I always love your dog show photos so much, you always capture the absurdity so well. And I just adore that last photograph, that's a bond, right there.
You are so right about obedience. I love the exercises, they're so fun to train, but I'm not a fan of the long stretches without reinforcement/reward. And I'm not so good with all the rules myself, let alone for my dog. I found a few more casual venues that I think are amazing, so one could say I'm really never going to amount to too much in obedience, because I want to go to the shows that let me talk to my nervous dog. :-)
Yeah, we don't have a lot of alternative venues up here. We have UKC, ASCA and AKC, all of which are pretty traditional. Kudos to AKC for the low jump height options in preferred though!
Why is that woman hanging a chow? And she's enjoying it too! Lol. Congrats Haku. He's very fun to watch because you can totally see how much fun he's having.
Chow fell off the ramp. Chows are not very agile. And many of them did not appear to have eyes. Purebred folks need to take a real good look at what they're doing to dogs. And Haku is a simple boy, that helps in obedience, I think. ;-)
Thanks! Someone once described the utility exercises as the 'thinking' ones, the dog has to make all these decisions on their own, with minimal handler support - very different then a lot of obedience!
Congratulations! I bet you will be checking the numbers on your articles when you scent them from now on. ;-) [Edit to delete that other stupid sentence which you already know, sorry.]
Slider was a lot like Haku, doing obedience was so much fun for him that he didn't mind the lack of reward issue. And Utility was our favorite class. I don't miss obedience trials though. You two are doing so great, I hope you continue on. Especially with the P option and no group stays!
And I am with Navarre, the tire is such a stupid obstacle. He looked like a big dog in that run!
Thanks Jo! I am so not a fan of group stays, and I don't understand the appeal to anyone, really. It's been fun learning as we've gone down the obedience path, but I'm not thinking I'll be one of those that sticks with it for 40 years. But then again, you never know ...
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You are so right about obedience. I love the exercises, they're so fun to train, but I'm not a fan of the long stretches without reinforcement/reward. And I'm not so good with all the rules myself, let alone for my dog. I found a few more casual venues that I think are amazing, so one could say I'm really never going to amount to too much in obedience, because I want to go to the shows that let me talk to my nervous dog. :-)
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Why is that woman hanging a chow? And she's enjoying it too! Lol. Congrats Haku. He's very fun to watch because you can totally see how much fun he's having.
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Slider was a lot like Haku, doing obedience was so much fun for him that he didn't mind the lack of reward issue. And Utility was our favorite class. I don't miss obedience trials though. You two are doing so great, I hope you continue on. Especially with the P option and no group stays!
And I am with Navarre, the tire is such a stupid obstacle. He looked like a big dog in that run!
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