From Yuka Dawson, Instructor at Mercy First

After the last graudation on Nov. 4th, MercyFirst welcomed 4 of Blueberry's fluff balls: Carmel, Brandy, Nut Meg, and Crisco.
They are the best sleepers ever! The first night away from their brothers and sisters, every single one of them slept 7 hours without having accidents.
All of them are very calm puppies!

Mercy First boys are having the best time. The advantage of having puppies is that the boys can experience "teaching" a simple task and experience an immediate success. Each student is paired with another trainer and the pair is assigned to a pup and an intermediate dog.

I am expecting my students to grow tremendously as trainers after working with an advanced dog for the first 2 months, then moving down to intermediate dogs and puppies.

It's a joy to watch my students' eyes light up with small successes they have with the puppies.

Photo: Bilal with Crisco

Yuka Dawson, Instructor from MercyFirst

Reptiles on the Move!
A few varieties of reptiles visited the campus of MercyFirst!

My afternoon group was the lucky one and got to meet the reptiles.
Of course, the students brought their dogs along.

As the reptiles were handed over, the dogs just sat and stayed under the chair.
Good thing, none of them (both dogs and students) freaked out because of the reptiles!

It was an odd, but a fun experience to touch different kinds of reptiles.

Whatever the animal it is, they are all soothing and put a smile on everyone's faces!

Yuka Dawson, Instructor from MercyFirst

Wesley, a veteran student trainer from MercyFirst, got to meet the Dog Whisperer, Ceser Millan!
Ceser was at Book Revue for book signing for his new book, "How to Raise a Perfect Dog." No dogs were allowed in the book store, but Service Dog in training, Angel, was allowed!!
Wesley shook the legend's hand, had his book signed, and gave him ECAD's information.
We are hoping that he will visit our program one day :)