Kat/Riley 9/25: FC Week 2 and RC Lesson 6 Exams

 Day two of the Kat/Riley Turbo Exam Extravaganza! 😂

We started with our RC Lesson 6 Retrieve Exam:

Kat made a rookie mistake- both dogs were kenneled before training, and I let them both out and let them play while I got everything set up. 🤦‍♀️ The result of this was that Riley was absolutely tuckered by the time we started our exam practice. 

Fortunately she’s a very ‘good retwiever dog’, and I think she did pretty well on this exam! 

I tried to do ‘jump-jump’ with her afterward and she would. NOT. She was just too hot and tired. So we went inside and had some quiet time for roughly 45 minutes-1 hour. 

Then we tried ‘jump-jump’ again:

Not my best work.

Riley did okay in spite of me, though. 

Finally we moved over to under our pavilion and worked on FC Week 2 Exam:

Moving immediately from RC to FC causes my brain trouble- Riley really would have benefited from a LL warmup before we did this exam. 

Second takeaway: I’m pretty sure after today we won’t be doing an FC Exam every day. I think Week 2 is basic enough that, even though it wasn’t perfect, we handled it pretty well. After this I am thinking we will each need a couple days to refine our work before each exam. 

Onto FC Week 3, and RC Week 7!