[Muckdogs]

Here's my .02 -> Nash is a dog.

No one, I mean no one knows what's going on in the mind of a dog all of the time. They are unpredictable and do the damndest things and the darndest times. You probably jsut fell victim, for the first but not last time, to the "holy crap" syndrome. For instance, Holy crap, my dog tracks like a bloodhound, why is he just standing there eating the grass during the tracking phase of a recent Schutzhund trial and now, Holy crap, is he puking? Or how about, Holy Crap, my dog never, ever, ever, flinches during the gunshot phase of a Schutzhund trial (we've trained for this moment a hundred times) so that can't possibly be him walking, no make that sauntering and darn proud of himself, across the field trying to mount the bitch doing her off-lead portion; Or how about, Holy Crap, MY dog ALWAYS runs ALL of the blinds 1-6 before doign a bark and hold, heck we've done it hundreds of times during practice ->why during the trial does he go around blind 1 and straight to blind 6?

My point is is that they sometimes march to the beat of their own drummer, often when we'd least like them to. Sometimes all you can do is laugh. One thing I have learned, from our own failures and watching those of others, is that you can only train so much, and the rest is just hope.

PS -> you can overtrain as well so maybe a little break can do some good.