Things don't always go as planned or Humble Pie?

The retriever training season, sadly is winding down. The Working Certificate test held by the Regina Retriever Club this past weekend was to be the finale to our Retriever training season

To be honest Reese had been doing everything needed to pass the WC in training. We have even pushed her a bit and she has done a few doubles in preparation for the next step, which is WCI. It seemed like the morning of the test Reese had other plans. She ran out to her 1st mark brilliantly, picked it up with out flaw. But the delivery to hand was where things broke down.
Reese has had a tendency to come up with many creative ways to delay getting the bird to hand. But test day was the most creative and somewhat disappointing of all. Despite the judge giving me every opportunity to have her bring the bird across the line, it was not going to happen. We didn’t even get to do the second mark, until the end where the Judge allowed us to come back and try it. Something told me not to try it, but I didn’t listen to my own reason. The performance was pretty much the same, but stung a little more then the 1st. Lesson learned.
Stay tuned, although I won’t have the opportunity to test again this year, training will continue. At least until the snow flies.