Bad Weather and Contacts

Very bad. Very, very bad.

I want some of our sunshine to head off to Orange for a few days so the pups can have their evaluations finished. That's not too much to ask, surely?

We went to training last night; had a tonne of fun and got too see Nugget again. My God, he's shot up in just two weeks! He's such a solid dog, with crazy long legs at the moment, and his eyes kind of seem sort of Chinese-y, but I don't know if that's a baby rottie thing or not. Regardless, gosh he's adorable.

Puppy fever. Hello.

Charlie's so funny with him. There's food involved so he's focused on that, and Nugget kind of attaches himself to Charlie's lead, or walks around licking his eyes, or with his nose on Charlie's bits, and the moose just doesn't even notice.

For a dog of his personality, and with his past issues, he is so good with puppies. He won't take too much crap from them either, and if they're too full on he'll put them in their place, but he doesn't mob or bully them like a certain staffy thing I know >.>

Anyway. Contacts. As the title suggests.

They're awesome, to put it in totally simple terms. He nails 2o2o on everything, drives into position, drives out of position, sticks it, there's not a lot left to do through retraining it at all.

I just can't gather the courage to put it to test in a trial situation, because a huge part of me knows it'll end up like our startline stays- inconsistent and with no real way for me to fix them.

I've still got tentative plans for our ADAA debut in November, but I don't know if I, personally, am going to be up to it.

So at this stage, it's like a forty per cent chance we'll roadtest the new contacts in November at WAAG, and a sixty per cent chance I'll chicken out and put it off until next year some stage.