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No other title is appropriate- because that is ultimately how my face has been all night.

So we finally got to training after a month of wet Monday nights and Charlie was like he usually is after an extended break from something- jumpin' bean.

But this time he was enthused and ready to go go go, but with a lot more self control than usual. That was the first good point.

His first shot with his new auto contacts on the full sized dog walk was so so. He nailed the entry, powered along and did slow down and try to hit the end contact, but he wasn't used to the angle and ended up with a four on the floor contact. But he was aware of what he was meant to be doing and he tried. After that he hit ninety per cent with beautiful auto 2o2o- the other ten per cent he still hit, but ended up four on the floor again because of not slowly enough for the angle. But I am so freaking impressed with him and his generalising and so proud of my moose dog.

Even more exciting than that was his see saw. Admittedly it wasn't at full height, but the angle was pretty much dead on what I have the dog walk at home set at and I think he was kind of under the impression that once the see saw tipped it was a dog walk. But oh well, regardless, he was riding it down and popping an auto 2o2o on the end of that as well. See saws have always been our major nemesis, and I actually am scared to have him do one at a comp because he literally flies off the end while it's still fully up in the air. It's scary and he could seriously hurt himself, so fingers crossed creating him into a contact suck dog might help with that a lot, too.

We didn't even look at the a frame. That's going to be left for later. I think I'm going to try and get some things together and make a bit of a replica, at least with a one sided a frame he can practice running down. I'd love to get an auto 2o2o on that as well, but he's had problems with his shoulders and he just hits the damn thing so hard... I just don't want to break my dog, and I've seen first hand some of his crazy a frame stunts and at this stage I don't believe he has the necessary self control to safely do a 2o2o on it.

Overall we had an absolutely wonderful time; Charlie was a bit of a "bait dog" with my instructor's sixteen month old rottie- she's hopefully debuting her in mid July (so long as Puck doesn't decide to be a pain in the arse and come into season), and wants to make sure as much as possible that she's bomb proof in terms of ignoring other running dogs.

He's such a good boy :)