Sanders Loves to Party!

We had our first annual Groundhog Day Party, which was a great success! At first, Sanders was a little apprehensive about all the people coming...as he kept playing guard dog and barking at the first few visitors...eventually he realized all these people were his friends and that they would feed him things he wasn't supposed to have, and they'd all pet him! One of the highlights of the night is that our friend Karen was trying to teach Sanders the command "bang!". Basically, you say bang, and the dog plays dead. He was starting to understand what it was that he was supposed to do by the end of the mini-training session. I worked with him on it a little yesterday...and it is going to be a hard one to master. Here is Sanders with his buddy Karen:Sanders loves the dog park so much! Every time we pull into the drive way, he starts to get super hyper!!! Playing with the other dogs is such a great outlet of energy....and he gets to run at top speed. When he runs...he barely lets his feet hit the ground!We are also going to have to teach Sanders to pick on kids his own size.........And to quit showing off his pearly whites.....
We took this video at the dog park a week ago or so. Sanders made lots of friends. His boxer buddy liked to pin him down....see how much Sanders liked it?