Yikes - where have I been?
Where am I now? I think I left off at the training. Now, Jenny was VERY well behaved and had obviously been trained already. The trainers - Ed and Marie Wilson - told me that didn't matter, she needed to be trained again. In fact, Ed later said that it takes a year to get an adult adopted dog to become your dog. The truth is I needed to be trained and Jenny would just go along with it. So, Jenny re-learned everything and I was trained to work with her. When we first adopted Jenny I thought I had to figure out what words or commands she knew. Although she does talk a lot, she really doesn't speak English very well and it was hard to figure out what her vocabulary really was. So we started over and she either learned new words or we reinforced the ones she had already heard.
Even though Jenny finally passed the Canine Good Citizen test, we still go to as many classes as possible. There always seems to be a new slant on how to better understand dog behavior or even human behavior!