All the Utility!

Agility on Saturday, back to obedience on Sunday. I love my Toller :) CDSP obedience of course, no AKC meltdowns here.

Vito was a very good Toller. A bit worried about the judge at the start but as soon as we started the short heeling pattern CDSP has on signals he did so with great energy and focus. And did his signals! We continually work so hard on trying to make downs fun for Vito, they're just not his thing.

A bit more distracted during article setup, but then he lasered his eyes into me during the long delay as I think the judge tried to flip the article the other way. I admit his intense focus during that wait was my favorite part of the run.

On go outs every dog got sucked into where the article pile was in the corner. I've done gloves to the corner followed by go outs, but apparently not articles there before! I was proud to see Vito go straight! And then got sucked into that corner when I cued the sit. On the 2nd send he made sure to ignore my sit cue as well to go touch the gate... twice. Smart Toller.

Gloves were the best he has ever done in a trial. Actually pivoted well! And we have been working hard on making gloves fun after some weird avoidance issues since the last trial so I was relieved not to see that show up here.

Finally on the moving stand Vito stood very well for what seemed like an extra thorough exam! Hesitant coming in again on the call to heel so something to work on I guess.

A Q in Utility!

Corgi
Mr. Corgi also got to play. We did his usualy WCRL rally run in level 3. For whatever reason he was actually quiet for the entire first half of the run! No barks on the pivoting! And then his corgi sass came out for the 2nd half...

I also entered Lance in Utility for the first time since his retirement. Not expecting much since well you actually have to practice to qualify. But Corgi always loved to show.

Lots of great moments, and some sass of course.

On Signals Lance did his down which made me so happy since that was one point that did stress him out about utility. And then he said he knew the pattern and went straight to his sit. I wasn't sure what to do there, so I gave a sit signal anyway and smiled when he lifted his butt so he could sit again :)

Articles showed his old habit of grabbing so fast that it just falls out of his mouth a few steps later. But good boy.

On go outs Lance got sucked into that pesky article spot like the others. Ignored my cue to sit and just came to me on the first one. On the 2nd one he sat, and then started to go while the judge was talking to me about what I wanted to do. I tried to signal the far jump but I admittedly didn't cue it with my normal eye flick and pause first. Not surprised he just came to me.

Gloves were also pretty good on the pivot. I underrotated a bit as I was rusty too and forgot that usually ended up happening to me in trials. I had to always do a 2 step pivot towards #3 in a trial to get lined up correctly even though I never had issues in practice. It probably helped him though as the other dogs couldn't find the glove behind the poles.

The moving stand had naughty forging and then not actually staying. Eh.