Pictures and commentary courtesy of Jen Woodard
Jen Woodard is currently the LA Programs Manager with the Best Friends Animal Society, a dog trainer, and a former shelter manager with a personal and professional passion for pit bulls. She absolutely loved the class!
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| Jen, Bo and Deimos hiking at Etiwanda preserve 2010 |
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| Linus & Violet |
PIT BULL CLASS AT THE COLISEUM!
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| Lori and Stone talk to some of the classmates |
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| Lori (with Stone) |
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| Heading over to start class |
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| Some of the guys in class |
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| Debbie gets everyone in line for heeling |
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| We walk all around the coliseum area |
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| Lori and Stone get ready for class to start |
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| Really cool sight! |
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| Of course I had to stop and take a picture of Violet in front of the Coliseum. |
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| short pause with commands… |
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| Coming around this corner I could hear a dog barking out of control but when I turned, it was a lady coming towards us with her German Shepherd lunging toward each of these dogs. What did the pit bulls do? Not a thing! Not one barked or lunged back. That’s what training, socilization and hard exercise will do. |
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| Mom and her baby |
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| In this section they needed to get their dogs up on the bench. Just the owner made it up in this duo. |
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| This one, however, was made for agility. Her mom and dad are hoping to do that with her. |
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| Young guy and his dog. He loved that dog! |
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| At the end, the last command was to have the dogs jump up and sit on those cement posts. |
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| Yup, this guy did the training too! And his dog – 2 years old! She’s so tiny…and apparently was from Ohio (where they are banned…go figure). |
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| This young pup was also very tired after the walk/training. |
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| This young guy took my card and asked if I could help him learn to be a dog trainer. He fosters and rescues dogs on his own and wants to do that as a career! |
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| Coach and Big Boy show off… and yes, Big Boy has balls. 🙁 |
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| But Big Boy is a very handsome dog. |
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| There were ladies in the class too with their pitties |
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| And Miss Violet, just 2 days from her eye surgery showed off her sit stay – many compliments at how awesome she is and 2 requests to breed her if she wasn’t already spayed. 🙂 |
