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We’re back from the Obedience Trial.  We don’t have any Q’s to show for our weekend, but I was thrilled with Twist nonetheless.  On Friday, he did a good job, but he anticipated the drop on recall and so we failed that exercise and NQ’d.  In the out of site stay groups, the dog next to Twist got up and was tried to leave the ring, but Twist held his stays beautifully despite the distraction.  I was really proud of him.  Anyway, here is the video of yesterday exercises.

Today, Twist did a much better job than yesterday on everything, his heeling was better, he got all his finishes and we were sitting on a score of 192 1/2 when we went in for the stays.  Unfortunately, for whatever reason, Twist layed down right away during the out of site sit.    So another NQ for us today.  The out of site down stay was really exciting.  Seriously.  LOL  Right at the end of the 5 minutes, we were all lined up to return to the ring, when the ring exploded into action.  As we came around the corner all I could see was that all the dogs but 2 were up and running around the ring.  So, I guess what happened was that a pigeon had flown down and all through the stays was walking around just outside the ring taunting the dogs.  Right before we came back, the bird actually came into the ring, and then decided to fly.  That was just too much for the dogs closest and they broke to chase it.  When they broke, so did the rest of the line.  I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like it!  Anyway, there were three dogs that were qualifying up to that point, so the judge let them re-test the long down.  One was a friend of mine and her dog passed and Q’d. 

Anyway, my camera malfunctioned today and for whatever reason, my computer is saying that it can’t recognize the files, so I don’t have the video of Twist for today.  If I get it figured out, I’ll post it later.