ClantyreSheltie
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They do if your dog falls off catastrophically, but then you're done. Maybe that's only for the dog walk?
What's with Carrying Dogs Off Courses???
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They do if your dog falls off catastrophically, but then you're done. Maybe that's only for the dog walk?
Carrying dogs off course
I am not sure on that maybe all the contact equipment?I t would be nice if they let you .Heck your first run is like 25 or 26 bucks so to let them back on isnt hurting anyone.JMO
I am not sure on that maybe all the contact equipment?I t would be nice if they let you .Heck your first run is like 25 or 26 bucks so to let them back on isnt hurting anyone.JMO
take4roll10
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When my dog took the dogwalk instead of the tunnel underneath it, I attempted it again two more times. Both times she took the dogwalk again. The judge never blew his whistle or excused us. I knew we NQ'd immediately, but I had no idea I wasn't allowed to try and get her to take the tunnel again, so we can finish the course. I guess I need to re-read the rules. 
He's a smooth collie, one of the fastest I've ever seen. He's really talented and they make a great team.
Thank you all for clearing that up. It's a real pity. Wow. I don't know what I would do if I couldn't take the obstacle again and fix the contact. I'm pretty sure my dog would keep blowing them off. I guess there's option of taking him away right after blowing off contact, but I'm not sure he'd make connection and understood what just happened. I'm happy that we can take dogs back to correct the contacts. You're right to say that it's our money we're paying for trialing, I don't see the problem with few seconds delay, because you want your dog to understand that he's supposed to work just like in training. Judge can whistle you off over here, too, but it happens only if you try to fix something and dog repeats to do the same mistake and handler is trying again and again. Sometimes we were asked to not correct weaves more than once, because yea, it's not training. But it was only one judge having this specific demand. Judges are usually pretty tolerant, though.
When my dog took the dogwalk instead of the tunnel underneath it, I attempted it again two more times. Both times she took the dogwalk again. The judge never blew his whistle or excused us. I knew we NQ'd immediately, but I had no idea I wasn't allowed to try and get her to take the tunnel again, so we can finish the course. I guess I need to re-read the rules.
Because it wasn't the next obstacle. You had repeated wrong courses, not an attempt followed by a bail followed by a reattempt.
He's a smooth collie, one of the fastest I've ever seen. He's really talented and they make a great team.
Thank you all for clearing that up. It's a real pity. Wow. I don't know what I would do if I couldn't take the obstacle again and fix the contact. I'm pretty sure my dog would keep blowing them off.
EXACTLY! If you can't fix it on the course and you let them continue on, it just reinforces the wrong behavior...therefore proving my point that by not stopping them can in some dogs make things worse and reinforce the problem instead of solving it
corbinam
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When my dog took the dogwalk instead of the tunnel underneath it, I attempted it again two more times. Both times she took the dogwalk again. The judge never blew his whistle or excused us. I knew we NQ'd immediately, but I had no idea I wasn't allowed to try and get her to take the tunnel again, so we can finish the course. I guess I need to re-read the rules.
I have actually seen one judge who interpreted the rules by the letter of the law and excused people for re-attempting a sequence. In other word's, in your case Randi you would have been excused because you re-attempted the sequence to "train" your dog to get it right.
I've only seen that once, though. And I doubt even they would have held to that rule in anything other than Masters.