A true Toller…. in so many ways

It’s nearly a week since I wanted to post this, I just never got around to it. Jessie is doing great, in classes last Saturday she was brilliant but also showed me that after 3 repetitions things are boring for her and she wants something new (typical toller). We did recall work and all dogs were on a long training lead for that, all dogs? No a little red dog was the exception, she was the last to do the exercise and Sue our trainer thought she would be alright without and there was no need for the lead. Of course my little girl was alright, she is doing well with her recall anyway. Funny thing was, that Jessie who goes to say hello to anyone, had no intention to go with Sue anywhere (or with anyone else), the moment I turned around, she was by my side. I had to tell her to stay, which she did and walk away and then call her and she came flying to me.

Sunday morning we went up to Water Gate Forest Park, we had a couple of hours of walking, tolling and playing until little girl was tired. There were baby ducks (11) and other dogs were in the water too. The duck kept their distance the whole time until Jessie went in and suddenly she was surrounded by baby ducks and their parents again typical Toller). It was too cute (no pictures unfortunately), she completely ignored them thank god but it was funny that they only came once the Toller joined.

On Monday it was BH here and I decided to take Jessie down to the beach. The weather wasn’t too nice but still OK. Jessie enjoyed her time, she loved the beach and went crazy as usual. We also walked along the river side and did some retrieving work and on the way back she played with a couple other dogs.

last year Jessie was able to walk all the way down to the beach at this are but it's fenced of now and Jessie was keep looking sad, as she tried to get in

Today we had classes again and did a mock exam in preparation for next week, well little girl was excellent until it came to a 30 second stay. She just was not interested in doing it… Sue thought that was strange but she just behaved like a Toller, luring you into a false sense of security… The more I tried to repeat the exercise, the more bored she got and the more she refused to co-operate…