Fist exercise was a round the clock dummy retrieve. A few of the dogs in our group did it quite well. A bit more practice needed all round. Chester and I .... RUBBISH!! His mark on the dummies is spot on (he usually points at them!), he run out is also fab, his retrieve .... not so great. He generally ran around in a big circle, even swapped dummies once! Bought a few back, ran off to the other group, stole one of their dummies then decided it was more fun to retrieve a cone! terrible, just terrible ....
It was then time for the group to complete a progress test. Fairly simple, just stage 1 but anything can go wrong (see above!).
Chester and I went up for a practice. Heel work to cone, sit and stay while I walked away and wait for 30 seconds, then recall. All perfect ... yipee!
Two seen retrieves. First one he did a de-tour via the dummy thrower but second one he bought back nicely to me.
Time for the test. By this time, Chester knew there was a retrieve involved so little chance he was going to sit still for 30 seconds! We attempted it but he broke a few times :( Did two lovely retrieves at the end.
Not sure if we actually passed. Maybe if they took into account the practice and the test combined then we'll make it!
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