Practicing Open

Went to the club building on Friday, the trainer didnt show, so Quinn and I practiced an open routine. Hes doing very well, we need some more practice on the drop on recall. His broad jump was very good considering we havent 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. Thats 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 didnt 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 Id 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 didnt care that someone was looking at him, he didnt care about the stand-stay. He hated having to wear a coat!

Hope to meet up with the trainer next week.

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