point. He'd never heard of such a thing so I did some research (so lucky to be in the days of Google!) and found out that some humans who have DM have experienced esophageal bleeding. I've always suspected the esophagus has been affected as his voice has always had a husky quality to it. So he gets excited, his blood pressure goes up, and those tiny veins burst in the weakened areas causing bleeding - that is my theory. Interestingly enough we had a good tug game today as well as the daily run/fetch and he didn't bleed at all. Was he less excited or was this just a quick downturn? We'll never know I hope!
Today was supposed to be the first day of obedience puppy class but no one showed up...one person was sick, another had car trouble, and another was at their nationals and out of town. However one student came early with his American Pit Bull so we did some training with them. This dog is a lovely representative of her breed - wish there were more responsible owners like these people! She failed to hold her stand for exam because she was so excited I came to "pet" her and wanted to kiss my hand. She's a very bouncy happy dog and it was a great test to see if we could do some attention work with the bouncing bully dog! Moto is like his dad it seems in that he is a very serious worker and he paid attention whenever it was asked. I was thrilled with this. We did some lateral work which is coming along very quickly.
The next big obstacle is to really work that retrieve. He still doesn't have a good concept of it yet, and we'll be introducing the dumbell in a few weeks, once most of those adult teeth are in.
But today was a great day and I'm very proud of my Moto Man!