He DID IT!!

Roscoe finished his PMAD, or Performance III Dog, title!! Yahooooooooooooo!! He needed his one Master's Gamble leg and he did it on Saturday. It was his fifth class of the day and he was WAY high and it included a distance challenge to weaves and he SMOKED it!! No hesitation going into the weaves and finished them with ease. Good little Bad Dog!!! This is a major title for my wee partner. We are totally proud of him! I am trying to load the video, but for some reason having trouble. I hope to figure it out soon. Not sure what's the issue, except that my computer is a "dinosaur".

OK, finally got the video to load!!

OK, so for those of you who don't know what the gamble is about, here is my best explanation - We get 30 seconds to run the course however we want, accumulating points depending on what obstacles we do. The more points the better, but you really want to end up as close to the gamble by the time the 30 seconds are up, as possible. At which point the buzzer goes off and you have 15 seconds to do the gamble. The gamble is different each trial as set by each judge and is generally 3-4 obstacles that have to be done at a distance. A line is set on the ground that the handler can not cross. So, essentially you have to send your dog to the obstacles away from you. That's hard for wee Roscoe. AND since this is a Master's course, there is usually an off-course obstacle that is very tempting for the dogs. In this course it is the red tunnel. Many dogs got "sucked" into the tunnel instead of doing the weaves. Roscoe never hesitated, good little man!!! I said "Weave" and he went straight to the poles, never looking at the tunnel!!