Life with Joey: CD Title!

We earned our CD and did our first Open leg this weekend.
We did our first Open Match on Friday, and Joey did very well in that. Except the retrieve on flat and the out of site Stays. We were still entered for Novice the next day but I wanted to get some practice in Open.

Saturday, was our Novice A run. I was unusually nervous, well maybe not. (Does any one not get nervous?). But, I did have a harder time than usually fighting down the jitters. Maybe it was because it was our last Novice leg and a chance to earn the CD title. Joey did very well in the ring. His heeling was very nice, and though he lagged a little it was overall very pretty. His stand was rock solid. And though his recall was messy, (a crooked sit and finish) I was so happy that we made it though I couldn't care less. After that was the stays Joey was rock solid and we qualified!! Our score was 189.5 again. There is something about that score, all three of Joey's legs were 189.5. Our Judge, Brian Cleveland took 5 points for off leash and 4.5 for on leash, and 1 point for the recall. Personally, I thought the heeling scores were a bit low, Joey did not lag that much. But, we qualified, got first place,(out of five dogs) and got our title.

Sunday, I decided to move Joey up to Open. Though we did not qualify I was still very proud of Joey. His heeling was awful, he was totally not there, but his drop on recall was gorgeous, and he did get the dumbbell on the flat. We NQed on the retrieve over the jump, which Joey usually loves, because I had to give Joey an extra command. And we finished strong with the broad Jump. The stay's were awful as I expected. Joey got up on the sits after about a minuet.I going to start seriously practicing stays in different places, we are really having a problem with them. Overall, I was happy with Joey. It wasn't bad for our first time in Open.

Novice Pictures