What are your strengths and weaknesses....... - Page 3

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• Love tracking.. Have had some success in that phase. Probably because its slow and relaxing for me, more time to think about what the dog and I are doing than in B & C.
• Enjoy sharing my enthusiasm & experience with novice handlers and puppies. 
• Can still move with a good degree of animation in B and C, work quite a few dogs in a row as long as the humidity isn't stifling.
• Good understanding of temperament and drives.
• Appreciate/welcome constructive criticism, as well as dolling out same.
• Supportive and sportsmanlike.
• Good sense of humor.

• Don't do my best early in the morning. (read: wake me up, with coffee, when everybody is present, bait cut, and my dogs are loaded up in the trailer)
• Late for nearly everything. (ADD)
• Not the quickest learner, not the best listener, resistant to change in training/handling techniques. (Old habits die hard)
• Can be clumsy, lazy and inaccurate overall.. in just about everything.
• Do not tolerate being yelled at well, especially unfairly, on the training field and off. (read: shut down, cry easily, MAY BITE)
• Tend to be too easy with my dogs.
• Don't enjoy teaching the formal retreive with some dogs.
• Still throw up due to trial nerves on occasion.
• Hate cold, windy, foul weather, have 100 excuses for staying indoors in winter. (Read- "The dogs need a day off"... ;-)

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