Stuff I Forgot

A few things I realized I forgot to mention in my original posts.  Alta-Tollhaus Fenja ( Gorbi v Kirchenwald x Quellie vom Kiraschental) earned her BH with high -scoring obedience …AFTER she completed her AD – 12 mile endurance test. That same weekend she also came in 2nd place in her class at the conformation show.

I shared with all of you my excitement of Kira (Quellie vom kirschental) earning her schutzhund 2 title, but failed to mention her scores.  Since her schutzhund 1 scores were all in the 90’s I felt a bit like I failed.  Her scores for her schutzhund 2 were 87-87-87 , tracking, obedience, and protection.  Many of the points lost were due to handler errors.  In tracking she clearly stopped at the first article but I got nervous and gave her a plotz command, instead of giving her a chance to do it on her own.  In Obedience I couldn’t help myself on the out-of-motion exercises I had to look back and see if she did what she was suppose to do.. I knew I shouldn’t but my head just turned and there was no stopping it.  Scratch, scratch, off come the points.  Protection was pretty darn good but I must have been in a hurry to do the long bite and forgot to do the rear transport…

I am still amazed at Gustavo’s ability to help me fix all the serious issues Kira and I had in all 3 phases. Remember,  she had a litter of pups just 4 months earlier and I didn’t start working her until the puppies were 5 weeks old, and even then we were limited in what we could work on as she was  not dried -up and not in working condition.

I am forgetting some other things, but I will share it when I re-remember it. 🙂