We had our last 4h meeting last night, before the fair in 2 weeks. They decided to tell my son that he may be in the wrong class for his dog project. He was told he was in the Novice obedience class at the begginning of 4h, now he may have to compete in the Graduate novice class. :evil: That would give us 2 weeks to train drop on recall, holding & walking with a dumbell, recall over a high and broad jump, and 3 minute down stay with handler OUT OF SIGHT! There is no way he will have that stuff trained by fair time. I think that since it was their mistake he should be allowed to compete in the class they origanally told him.
We may be able to get him to do some of the stuff like the jumps and possibly the drop on recall, but out of sight stay and dumbells... we dont even own a dumbell! I also refuse to do the force retrieve training method, which is what the advisor/trainer uses.
He would automatically get first place since he would be the only one in the Grad Novice class, but who wants to win by default! He would rather compete against other kids, and win/lose that way.
We may be able to get him to do some of the stuff like the jumps and possibly the drop on recall, but out of sight stay and dumbells... we dont even own a dumbell! I also refuse to do the force retrieve training method, which is what the advisor/trainer uses.
He would automatically get first place since he would be the only one in the Grad Novice class, but who wants to win by default! He would rather compete against other kids, and win/lose that way.