The Bad News

Indi didn't pass her obedience test.

To be fair I wasn't actually expecting her to pass anyway, she can do all the exercises...when she wants to anyway...but she tends to have problems doing them all together in one go. I really only entered her to get some experience of what the test is like and to give her (and me) something extra to aim at...

The exercises we had to do for her test were:

Walk to heel, right turn, about turns, left turns, halts, sits, etc
Same as above but off lead
Sit, wait, walk away, recall, sit
Sit, stay - 1 minute (3 other dogs in same room)
Down, stay - 1 minute (3 other dogs in same room)

She did quite well on the walk to heel (on lead), she's got this pretty much sorted now, but off the lead is a nightmare. She started off OK, then got distracted by the two nice judges that she hadn't met before and decided to investigate them instead! Of course, when I called her she then thought this was a great game! Recall was OK, passed that. Sit, stay she managed 45 seconds, down, stay about 15 seconds! Incidentally we were not alone in not passing. Out of the 30 dogs that took this test, only 6 passed. The club I go to does keep a pretty high standard and they won't officially let you enter the intermediate class until you've passed the test. Incidentally 2 out of the 5 Intermediates passed but none of the 2 Advanced did!!!

Oh well, next training starts in January, here's hoping better luck next time!