Originally Posted by
Scoutpout
that all looks so extremely difficult....yikes.
And big congrats on the steady! i'm hoping i don't get yanked off my feet tomorrow. still using a slip lead for the honour and blind hold. and i don't want a repeat of yanking out of my hand and trying to beat the retrieving dog swimming to the floating mark... ohhhhh, soooo soooo bad....
we have dead duck day tomorrow, after missing a week and there being no "class" last week. so two weeks...our homework had been - pick up what you're sent out for, as the last class, Scout decided on the land work he would only pick up dead things, not any never-been-alive things...to the point of seeing it was a dokken/bumper, then heading over to the gunner and bird bucket. oy.
so, he's only had dokkens and dummies for the 5 or so times we've had time to "play" in the interim. The looks i've been getting from him are priceless, he gets ramped up when he sees the field bag (as opposed to the show bag) come out, and when i use the duck call, man, he's trembling. "go" and he goes out to the mark all quick like, gets to it, turns and looks at me like "what the H*LL is THIS???" gets a reminder to bring it back, begrudgingly retrieves it (although, he's bringing to hand, yay! not dropping 2 feet from me!), gets praised, and positioned for the next one. It gets better each send, almost like, ok, if THIS is all I get to play with, fine...
anyway, have fun if you get to go play tomorrow - off to bed for us now so we can get up and at it before it gets warm - land stuff 1st, then off to the water training spot as it gets later in the morning.