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First, No dogs were injured. Not even a scratch.

We've been taking our three and five year old EB's to basic obedience classes now that they are both retired from the show ring. As show dogs, they were discouraged from ever sitting or laying down so we never taught them the commands. Plus, these two have a history of scraping at the drop of a hat and we hoped that the side by side training would help with the problem.

Last night was graduation night and surprisingly, these two EB's are the class stars. Imagine that. To be fair, they're also the only adult dogs in the class. For six weeks, these guys have been on their best behavior without a hitch until last night. Everything was going great until the end when all the dogs got doggy ice cream treats and everyone was standing around chatting, not paying attention to the dogs, when my two EB's got into it over the ice cream and went at it. Pandimonium ensued as the mostly new dog owners freaked out at the sight of these two locked up trying to kill each other. Fortunately, the instructor owns several Pits and she and I got them seperated quickly and no damage was done to either dog and they went back to their ice cream like nothing happened.

The whole incident probably didn't take more than a minute but the lesson here is to be always aware of what the dogs are up to and monitoring their body language and other signs. Normally, this wouldn't happen because I watch them closely and see it coming before it happens. This time, I got distracted when there was high value treats around. Totally my fault.

We still graduated with honors though. LOL