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Thanks Sookster. She is a really cool dog. I am very proud of her and happy that she shows our well loved breed to such great advantage. I will be at poodle Club of the Lehigh Valley Dec. 15th. Hopefully we will finish Open obedience there.

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Catherine
Lily AKC: CGC CD HIT CDX RN RA RE RAE NAJ; APDT: RL-1; CPE: CL1-R, CL1-H
Peeves AKC: CGC BN

CT Girl

How wonderful that the judge took that time with you. In obedience training my instructor did an exercise to help with the drop on recall. Put your dog on a long lead which you attach to a weight (she used tunnel weights). Then I jogged with Swizzle heeling. While jogging I give the stay command when there is two or three feet left on the lead. If the dog breaks the lead gives the correction. We only did this a couple of times but it did wonderful things for Swizzle's stay. No creeping, no breaking and a great drop on recall which we did next without the weight. That was a year ago and his drop while running or on recall has been stellar ever since. I am not sure why that made the connection for Swizzle but it did. Good luck on the 15th.

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CT Girl, thanks for the suggestion but I am having a hard time envisioning this. Do you have a video of your own or a link to one that you can share. I will say that I have been working on the things the Springfield judge suggested to me and I think she is getting it. We will be at our club tomorrow and work on it more formally. Hopefully I will see continued improvement. I also decided to go to PA the night before the trial on the 15th. The hotel that I stayed in last year (and same place this year) was super quiet and I actually did lots of heeling and recalls in the halls there, so hopefully I will find the same opportunity to proof the night before.

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Catherine
Lily AKC: CGC CD HIT CDX RN RA RE RAE NAJ; APDT: RL-1; CPE: CL1-R, CL1-H
Peeves AKC: CGC BN

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Lily is now a CDX! We went to the Poodle Club of the Lehigh Valley trial today. I got a really nice drop on recall (great sigh of relief). I can't say it was the most beautiful heeling she's ever done and I had a couple of crooked fronts, but we got the green (most important) and actually took first in Open A! There were only three qualifiers out of 9 entered and 7 who showed.

There was no winner for high combined since the only people who Qd in utility were in A and not also showing in open. It was very hard to watch utility and open B while waiting. Poodles do such creative things when they decide not to qualify! I kept seeing things happen that I've never seen before and thinking oh no, what if Lily does that. Overall this is a very nice quiet trial and the people are very nice.

We also got our 2nd leg for RAE2 today. I am very proud of my clever girl. She worked hard and had a good time too.

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Catherine
Lily AKC: CGC CD HIT CDX RN RA RE RAE NAJ; APDT: RL-1; CPE: CL1-R, CL1-H
Peeves AKC: CGC BN

Indiana

Yay, congratulations! That CDX is a LOT of work and I'm so proud of you both!!! Hope you are having a well deserved celebration tonight!

Chagall's mom

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Thanks so much Indiana and Chagall's Mom. Lily is a great worker. There have been times I thought this was never going to come together, but now that we are done, I realize it only took about eight months.

I was thinking you you and Chagall as I drove through New Jersey yesterday and today. It is funny how we both live in states that people think of as being sort of ugly or over-developed. Once you get away from the city both NJ and NY are really beautiful.

We will have a nice steak dinner tomorrow. Whenever anybody gets a tile I cook three steaks. One for each person and one for Lily and Peeves to share. The people will pop a cork off a bottle of bubbly stuff too!

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Catherine
Lily AKC: CGC CD HIT CDX RN RA RE RAE NAJ; APDT: RL-1; CPE: CL1-R, CL1-H
Peeves AKC: CGC BN

cavon

YAHOO!!!!!!!!!! What a wonderful holiday gift!!!!!! Way to go Lily!!!! Finish the title and top it off with a first place!!!! WHEEEEEE!!!!

Steak for sure!! I really hope that one day Finnegan and I will meet up with you and Lily at an event so that we can cheer each other on!!!

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sarahmurphy

Big Congratulations to you and Lily!! Woohoo!!

She's such a good girl and a hard worker!

We are so proud of you both!

Sarah and Spike

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cavon, do I recall that you went to the wine country cluster in Romulus, NY? It is the same weekend as my own home club's fall trials, but maybe if you plan to go next year too.......

I also go to the Salt City cluster in Syracuse at the end of March. This year I think I will be doing agility there if I get in since I don't think utility will be ready by then. If they offer grad open I would probably give that a go. I also might be able to finish RAE2 there, but I have to add up my planned entries to see if that is a possibility.

It would be nice to meet in the real world sometime at trial.

Sarah check your PMs. I thought of something for you to consider for Spike.

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Catherine
Lily AKC: CGC CD HIT CDX RN RA RE RAE NAJ; APDT: RL-1; CPE: CL1-R, CL1-H
Peeves AKC: CGC BN