It's A Berner-ful Life: Obedience Fun Match

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Sunday, March 20, 2011

Obedience Fun Match

We spent the day today at an obedience fun match. I brought Maggie along to hang out and at the last minute I decided to enter her in Novice. I was glad I did. She has not done any real obedience training forever, but she was so good today, and even took the first place prize! She is such a good, fun heeling dog, and I love doing obedience with her. Too bad she has such bad ring nerves at real trials - she could easily finish her CD if she didn't get so stressed in the ring. I am not going to push it, as that's not really fair to her - she doesn't care anything about a silly title.

I entered Bosley in Open and he was a bit off today. Lagging on the heeling and was really, really interested in one of the posts on our figure 8. He never stops to sniff the post people. The rest was OK. I needed to give a second command on the retrieve on flat, which was weird. His drop was slow so I gave a second command on that as well. I don't know why our DOR is falling apart lately - he was so fast at it before. I guess a step back in training is in order.

After all the obedience was done, we had a mock Scent Hurdle trial and raced against another team. Bosley was awesome! He didn't make one mistake in any of the heats and we did many more heats in a row than we had ever done before. He was starting to run out of steam at the end, and was going slower, but he went out every time and always brought back the right dumbbell. He was a very good boy. Our whole team did so well today and I am really looking forward to our first "real" race in a couple weeks.

1 comment:

AnonymousMarch 21, 2011 at 9:07 AM
He looked good I thought. Happy to be in the ring. I do think he needed more of a warm up. It took him a bit to get into the swing of things.

I think with your drop you could probably just go back and do some random dropping in motion to get your fast drops back. Bosley is bored easily and I wonder if that what is happening.

And scenthurdle was awesome. :)

Amanda
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