Why did Balko V27 Bszs 08 fail his bite at 2009 Irish Sieger show? - Page 4

snajper, nobody made the comparison of one event to another. 

noddi, honestly, your post made no sense at all.

Among other things, what does "running around in circles" have to do with the courage test?  Ill dog?  First, a good dog would have to be pretty ill, like at death's door, to still not TRY.  So that, too, is no excuse.  Besides, illness of the dog certainly is ruled out by Sue Worley's own post.

about dogs running straight off the field. some people warm up their dogs before they go straight onto the field. so sometimes, not always, a trainer will over stimulate their dogs and when the handler sends the dog, he/she will run straight back to the place the helper last was, off the field.

A couple of years ago a person from a different club did just that at our trial. The dog was very nice, just over stimulated, and ran directly off the field to get a bite. when there was no bite the dog quickly returned and tried to finish the routine by going directly to the find blind. There was noting wrong with the dog other than poor control training.

 

Something like that is probably what happened to the dog I saw.  The POINT was that crazy things can happen, and if it happens once, as I said in my post, it's a WTH moment for the handler and probably for the dog, too, and it obviously can (as it did at WUSV) happen to a good dog, but if it's the usual MO of the dog, then that's a problem.

snajper chooses to read this as comparing the two events as being the same thing.  The rest of you got it.