josebrwn
15th March 2004, 00:15
Got back from our first UKC OB trial. We FAILED!! Two hours on the highway, then sat around for SEVEN HOURS waiting, and in five minutes we FLUNKED! AAAAAArrrrggghh...........
I don't know why I do this to myself. It's so weird in competition. Like at our BH, Bess has the most solid long down but in competition she broke it. She has a lazy recall, but in competition she ran full speed and almost knocked the wind out of me. In practice she recalls over a meter hurdle. Today she wouldn't jump 20 inches. She wandered away from me, she sat facing me instead of at heel, anything that could have gone wrong, did go wrong. I feel like crap.
Otherwise a pretty good weekend. Bess got to exchange breath with some nice horses and met her first pig, big fat breeder sow, that was interesting. She liked the horses ok, wanted to play but when she saw that pig man, she wanted to RUMBLE.
New folks from the puppy class graduated and were out for traning with the big dogs. Fella with a Von Waldberg GSD said within earshot of me, "you gotta see this dog, she is so smart!" Well if he was buttering me up it worked cause 10 minutes later I had him and his pup out of the field telling him every little thing I knew about learning the SchH OB routine. Then we went out tracking, got a field almost a mile long. Went out in the middle and laid a track, ended up going right past a huge skeleton of something. Went back and got Bess and she trailed right to my track, way out thru the swamp and sedge grass, I couldn't believe it.
Anyway, I'm gonna finish this fifth of whisky and go beat my dog or something. Grrrrrrrr.
I don't know why I do this to myself. It's so weird in competition. Like at our BH, Bess has the most solid long down but in competition she broke it. She has a lazy recall, but in competition she ran full speed and almost knocked the wind out of me. In practice she recalls over a meter hurdle. Today she wouldn't jump 20 inches. She wandered away from me, she sat facing me instead of at heel, anything that could have gone wrong, did go wrong. I feel like crap.
Otherwise a pretty good weekend. Bess got to exchange breath with some nice horses and met her first pig, big fat breeder sow, that was interesting. She liked the horses ok, wanted to play but when she saw that pig man, she wanted to RUMBLE.
New folks from the puppy class graduated and were out for traning with the big dogs. Fella with a Von Waldberg GSD said within earshot of me, "you gotta see this dog, she is so smart!" Well if he was buttering me up it worked cause 10 minutes later I had him and his pup out of the field telling him every little thing I knew about learning the SchH OB routine. Then we went out tracking, got a field almost a mile long. Went out in the middle and laid a track, ended up going right past a huge skeleton of something. Went back and got Bess and she trailed right to my track, way out thru the swamp and sedge grass, I couldn't believe it.
Anyway, I'm gonna finish this fifth of whisky and go beat my dog or something. Grrrrrrrr.