cooper adventures

Cooper is now 8 months old! He is growing up fast. He finally learned how to lift his leg and not fall over. He is still working on his aim, but he is getting better. :)

He is back in obedience classes slowly learning how to obey. Last week I took him to class by myself which was no big deal. I was looking forward to it a little bit. I got to Petsmart, opened the back hatch of the car Cooper faked to the right, I leaned to catch him just in time for him to jump out the left side of the car and run straight to the front doors of PetSmart. When he got to the doors I thought "oh good they doors will stop him" he ran head first into the automatic door that didn't open when he ran up to them. He took a couple steps back, the doors opened, and in ran Cooper with me chasing after him leaving the car doors open. Luckily Cooper ran straight in to class and not to the small animal section. I got Cooper on his leash and went back to lock the car and get everything situated.

Later in class we were suppose to be working on a sit stay. Cooper was sitting next to a fish tank. He was casually looking around and pressed his nose against the class of the fish tank. The fish scattered and you could see a light go off in Cooper's head. So Cooper spent the remainder of his Sit-Stay looking away from the fish and then suddenly look back at the fish pressing his nose against the glass making them once again scatter. He was quite proud of himself.

He is quite good at entertaining himself. Yesterday as I was getting ready for bed Cooper noticed himself in our floor length mirror. He gave a little woof so I walk over to see what it was about. Suddenly Cooper realized I was in the mirror too! Cooper started barking, growling, and backing away from the mirror. I went over to the mirror and sat down by it. Cooper slowly moved closer and closer to the mirror until his nose touched the mirror. He jumped back and growled. He continue trying to sniff the dog in the mirror, but it just kept copying him. Finally I had to make it so he couldn't see in the mirror so that we could go to sleep. Silly puppy. I love his antic. It is hard not to laugh when he decides to be cute. How could someone not love and Irish Water Spaniel?