my dog:
born 12/3/06
entered for BH 4/26/08
so that's about the same schedule so far.
though I have plans for a sch1 7/27 I don't know if he's ready. plan b is OB1. This would be a vanity trial for me because I want to show my folks the dog. I haven't entered and may not. The real plan is sch1 in Nov.
As far as retrieves, he'll fetch anything and has since he was 8wks old. I messed up with imprinting, I should have had him come and sit. He has a terrible habit of running past me and then coming to my right hand or he plows right into me by jumping at my chest - my fault.
He will bring any size dumbell but he doesn't front with any of them. I was working on just getting him to hold it and then plan to back chain. We go for short walks around the block and I make him carry whatever dumbell he chooses from the bag. I understand the play retrieve isn't 100% reliable but I really want to avoid the forced retrieve so I'm trying to work this one slowly.
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Originally Posted by Skip  Shane was born on 12/2/2004.
BH on 4/28/06.
OB1 on 10/22/06
AD on 10/22/06
SchH1 on 10/13/07
BST on 12/1/2007
Going for his 2 here in a couple months, then hopefully his 3 in the fall. Plan to go for his ABST after that.
What kind of retrieves are you asking about? Just starting with a ball or when we were actually doing dumbbells? We probably were doing fun retrieves with a ball within a couple months after I got him. Don't remember when we started on dumbbell retrieves, but I'd guess sometime shortly after he turned 1. |