Kat/Riley 9/26: FC Week 3, Body Bend Readiness and RC Lesson 7 Exams

 Fun night tonight! I had a busy (and fun!) morning with a simulation at work, so I didn’t get to work the dogs before it got way too hot. I let the pups play at home for a bit, kenneled both of them, and left my Niko home and had Riley join us at my son’s soccer game. 

We started with the Longe line tonight- I can learn! And then moved to the tennis courts. I thought, ‘why not try it?’ So I set up the pipes and heeled her through them for a few minutes. She did great! Only one OUT when she was dragging and knocked over some two pipes.

She did so great, we started the camera and recorded the best body bend exam I have ever recorded. 😂

Then we headed over closer to the distractions and did 6 retrieves at the ground! I should have done one EC when I knocked the dumbbell out of her mouth, but technically I still should have been caging and not trying to knock it out, sooooooo…. 🤪

I attempted quiet time… not quite successfully… and then decided she probably needed a good run to get some wiggles out. 

She also has been great with my boys and husband! 😄

Slowly but surely we will get there.

 Today after working Lena I wanted to work Z on some retrieves. I don’t know about my little retriever dog.  Some times she does great while other times not so good. 😊 But I am seeing tiny bits of progress. On the last retrieve I threw it a bit too far. Oops. She started out good, seen she was heading for a big scary rock 😱, turned to me in hesitation, I didn’t want her to fail so I took a few steps to let her know she was ok and doing what she was supposed to. She did manage to go get it and bring it back so huge success. Overall from where we started just 14 short weeks ago, I’m pretty impressed.