Winston was born for Agility Training. Toward the end of our first class at Four Paw, after he’d shown the class that he knows “touch me”, “watch me”, and other basic tricks and had made a few jumps, and was practicing his “wait”, Jan mentioned to the Eric that Winston was just a year old. The Eric, the instructor, was visibly astounded. “He’s only a year old!? I can see the flash bulbs popping and hear the crowds cheering now!”
Winston is certainly one of the cutest dogs on the face of the planet, but is he really that smart, or are his owners just seeing stars? Most dog owners believe their dog is wonderful and unique. Loving masters would do that, but both Peggy and I have skeptical, analytical minds. Honest. Early on we suspected that Winston had something special, and we get more convinced of it every day.
A week or so after we first got him, and he was still learning to be toilet trained, Peggy came back from Winston’s early morning walk and said, “Here’s something interesting. If he just pees and wants to go back in, I say ‘You’re not done yet’ and he goes back to the side of building and poops.”
Brilliant!
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