The judge was Patrick Villardry from France
This is her first Obedience competition in a long time. We don’t have much training, but I wanted to see what she could do.
She did very well, it’s not easy to see it on the video, but she turns a little on the left. It’s something I have tried to correct for ages, but she doesn’t like to stay straight. Otherwise, it’s a good exercise.
She did it backward… It was a fun moment. We didn’t train this one much, she understands the concepts I guess.
She moved a bit when I turned, I need to do that more often. I was confused because I forgot that in grade 3, you can have the object at the edge of the line.
After some hesitation (I guess she was also confused), she took the right one. You can see my surprise in the video when they announce the result.
This is my favorite exercise of this competition, I didn’t even know that she could do it so well.
Heelwork was never our strong side. In grade 3 it’s a long walk of pain for Kaïa. You really can see that she struggles to focus, the stress of the competition takes its toll.
The backward walk is a lot better now, as well as the sidewalk. Positions were on point.
Going forward to nowhere, this makes no sense to me, and Kaïa doesn’t understand yet. I was too late for the stop command and she was outside of the box.
This is an other 0. But this one is just the lack of training, if she did go forward correctly, she would have succeeded.
