What a very disappointing weekend!! I took Jessie to a local trial, in a building he trains at all the time. Seemed like the perfect place to pick up a UDX leg, but no luck at all. Jessie took a nap during both the sit stays! I was so mad at him. He’s done three passing sit stays in a row at trials, so going down twice really disappointed me.
Saturday he NQd in Utility as well. When I sent him for the go-out, he ran over to the high jump and gave it a good look. The judge, a wonderful woman named Carol Mett, teased me that he was checking the height. The 2nd go-out he started to do the same thing, but I caught him in time and gave him the go-out command again. The rest of the Utility run was great. Open was also just lovely, showing for Jon Mett, Carol’s husband, like he really knew what he was doing.
The second day we had two more beautiful runs. His score in Utility would have been the sort you write home about, except his first go-out he went to the corner. The FAR corner, away from the jump he needed to take. I have him the signal for the jump and to my amazement he crossed all way along the back of the ring and took the right jump. When the judge said, “Exercise Finished” we had a big party and he got lots of kisses. That seemed to break the spell and his next go-out was flawless.
Well, another show in two weeks. Hopefully he’ll do his sit stays and his Directed Jumping. Of course, being a Kerry, I’m sure he can think of some other naughty thing to do. He’s pretty good at coming up with new ways to do old exercise!
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