Fun Match

Last thursday was our last night in the latest series of 6 classes so we had a "match" with both of the competitive classes attending. This week for the first time ever we had the course numbered, which proved to be horribly easy. I think I actually like it better w/o numbers & the challenge of memorizing. Seems like I worked harder trying to figure out how to run it when I had to memorize it. Because the obstacles were numbered, I think she made the course tougher than normal though!

We started out pretty well - Mocca had a few instances of dawdling off course a bit sniffing for treats, but I managed to get her attention back more quickly and get on course w/o much hassle. We had a few minor handler-errors, and then there was a nice trap set up that Mocca just wouldnt do correctly. She was to go over the plank, but a tunnel was set up next to the plank - to "trap" the dogs into going into the tunnel instead of the plank. Well, Mocca LOVES a good tunnel and went for it about 3 times before we just had to skip the plant & continue on. Overall I was fairly happy with our performance. It wasnt perfect, but it was better than our last match, and we did the weaves 100% perfect and the majority of the course went pretty good as well.

I posted a picture of the course, of a dog actually doing the plank obstacle!