Of all the DUMB reasons to fail a trial... - Page 3

SchHBabe, you should do another list.  Let's just say, "to raise awareness," of all the things Training Directors say about the new puppy you bought that you DIDN'T buy from them.

Here's one from personal experience: very nice puppy, bought from "Someone Else," (brought to the field for socialization only, and it barks the first time it sees the other dogs).  Puppy not owned by TD.  TD verdict:  "Nervy."  Repeated from then on whenever puppy appears.

New Puppy bought by TD:  brought to the field for socialization only, and it barks when it sees the other dogs:  "Look at her!  She wants to take on the world!  She is something else! What confidence!"



I'm sure there are many more.  Sadly, I've seen more myself.

First registered dog... first time training a dog...Pre Novice A obedience at a match... nerves a plenty...

MY DOG... suddenly wanted to know where my husband was... *sigh*

Completed the heel and gave him a congratulartory wack on the chest with a "Good BOY... OK!!!"  not remembering that my release word for "you're all done go play" was OK... but HE remembered... and went raceing around and around and around the ring barking his head off... then leaped the rope to land in my husbands arms all grinning and happy that I was so pleased with his performance....     

Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrr   think we got a 26 score, DQ'ed cause he left the ring... as I sank thru the turf and became one with the worms

Tooo funny, Windwalker!

(Maybe because I can picture myself doing EXACTLY the same thing!) 

Okay, so far the one about the male tracklayer being at 'that time of the month' takes the dog biscuit, with Tess's story a just above a close second...

Wish I could be a fly on the wall to read all those e-mails and PM's the OP is getting, though!

Some of these were awesome, and good for a giggle. I'll be sure to post my reason for failing when "I" (notice not the dog lol, fails)
VM. the noodles story nearly had me spit my coffee all over the screen.
Who does eat noodles on a baseball field?

Stacy

My first BH I was so nervous. I could feel my dog next to my leg. I looked the judge straight in the eye and introduced us. The judge started to chuckle and when I looked down, my dog was in the perfect basic position - facing the wrong way.  The pictures were priceless

The best excuse I ever heard was a woman complaining that her pet physic had told her not to trial the dog since he was feeling insecure and anxious but she had already paid for the trial. She expected him to fail and he did. I hope the dog got the help he needed...

Not SCH but while at an AKC obedience trial we were doing that last exercise which is a broad jump.  We had just completed the retrieve on the flat and retrieve over the wall.   The judge puts the dumbell on her clip board and stands twenty feet off the end of the broad jump to watch the old guy's performance.  I give him the command and watch as he clears the jump like a streak of lightening,  and heads straight to the judge.  Standing on his back legs, towering over the juge who is a diminutive lady, he grabs for the dumbell.  The judges eyes got bigger and bigger, as he finally lifted it from her clip board.   He returned and fronted so nicely.  Needless to say it was difficult to score........   We did and awful lot of poofing for cute judges and dumbell ignoring the dumbell on broad jumps.

Another daaaaaaaaa momment happened some years as one of my coworkers was in foot pursuit of two burglars out the back of a parks building.  He shouts a verbal warning that he is going to release the dog if they don't stop.  Of course they seem to acclerate. Dog goes off leash and streaks out and quickly closes the distance.   The miscreants go like a bee line for their neighborhood boardering the park.   The dog comes to a screeching stop at the edge of a large field.   The handler could only look on as they disappear in the distance.  His dog had never seen a field irrigated with water in metro Phoenix.   Guess who spent a lot of time in irrigation, pools, canals and any other water we could find?

That broad jump story!  Same thing happened to me once.  I couldn't believe it.  Instead of handing the dumbbell to the steward, the judge placed it on his clipboard and stood right beyond the broad jump.  I almost said something. I should've said something. My dog did the same thing yours did - jumped the jump and then went straight for his dumbbell.  The judge actually gave me a do-over.  Which was really generous I thought, and really, he didn't have to do that.  The dog should've listened to me.  Wait, he DID listen to me: he jumped the jump and of course you don't call them after they jump.....(LOL).

Anyway, the judge gave me the do-over, I think because he'd handed the dumbbell off to the steward for everyone else and therefore should've done the same for me.  But NOBODY absconds with a GSD's dumbbell!  They're gonna go get it back.

On the do-over, with the dumbbell gone and the judge still standing right beyond the broad jump, the dog did the exercise perfectly.