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Marstad One For The Road CD RE CGC

Tony got the last leg of his CD at Mount Diablo DTC trial in Martinez with a score of 177 on Aptil 27.  It was hot. We were the last dog in. He forgot how to finish. He almost melted on the groups. I forgot that if the dog isn’t looking at you, giving the hand signal to finish is a futile exercise. And when the nice judge let us have a do over on the finish, I forgot that the verbal command to finish is around, not heel. We were out of the ribbons by two points, but hey it’s the green one that counts.

Here he is with his celebratory dinner

This here is the score board from our last Rally Ex A run at Gavilan Kennel Club (April 25). We are “dog and handler number 56″ and we got a first place with the barely qualifying score of 75. What gives? Well everyone else did even worse because they all NQ’ed. You see, there were gophers tunnels all over the rally course, with gophers periodically popping out of them. And the other dogs were terriers and a couple of spaniels and therefore were way more interested in the gophers than the “heel, sit, here, watch me, watch ME, COME, LEAVE IT, NO!!!!!” noises coming from their handlers. Tony and I managed to scrape by with lots of NO’s and LEAVE IT’s, but only just barely, and only because no gophers were actually visible at the time.

Yeah, so he’s got his RE now.