In a little over a month, the local club is putting on their obedience/rally trial. Auggie is getting entered because I want to get that third leg for his RA.
However, I dunno how many of you remember when I posted about Payton's "debut" in rally, which consisted of lots of bark-screaming and pulling and very little rally.
I'm not sure if I should try entering Pay again. I don't train at this club (and honestly wouldn't unless you paid me to do so...) and unfortunately they don't have any fun matches on schedule yet - doesn't mean they won't have one but there isn't one on the schedule - so I don't exactly have a way to gauge how he's doing and if he's likely to have another meltdown on me. He is doing amazing out and about in public... but I've never had a meltdown like what happened in rally anywhere else anyway. And Payton has been a spectator at tons of agility trials without any problems, so it's not like I could just take him to spectate somewhere and judge off that.
So, stuff that is good is happening and all, but I'm not 100% confident he won't flip out on me at the trial. I don't want to set him up for failure by entering him before he is ready, but how do I know if he's ready? If I'm worried about it, should I just not enter him? But then I would probably never enter him haha. I wasn't ready to enter Auggie in agility when I entered him, but our trainer said I should and turns out he WAS ready, so I'm obviously not the best judge of my own dogs here... =P
However, I dunno how many of you remember when I posted about Payton's "debut" in rally, which consisted of lots of bark-screaming and pulling and very little rally.
I'm not sure if I should try entering Pay again. I don't train at this club (and honestly wouldn't unless you paid me to do so...) and unfortunately they don't have any fun matches on schedule yet - doesn't mean they won't have one but there isn't one on the schedule - so I don't exactly have a way to gauge how he's doing and if he's likely to have another meltdown on me. He is doing amazing out and about in public... but I've never had a meltdown like what happened in rally anywhere else anyway. And Payton has been a spectator at tons of agility trials without any problems, so it's not like I could just take him to spectate somewhere and judge off that.
So, stuff that is good is happening and all, but I'm not 100% confident he won't flip out on me at the trial. I don't want to set him up for failure by entering him before he is ready, but how do I know if he's ready? If I'm worried about it, should I just not enter him? But then I would probably never enter him haha. I wasn't ready to enter Auggie in agility when I entered him, but our trainer said I should and turns out he WAS ready, so I'm obviously not the best judge of my own dogs here... =P
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