We took Neo to a Country show last Sunday at Kelmarsh. It was his first experience of such a large crowd of people and dogs and he behaved extremely well.
It seemed that every other person had a dog with them and being such a friendly Rottie he absolutely loved it, what was great was that we didn't have to worry about 'not so friendly' dogs as it wasn't the place you'd get away with taking an aggressive dog.
He also got his first look at Ducks, Goats, Pigs and Chickens, thankfully all were safely secured in pens as he just wanted to play with them!
Am looking forward to taking him to another soon.

I've purchased a 'Dogmatic' halti as while at the show I had to keep him on a fairly short lead which led to a lot of pulling, normally he is pretty good and doesn't pull but I think there was so much going on he was just impatient to greet the next dog or get to the next smell.

We had a go with it today, I put it on him when it arrived and gave lots of treats then took it off, later on I did the same again then we went for a short walk in it this afternoon. He has taken to it pretty well, he doesn't make drastic attempts to get it off, a few half hearted attempts when he thought I wasn't watching! He isn't totally happy with it and makes a face when he tries to pull and ends up facing me! I do think its going to make a big difference though so we'll be persevering with it.

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