Hello, everyone! I’m happy to add another title to the Alta Tollhaus family. Pieka and I completed her CD-C title this weekend. This is the Novice Obedience title offered by the Companion Dog Sports Program. It’s similar to AKC, but has some significant differences. The exercises for the Novice title are: (1) Heel on Leash; (2) Figure 8 off leash; (3) Moving Stand for Exam; (4) Recall over Bar Jump; and (5) Honor Stay.
We earned very respectable scores of 195, 194, 193. Our scores would have been MUCH higher except that we had a bobble with the recall – completely out of the blue, Pieka starting coming in directly to heel. It happened once, I didn’t tell her it was “wrong” (being a trial and all) and she just stuck with it all weekend. 🙂 This will be easy to fix, just a bobble along the way.
Here is one of our runs:
Aside from the recall issue, I’m very pleased with her performance. The heeling was tight and animated, she was correct in her position, she engaged nicely between exercises and she didn’t crowd me too badly at all. Pieka is now Alta Tollhaus Bali, CD-C, RL2, RL1x, RN, CGC. We’re hoping to finish her AKC title this fall, then on to Open next year.
Hi, Jaime! Wonderful job, you two.
Wow, wow, wow! BEAUTIFUL work! It looks like a perfect run except for her thinking out-of-the-box and saving you the step of having to finish her on the recall. Congratulations Jaime, super performance!!!!!
Thanks, Julie! You know, you have to give Pieka credit for style. That auto-finish was very fancy! I’m not sure if you can hear the people laughing on the video. The judge commented to me afterwards, “I had to take points off, but it was actually pretty cool…..!” 🙂
It was very cool, and very precise! She was “working-it” for you! What a fun dog!
Congrats!!
That is a thinking dog for you! Why waste time?! EXCELLENT, OUTSTANDING, AWESOME!!!
Love her style! Love the scores—you two deserved it. Congratulations.
Very impressive. Such focus and control. Congratulations!
Jaime, I love it when you post these videos. You and Lynda continually inspire me to try competitive obedience with my future pup.
Pieka is such a cool girl. She has a style that’s all her own. Keep up the great work!
Congratulations on an awesome job! It’s always great to see these videos of Pieka. Thanks Jaime for sharing!
Congratulations Jamie and Pieka!!!
Excellent scores – well done. I loved seeing the video.