AKC Obedience

Gidget and I tried an AKC Obedience trial again.  We haven't done one in quite some time.  It was badly timed being right after the holiday break from classes.  Plus the class the week before the trial was canceled due to it being really freaking cold!  Plus I got really sick the week before the trial.  We went and gave it a try anyways.

It went well enough.  Our heeling was atrocious.  Gidget was definitely not in the game for our on leash heeling.  She was laggy and distracted and didn't sit at our halts.  The figure 8 was a tiny bit better, she sat at least. 

Her stand for exam was perfect, as usual.

Gidget had a better attitude for the off leash heeling.  This time she forged a little, nipped at my pants a bit, paid more attention, and even sat on the halts.  We still lost a lot of points, but I was happier with her.

Gidget lost only 1 point on her recall!  I was pretty excited about that.  She didn't anticipate and her front was reasonably straight!  Still room for improvement, but not much.

We had qualified (I was kind of surprised with how bad our heeling was) at this point so in we went for the stays.  Nothing exciting for the sit stay, she was very good.  We got through most of the down stay when someone set up the broad jump in the ring next to us.  Well Gidget didn't like that noise and sat up.  Bummer, we were so close. 

We'll try again at the end of Feb.  At the beginning of Feb. we're up to get Gidget's CD-C (CDSP).  I hope it goes well!  Happy training!