So many very, very experienced dogs popped out of the weaves on this one. Some people were suggesting that it may have been because 22 had the timer eyes on it. I was wondering your thoughts on this, if you think that could be a reason or if you have a different theory?
Several possibilities but my favorite one is that this weave exit is uncommon for most dogs, and functionally is equivalent to the “weaves to nowhere”. Do you happen to know when dogs popped out, and which side the handler was on when it happened?
Mostly popped out late in the poles, around pole 10 or so. They did this with a variety of handling. It was really odd as several of these were extremely well trained world team dogs and handlers with incredible skills.
I’ll give it another look, but there’s nothing “small” about these challenges 😉 A lot of the challenge comes from getting where you need to go and knowing how far you can leave your dog!
So many very, very experienced dogs popped out of the weaves on this one. Some people were suggesting that it may have been because 22 had the timer eyes on it. I was wondering your thoughts on this, if you think that could be a reason or if you have a different theory?
Several possibilities but my favorite one is that this weave exit is uncommon for most dogs, and functionally is equivalent to the “weaves to nowhere”. Do you happen to know when dogs popped out, and which side the handler was on when it happened?
Mostly popped out late in the poles, around pole 10 or so. They did this with a variety of handling. It was really odd as several of these were extremely well trained world team dogs and handlers with incredible skills.
That’s interesting!
this is a really interesting course – ty for the analysis!
How about taking individual portions of this for some upcoming small space challenges?
I’ll give it another look, but there’s nothing “small” about these challenges 😉 A lot of the challenge comes from getting where you need to go and knowing how far you can leave your dog!