A week ago I took Blaze and Griffin to a run at an APDT trial. Blaze is not a young dog anymore and I gave him too much of a warm up. But, even without the bonus exercise (I’m not letting go of his leash!), we passed and I think he completed his RL1, we’ll find out when the paperwork is processed.
Griffin….had a lot more trouble. We ended up asking to leave the ring. He did the sets of stationary signs fairly well….but the in-between heeling was miserable, we tried to fake our way through it, but I just couldn’t do it.
He did pretty well during the warm up, was excited about the close quarters and he did some barking (as well as getting barked at).
As a result? More training. We’ll try to find a way to get to run throughs. I’d like to get in classes at different locations, but I don’t know if that’s possible. More get-out-of-the-car-work-and-leave And similar type things.
Since then, he’s been doing really well in all the training we’ve done.