Practicing Open

Went to the club building on Friday, the trainer didn't show, so Quinn and I practiced an open routine. He's doing very well, we need some more practice on the drop on recall. His broad jump was very good considering we haven't done it in about 2 months. His retrieves are fantastic as usual.

I worked a bit on the Graduate Novice exercise the dumbbell recall. The dog takes the dumbbell, you tell them to stay, walk across the ring and call him. Quinn really wanted to heel with the db in his mouth. That's really a favorite exercise.

We practiced a bit on directed jumping: sending him out to a target and jumping the high and bar jump on command. We didn't make much progress on that exercise.

Afterwards, I took him to PetsMart and we practiced B.A.T. with the store employees and any customers in the store (no dogs to use as decoys).

At one point a customer asked if I'd put a coat on Quinn to see if it would fit him. I said yes and put Quinn in a stand stay, stepped on the leash and put the coat on him. It barely fit and he was miserable, "Bad, Mommy!"

Really he didn't care that someone was looking at him, he didn't care about the stand-stay. He hated having to wear a coat!

Hope to meet up with the trainer next week.