Dawn and I, our 2 whippets, and our one year old son are in Nova Scotia at the CPE Nationals. It was a great trial. Lots of fun and lots of supportive, fun, and friendly people that CPE is known for.
Wyatt and I had some great runs. Things are really starting to click, just not 100% consistently. I did have a problem with start line stays in 2 standard runs where there was a contact discrimination first thing. That cost 2 Qs. Ouch. Have to work on that. Seems to be mostly at trials and first things in the morning when he is hyped up. (There is a video of one of these runs.) We had an awesome colors run (see video link) and also a great jackpot run (did not get the gamble) but the opening was one of our best runs ever (someone has this on video and I will post it later). I still tend to stop suddenly and pull him out of the gamble. I need to keep moving and turn just like I do on a normal tunnel (or whatever) send out.
Patriot and Dawn also had a good trial. Both dogs got 4 Qs each. The courses were challenging. Wyatt got a 4th in standard a 2nd in colors. First was Elise Paffrath, our instructor, who is a national ranked USDAA competitor so I had to be happy about that. Check out the video (especially the colors run)...
Video Link
-- John Heffernan
-- 99 North Hill Road
-- Conway, MA 01341
-- http://jheffernan.com/
-- http://goodwhippet.blogspot.com/
Whippet Wyatt of Dodge City, CD, RE, SC, NA, NAJ, OAC, EJC, OCC, TN-O, TG-N, WV-N, CL4-R, CL5-HSF, CGC “Wyatt”
Whippet AWC Triathlon Winner C-ATCH Ch Seaspell’s Concord Point, CAV, CD, SC, OA, OAJ, CR, OTR, NJC, TG-N, CGC “Patriot”
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