Back from training on a beautiful sunny warm toronto day! Yeah. But oh my do Razz and I ever have a huge way to go in obedience!
He had like zero focus on me, constantly broke sit then sit stay, then down and down stay. I think my eyes are still crossed from all that repetition. Only training him in the house for the past three months or so, sure did set us back. My mantra is patience, patience, patience. So got my homework from Ilona, and we meet up again on thurs. She was not pleased with my training at all
I also asked her when can I let him run and retreive his toys? She said not here, not now, you got to get serious with him, just like Magic. She said forget this he is a wee boy, this is a Working dog, treat him just like Magic. Discipline him for lack of obedience. She said Magic (who was in a leash free down stay, the whole time I worked with Razz), said Magic has rarely taken his eyes off you...that is what you want from Razz!.
On the plus note, Magic did great. We quickly worked him up through his CD level, and started working on Recall Down. which he did very well at the beginning stages (which is where we left off, when he/then I were injured). Ilona finally started to smile after 40 minutes of Razz and I. Our challenge will be to work him at CDX without reinjuring his back. We will do it too. She said, she thinks we will get this quickly, once we trial. I said yes I think so just like CD, one/two three competitions then we are done. It's funny, I don't remember Magic being so hard to work with as a youngster. But he was my hubby reminded me, of how many hours I put into his obedience.
Anyhow thanks for listening. Oh the joys of obedience work
