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I'm probably going to be sadly disillusioned at her first HT, but I think the severe (because that's the best adjective I can think of to describe it...) obedience we've been using since our debacle...

I know, Anna. Ergh. It might be a disaster.

If she is a jerk on line on Thurs. I'll scratch her on Sat. But heck, how do you get a dog to run a MN or any event that runs for 4 or 5 days?

I decided to bag it. I know a bunch from my training circle went but judging from the texts everyone is sending around, it's a dicey drive.

SO... that will hugely UP THE STAKES for HT's in the...

Ugh... yin and yang. It is really hard to get a well balanced retriever. I think the food bowl thing might have been a bit much. She started to pop, which is amazing for a dog like RD. Her nature...

I couldn't work a wipe out bird in my back yard, but I could try for a little more handling control. So she had a couple of days of running blinds past her bowl of food!

The group is out there...

As I said, she would not handle and wanted to go back to where she had picked up the short bird. Last 2 days, I have been running some yard drills with orange bumpers (which dogs can't see) and that...

So the set up today was a fairly tight but doable double. The left bird wasn't thrown straight back, but close. The right one fell pretty close to the left hand gunner's hip pocket. But, it wasn't...