First show of the season...

As Southern Border Collie was cancelled the week before due to waterlogged venue after all that rain, Culverstone was then my first show last week-end with Jesse. We did a training round in Novice, which Jesse did ok apart from dropping the dumbell by my feet, though I walked all over the place in heelwork... LOL I then did the Beginners stays and was over the moon when Jesse did them well and confidently! Yippeeee! After lunch we did our round. Jesse worked nicely... but he dropped yet again the dumbell by my feet... not sure why, but something to work on for sure. He still got a rosette but only because they went up to 10th place. :-) I was a bit disappointed of course, I hoped for more, but I guess it wasn't a bad start to the season. Will be working lots on the retrieve which has always been Jesse's weakest exercise although he often has clear retrieves. But his presents with the dumbell have always been a bit dodgy and shaky and I have never really done much about it... well, I have started now! I am working on getting much longer holds and much steadier ones too, where he doesn't move the bell around in his mouth! He is already improving lots on both counts. :-)