One more “Griffin is the best” post is necessary.
On Friday we did an AKC obedience trial. He was great. We need to do more training but also were able to show many things we can do well. We did Novice, Pre-Novice, Beginner Novice, and Rally Novice. We got a leg and finished the titles for everything but the regular Novice – 3 titles in one day is kind of fun!
In everything his on leash heeling was the weakest part. Luckily we won’t have to do much more of that. In Novice he broke his long down to sit up and scratch about 2 minutes in, but did remain sitting after that. My favorite part of the day was probably his Novice recall which apparently looked nice and we heard the audience clap – I’m not entirely sure why, but I guess they liked it.
I’m really excited to try Pre Open when we do obedience again and to move up in rally. I’ve not done any AKC rally higher than Novice so it will be a new experience for me!