Without them knowing what you're doing, reach back and get a handful of that skin that runs between the upper rear leg and the body. Grab and yank upward sharply. Most dogs will react by snapping back toward the unexpected sensation. Your job then is 1. Protect yourself 2. Get the undesirable object out of their range. (Hence this must be done on leash).What was the old trick by the way?
Yes, and it's weird, they assign you an hour - each hour has about 18 dogs in it - and you run BOTH your runs in that hour. I guess it keeps traffic down to less than 20 dogs. I'm guessing they must go through the soundness & heat check, then run in order and file around and start over. This club has been holding trials for years, so I guess they figured out what works best? But I can see how confining each hour to < 20 would keep confusion down. You don't come around when it's not your hour. The one I went to with Reckless in the fall of 2019 was pretty much chaotic.
oooooooh! Good advise! If I can remember it.
I just hoping there's no hiccups in catching her. I did a practice with having J hold Asha with the slip release collar and I walked away with the flirt pole/white bag down the driveway, popping it just a little. J released her at about 100 feet (not yards) out. Asha tore down the driveway, got the bag so fast the pole slipped out of my hand and she ran like a mad woman all over the property with the bag in her mouth and the pole bouncing around behind her. I called her and she would zoom to me but not slow down - shoot past, pole flopping. I had to go get a ball - as soon as she saw the ball in my hand she dropped the bag and came running to a good front. It was hysterical, but I'll def have a ball or tug on me at the finish to help catch her.
Or she might be so happy to see me at the other end there won't be a problem. I mean what a trauma to have been left with OTHER PEOPLE for all those many seconds??? Surely she will be glad to see me. LOL. I gotta go finish packing the car...
Oh, I just thought about heat. I would have to do this in as cold weather as possible with Oji.
We don't need no stinkin' plastic bag chasin'! My job is to protect mama! Good girl!!
I know she's quite an independent gal
Oh of course!Aren't you a teeny tiny bit happy to know she was more interested in you
I love her like nobody's business! We both learned a LOT. This was on the schedule a year ago to take Asha at 6 months to just go to the event, see & hear the chaos but not do anything. We didn't go because Covid was ramping up. It's way different than a dog show because the dogs are crazy intense for their turn, it's loud and noisy & if she'd been exposed to all that at a younger age without actually doing anything it would have been much better. If you have one close by you could take Ripley just to see. Sometimes they will do puppy runs - just show them the lure and let them chase it about 20 feet. They didn't do that here, but the one I went to a couple of years ago did.It was great exposure all around. LOL, I think that photo is more to do with the angle, but yes, big ol' feet. Also I followed some advise from here and didn't do her toenails for a couple of weeks, suppose to help them grip the ground. I'm pretty amazed (horrified?!) at how fast they grew! That'll be taken care of today for sure!
I know, right? The other Dobes there chased the bags. Some big ol' Euro dog - very much the kind you like - ran the course, but looked like he had army boots on while running. Another little bitch, light, slender American show type ran like a greyhound, very pretty running style. There was another, kind of halfway between those two in looks I didn't see her run. Times don't come out for a few days, they had two hand timers rather than standard electronic so no results until they compare the clockers notes.
Me too!!! And a de-stressor for a serious dog to just go have fun, forget about obedience and just get turned out on a beautiful grass baseball field to run as fast as you can? I thought she'd love it... I forgot about the part where independent means it has to be her idea and the fact that going back to the CGC title, leaving her with a trusted person and going out of sight for 3 minutes was her most difficult exercise. And actually when I was the one to show her the lure and release her she did focus on it and take off after it, even though she didn't stick with it for long. She had way more fun when I released her. It was worth the time & money just for the experience.
