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Rommel BH (x2)

Saturday, December 6th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Rommel earned his 2nd BH today. (Yes, you read that right….his SECOND) His first BH I did when he was 15 months and 2 days old. He passed then also.

I wasnt planning on trialing this weekend. I have been with my friend who just lost her daughter and I have not been to training in about 2 weeks. Rommel just wasnt ready for the OB1 (dumbells just not there yet).

They had 9 BH’s today, so when they started the first pair, I ran home and grabbed rommel and said what the hell…the worst he can do is screw up. It will be great experience for us both and great to get a critique from yet another judge. Plus, that would make an even amount of dogs, and they wouldnt have to do a round robin.

Rommel made me proud. He passed his second BH today under USA Judge Mike Caputo, who had nothing but good things to say about him. When he said his heeling was EXCELLENT I just got a huge smile on my face, because I have worked so hard on it, and this judge does not sugar coat anything. His motion excersizes were excellent except the sit out of motion, which was a high very good, because the dumb handler (me) took to MANY steps in the buildup. He said that took an excellent excersize down to a high very good because of the steps. I always do more, (just in case!) because I thought more was okay, but not enough was bad. Learn something new everytime!

Rommel has always had a very solid long down, and after a minute or so of being there he said that he focused on me the whole time. That made me happy also. It is always nice to have good attention from your dog.

Some photos of me and Rommel (who just turned 3 in November)