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    Yellow girls made their Open debut this past weekend

    They both did well. Cookie earned an Open B 3rd with a 197 despite needing work on her fronts and finishes. Sass had 2 substantials that kept her out of the ribbons (she was .5 behind the 4th place dog). One was my fault - I had (several) bad dumbbell throws and since we haven't worked the piece of her waiting quietly while the judge retrieves it for a retry, she broke and tried to get it herself. Could have been an NQ but he'd heard me tell someone it was her first time in the ring so just took a substantial (and gave great advice for how to deal with it if it happened again, which is did on the next throw, LOL). She also had a no-sit on one finish due to judge pressure - she swung into heel position and froze like a deer in the headlights staring at the judge like "why is that man standing there looking at me". I know judge pressure is a thing to work on with her (hard to simulate when I am training on my own) but I did have to laugh since this was the final exercise and he'd been watching her the whole time. So 6 points on stuff that we haven't worked on enough but the stuff we have worked she only lost 1.5 points on - without the breaking for the dumbbell between exercises and a with a sit on the finish she would have had a 198.5 and been in a run-off for 2nd with a friend's dog who is working on his OTCH and was 10th at Nationals. Very, very happy with both of them.
    Annette

    Cookie (HIT HC Jamrah's Legally Blonde, UDX, OM2, BN) 6/4/2015
    Sassy (HIT Jamrah's Blonde Ambition, UDX, OM2, BN) 6/4/2015

    Chloe (HIT HC OTCH Windsong's Femme Fatale, UDX4, OM6, RE) 6/7/2009

    And remembering:

    Scully (HC Coventry's Truth Is Out There, UD, TD, RN) 4/14/1996 - 6/30/2011
    Mulder (Coventry's I Want To Believe, UD, RN, WC) 5/26/1999 - 4/22/2015

    And our foster Jolie (Windsong's Genuine Risk, CDX) 5/26/1999 - 3/16/2014

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    Great work, little girls! Your girls will make their Momma proud, assuming Chloe thinks about those things! I especially like your description of Sass and the judge's facedown.

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    Very nice job!!

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    We are learning all these things you mentioned in his Attention class and as someone who really knew nothing about obedience (6 months ago I would have had no idea what you were even talking about!), I am even more impressed when people can compete their dogs this way! Congratulations!!

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    Please come to a trial in S. Ont., near me, so I can go watch. This would have been nice to see.
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    Wowwweeee!!! That's fantastic!!! Congrats!!!
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    That's great!

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    Awesome concrats

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