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Adventures in Poodle training...

Not a bad way to end the season... :-)

11/5/2016

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After last week's unfortunate flop, we had one more chance to rack up points in CDSP obedience.  Tova in Raymond, NH held a single evening trial Friday night, and while I was hesitant to enter something that might have us working late (remembering the evening AKC trial where we were competing at 10pm!), I took my chances since it was the last nearby CDSP trial of the year, and easy enough a drive to deal with being out late if it came to that.
It ended up working out well, and ended at a reasonable time.  Even though I did end up eating dinner at home at 9:30 pm.  Oh well.  It was worth it...

But first, during the day on Friday, we took a jaunt to Wolfeboro, just to walk around town, do some shopping, and reminisce a bit.  And snap a few fun pics.  We didn't have time to check out the rail trail as planned, but all the more reason to go back.

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Best NQ ever!

11/1/2016

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I think I may have used that title before.  But this HAS to beat anything else we've done.  Or should I say, almost done.  LOL

We were entered in trial 1 at Waggin Tails in Westford, MA on Oct. 29.  Big trial, lots of entries.  How exciting.  :-)  Tripp (ok, both of us) had received lots of compliments last weekend, but I think he topped himself this weekend.  He was SO good!

Me, on the other hand, well... I've done far worse, but I messed up my signal during the directed retrieve (don't even ask why/how! LOL) which confused the poor boy.  Tripp made a wide swing, then went for the wrong glove.  I groaned.  He stopped and just stood there asking me what the heck I wanted from him.  XD  He redirected well, but alas my brain fart resulted in an NQ.  Ah, it happens. 

But what a bummer - if I hadn't thrown him off, and he did both gloves as well as everything else, we would have finished with a nearly perfect score (including earning all 20 points in baseball!) of 219.5!  OMG.  And that would have put us almost halfway to OTCH.  Oh well.  Next time...
obedience score sheet
Tripp's score sheet for his almost perfect run. I've never seen so many zero point deductions! And maximum bonus points in baseball! That would have been one amazing Q. And possibly even HIT!
I will still savor his almost perfect performance, even if we got nothing to show for it.  But hey, we did get it on video!  :-D
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