So I took my girl to a rally trial and they were accepting day of show entries and I saw on the veterans course list that there was a retrieve. She LOVES to retrieve, but at home we use a dumbell. I didn't bring it because I wasn't planning to enter her in vets, which has Level 1, 2 , and 3 exercises but no jumps (it's for oldies but goodies like her)
I have never trained her to retrieve a glove but she basically knows how to retrieve anything of mine that I send her towards, so I thought what the hey, we'll try because if she got to do the retrieve she'doesn't love that.
So I practiced with an old glove I found in my truck but it was gray and dirty and I was afraid she wouldn't be able to see it really well when I sent her to retrieve. But as luck would have it, I went to the gas station and found these bright yellow gloves on sale for $3! So I bought them for her.
I'v never competed her off leash and this is a HARD venue for her, she loves to sniff floors and this place is an old horse farm that no longer has horses and they use the old indoor arena for dog training. So dirt floor with decades of animal smell and pee in it. It's her spiffy paradise.
Shout out to my super star for doing a bang up job, winning the class, retrieving a glove when I have never practiced that before in her life, and NOT sniffing the floor!!! (admssion, we did bomb our first class due to floor sniffing lol, this was our second)
Way to go, girlie!! Here she is with her glove!
I have never trained her to retrieve a glove but she basically knows how to retrieve anything of mine that I send her towards, so I thought what the hey, we'll try because if she got to do the retrieve she'doesn't love that.
So I practiced with an old glove I found in my truck but it was gray and dirty and I was afraid she wouldn't be able to see it really well when I sent her to retrieve. But as luck would have it, I went to the gas station and found these bright yellow gloves on sale for $3! So I bought them for her.
I'v never competed her off leash and this is a HARD venue for her, she loves to sniff floors and this place is an old horse farm that no longer has horses and they use the old indoor arena for dog training. So dirt floor with decades of animal smell and pee in it. It's her spiffy paradise.
Shout out to my super star for doing a bang up job, winning the class, retrieving a glove when I have never practiced that before in her life, and NOT sniffing the floor!!! (admssion, we did bomb our first class due to floor sniffing lol, this was our second)
Way to go, girlie!! Here she is with her glove!