Mom thinks I am almost ready to enter an AKC obedience trial. So a couple weeks ago, she took me to something called a "Show and Go" in Wenatchee. It sounded like lots of fun: she'd show everyone what a gorgeous, smart dog I am and then we'd GO! I love going. But it didn't really turn out that way. In fact, we were in this little building watching obedience stuff for hours! I guess the other dogs got to"show" first, and they were taking their sweet time doing it. At first it was fun sniffing and looking around, and Mom worked on my obedience with me in the hallway a bit, too. But then I got SO bored. Finally, it was my turn in the ring! But really by this time I was not too interested in heeling, so my heeling was not so great. In fact, the lady told me I could do it over again, for practice. I did much better the second time. I did a fantastic job standing, sitting, downing, and coming, but oh I was just so terribly tired of it all by the time we got to stays! In the group sit stay, I laid down. In the group down stay, I did a really great thing! I laid there and counted the seconds in my head for 3 minutes so I would not have to wait for the judge lady to tell me when the time was up. So about 2 seconds before she said "return to your dogs," I got to 180 seconds and just calmly got up and stretched to let her know it was time. My Mom didn't seem to appreciate it though.
Anyway, here I am in the ring, being a real obedience dog.
I was pretty excited that I got to stay by a Bearded Collie. I love Bearded Collies. But I did not bother him.
Mom says I did a good job at most of the obedience stuff but I still need to keep working at it. Maybe soon I will get to enter a real trial!
When we were done, we got to play on some old trains at the park with my boy and girl. That was the highlight of our trip, since there was no bacon in Wenatchee. Here I am on a train.
I always have fun on trips with my family.
Stay tuned for more lure coursing and dog park adventures!
