Dog day afternoon

Raina Mortenson held an obedience class for dogs on Friday, July 1st in Trafton Park which included learning the rules of dog showmanship.

I attended the course with my Siberian Husky puppy, Kaya. We started out the event by making our own showmanship lead by braiding paracord, we then began practicing simple commands with our dogs. We had our dogs walk at the same pace with us on our left side, while turning and stopping randomly.

The hardest part of this course was definitely trying to get Kaya to pay attention at all times. After we had tried our best to perfect this seemingly easy ta...