Pinch Makes Progress

Having a puppy is sooooo much fun. Don't know why, but I'm enjoying Pinch's puppyhood and savoring every moment. Didn't get to enjoy Blitz's as he was ill, and Moto's puppyhood got pushed aside because of the car accident.
This pup loves to learn and I'm looking forward to our second puppy class this Wednesday. Tonight is his second conformation class. At this point he still is of conformation quality. Sheltie pups change so much it's almost impossible to tell for several months if they will make it into the conformation ring. To me he's the most beautiful puppy and a judge would be a fool to give a blue ribbon to anyone other than him, but I'm prejudiced.
He has no problem running 'round the conformation ring with other dogs, can stack and stand and pose very nicely. No problem on the table and loves the judge's going over.
My next hope is that he has herding instincg. He didn't show much interest his first exposure but heck I'd only had him 24 hours at that point. We were going to see sheep yesterday but a silly thunderstorm got in the way. Maybe next weekend.
Meantime I've been working on heeling with Moto. He's going to need a lot more work in this department. I found an interesting trial in August that we'll try our hand at Novice again in one of those nonregular classes. Once again I'll assess how he's coming along before entering him in "real" classes.
The weather has been so bad this year - bitter cold and lots of snow and spring/summer has been hot, extremely humid with lots of rain. This makes training outdoors difficult.
Puppy training is easy as Pinch doesn't neeed a lot of room....yet. But keeping Mr. Moto tuned up has been challenging.