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All right guys so we’re here at um our First igp trial of 2022. Is it No yeah you did your bh in 2021 yeah First uh trial of 2022 um i’m doing a bh And carson’s doing his one carson’s Already tracked And he earned a score of 72 so barely Passing That being said that’s vasco’s weakest Phase and we kind of knew he wasn’t Ready but i just wanted to throw carson In the fire a little bit so he can like Experience what a real trial is like and Um you know now i’m sure the next the Igp2 as long as we pass today Will come back much stronger Um you know the the practice was Inadequate but Um for the one but i’m a big believer You know you set a deadline and you say Okay i’m gonna trial on this day and you You come to trial whether you’re ready Or not some people wait until the doc’s Five years old vasco’s like what how old Is he now he’s almost seven yeah he’s Almost seven so like you know we got the Doc later in life time is of the absence So even if he’s not quite ready it’s It’s a good learning experience for Carson and you know we just need to get Them up the titles and we’ll improve as We go along Uh so i did my check-in for the bh
Already So we’re going to do bh obedience and Temperament test now and then carson’s Going to be doing his Obedience with fasco And then protection and i said to carson My prediction is if all goes well uh He’s either gonna get high protection or He’s gonna completely fail yeah those That’s the two options i know where it’s Gonna be yeah Those are the two options the other Thing that’s a little iffy with fast Goes to send out we’ll see how it goes But we have been here practicing so yeah Hopefully it all pays off um It’s going to be a nice hot day today Nice 25 26 degrees so it’s going to slow A lot of docks down especially midday Unless the wind and the cloud cover Picks up We’ll check back in soon and we’ll we’ll Make sure to video that for you we Couldn’t video the track there was no Spectators allowed on the track um And uh to be honest it probably wasn’t Much to video there So we’ll we’ll try and get the the Tracking videos on the later trials up Um but just so you guys know we’re just Checking in now and then Oh hey vasco Hey buddy Good boy
Pasco says hi All right guys we’ll see you later I’m gonna Try and narrate this a little bit just Because i realized i should have told Carson to kind of comment away and Give his objective opinion on what’s Going on here but i didn’t think of that Anyways Um yeah so we checked in the dog’s Energy was good You know he was in a good frame of mind Here comes uh jurgen the guy that Was running a dumbo dog next to me So he’s going to the long down and then I’m going to get started here obviously I did not film the entire well we did Film the entire ph and i’ll release that Separately I just put some pieces on here so you Guys can get an idea how wait is he Dog’s super active Um you know he’s pretty much like how he How he has been consistently in training Um you know He was real nice out there i was very Very happy with kind of the energy of The dog and the behavior of the dog for The most part So just a few pieces of the ph guys and Uh and then uh we’ll go to the judge’s Critique and then you can actually hear A Certified judge critique the routine so
There’s the sit in motion it’s pretty Good I actually thought it was a little Slower than what it was so i’m actually Pretty happy with that sick motion I’ve got Some work to do there to speed it up Just a little bit And he was intended if he didn’t look Around too much which was also good Now we go to the down in motion Also wasn’t bad i was pretty happy with The down motion but Just a little bit more speed can be had There right Recall he’s a bullet but you’ll see it Oh He hits me and that’s my fault i Have not fixed that yet and then on that Finish he was a bit sloppy Okay uh Our last ph for the day we have has Engaged Um We saved the best for last in my opinion Um In the unleash healing overall it’s a Very nice picture this is a very high Drive dog not always the easiest type of Dog to train but this dog is the entire Time in contact with the handler And trying to please you so overall i Just have to tell you a pleasure to Judge this dog
On leash healing the basic position is Correct the normal healing is correct uh The about turn is correct the fast and Slow are correct Both right turns are correct the sit is Correct The group is showing correctly this is a Excellent exercise off leash healing Basic position is correct the normal up The field is correct the about term is Correct fast is slower correct The sit is correct this is also an Excellent exercise to sit from basic Position The build up is showing Correctly The dog could sit Ever so slightly faster on the way out He’s attentive on the way back he’s Attentive the finish is attentive this Is a low excellent exercise Down with recall The build up is Correct The dog could down slightly faster He goes out very fast in the recall but Bumps in front and the finish could be Shown Slightly straighter but the speed is so Intense and I don’t know how has did it but he Stayed straight this is a very good Exercise the long down the setup is Correct the dog requires some help on
The down The dog remains calm and attentive Throughout and again the dog requires a Little bit of help to sit here this is a Low very good exercise you have more Than enough points to carry on thank you Very much All right carson It’s a little distracted no Yeah good good good good good good Beautiful roll Oh yeah He should be he should be helping this Dog right now his dog needs some handler Help Yeah then car said No you’re not allowed to amp them up but He’ll he should take the point loss Because i think in the end It’ll be worth it i don’t know if he’s Gonna He’s got the nerfs going now i can see It [Music] [Applause] [Music] Not bad [Music] You don’t think about it it’s one of Those things you do in training that’s Good That’s good now he’s checking in a Little bit more with the dog just
Relaxing [Music] Yeah Oh they didn’t replace the Dumbbells Come on At least he’s only into one Amp him up carson amp him up amp him up No that’s two commands there’s only a Lot one [Music] So that’s a point loss the dog Preempted him there and left Good job but still preempting him Come I hope he remembers the a-frame Sarge they should have put those back That’s they better [Music] [Music] He’s giving a couple repeat commands and Stuff this is all stuff now he will Figure it doesn’t need a dumbbell Retrieval no no He should have said up here So when he bumped him that’s awesome That’s a point lost But it’s a one so the judge will be Gentle with him This dog is asleep man we are gonna wake His ass up Make sure he’s cute He’s not killing him Even though he waved at me i know he’s
Not It doesn’t matter At this point it doesn’t matter Repeat Good Ah i can’t he’s leaving him good Okay Yeah yeah Heals correctly And in the correct position um You’re about to turn up there is showing Correctly You’re fast and slow is showing Correctly both right turns the dog is Slightly lagging on the turns Your about turn could be slightly Tighter and the sit is showing correctly Throughout the group uh he gets a little Bit of extra attention help here he Needs to pay Better attention uh this is a low good Exercise Uh sit out of motion Uh Build up the basic position is correct The build-up is correct Uh the sit Uh Is done quickly or fast enough on the Way out he could be slightly More attentive and the way back more Attentive He remains calm here this is uh highest Of very good
Down with recall The basic position is correct the build Up is correct the down is correct downs Upon command stays there and remains Calm the finish is showing correctly um This is a High satisfactory exercise uh the long Down Uh the dog needs to remain calmer their Gowns when you tell it but Some shifting in the thing is a very Good exercise uh today uh the highest of High good uh 88 points [Applause] Is If Huh [Music] Now carson [Music] You ain’t too long there Faster this time Right there [Music] Son of a Hey guys so we’re back from the trial I’ve had a few hours now to think about What happened process it obviously i’m Super happy with gage’s performance i’m Super happy with the level of activity And arousal that he channeled into all The exercises that’s exactly how we
Trained it all the mistakes he made were All for the most part quite expected i Knew he was going to hit me on the Recall um you know i knew he was a Little bit slow i was sitting the down In motion um i think he’s a little bit Faster actually on the running down in Motion than the walking down but that’s Another topic altogether so basically The mistakes that he made were fairly Expected and are easy to rectify as we Move forward in his training uh journey Um but overall very happy with him Obviously how could i not be all right We’ve already tracked today because We’re preparing for a trial this coming Weekend we’re going for our igp one the Basically the title that carson just Attempted so Um and For us it’s a little early the dog has Still some weaknesses um you know in Different parts of the routine uh some Stuff in the tracking that i haven’t Fixed yet um you know he hasn’t really Even done retrieves over the meter wall So it’s another topic altogether we’re Going to get into that later now Carson Obviously is really disappointed He doesn’t have anything to be that Disappointed about for his first Real igp trial you know aside from his Bh
He did well the dog did well except Obviously in the protection phase right For i kind of like i said i threw him a Little bit into the fire i knew the dog Wasn’t completely ready Now i knew the dog was ready from a Protection style ironically protection Is that dog’s strongest Face but with dogs like vasco that are Reclamation products projects that have A history It’s not uncommon to have these issues I’ve had them with with previous dogs That i trialed outing issues issues Where the dog going you know flat in Obedience now with vascular like i said Two issues we got the outing issue that Just cropped up today And it hasn’t been a problem previously And um the Uh obedience so you guys saw a little Bit of a different picture if you guys Watch this bh video i’ll link it above Very different dog powerful Aroused dog very uh Active dog with the handler today we saw More distracted a little bit flatter yes It was hotter today but also this is not A surprise Um the dog’s behavior because uh Here’s the thing guys a couple Let’s say about three weeks ago we Noticed in the obedience training Vasco is not himself
He’s not looking like the dog that you Guys saw last year perform his ph There’s something a little bit different About vasco he’s he’s just not super Active so what’s going on and that’s Something that we’ve been trying to kind Of figure out is it a health issue well We’re going to get some blood tests done And we’ll figure out if it’s a health Issue i don’t think so is it a training Issue well here’s the thing i know a lot Of you are thinking well you guys did Too much obedience we didn’t do that Much obedience So This winter we actually focused on Protection work because the obedience Was good as you guys saw in his ph the Dumbbells everything else um it was good We weren’t concerned we thought Obedience was a very good face for him We focused completely on protection and Then the last month Carson’s been we’ve only been listening Guys it was like snowing a month ago Carson’s really got into tracking only About four or five weeks ago he really Got into tracking so you know tracking Was his weakest face and then we were Focused exclusively on over the winter Protection getting the protection dialed In getting the secondary control because Vasco was not a A dog who was easy in the secondary
Control he was a very challenging dog in The secondary control very vocal dog um You know very prone to getting a little Bit uh Too busy with the decoy stuff like that Things that were not desirable or Conducive to performance at a higher or Even you know Half decent level in terms of the Protection right So we worked all winter not just with me We work with kelly we worked with um you Know some some world level trainers you Know um that that visited from from from A country in europe that shall remain Unnamed um and uh you know the dog got a Lot of work in and uh we think we we Basically had the dog dialed in pretty Nicely from a protection standpoint Protection is his strongest face now and We were very confident that we were Going to come into this trial and we Were a little bit we were worried about The tracking and i was a little bit Worried he was going to be flat in the Obedience because like i said we noticed A few weeks ago He’s been flat So it’s not that we did too much Obedience training we actually haven’t Done that much recently um but we Noticed when we started getting him Ready for trial like what the hell is This what is this dog he’s kind of half
Asleep in the obedience So you know we know that his joints are Healthy we’ve x-rayed his hips elbows Back so we’re pretty sure that his Joints aren’t the issue so next is to Run a battery blood test his appetite’s Normal everything else it’s normal you Know the dog’s able the dog actually Recently did a breeding for us like There’s no issues That are apparent from a physical Standpoint and he’s the kind of dog even If there was a physical issue he’d Probably ignore it until it was pretty Malignant until it was pretty serious Because he’s a very physically strong Dog and a very he’s quite capable of Ignoring things like pain So ninety percent sure there’s like okay Is it mental carson says okay well the Doc’s been really good lately in the House that’s not normal normally he’s a Bit of an in the house you know He’s he’s rude to carson’s girlfriend He’ll growl a car He does a lot of things that a dog like Vasco will do And you know carson manages his way Through all these behaviors but he said Lately he’s been really nice in the House he’s been he’s been super nice in The house so i was like okay well that’s Different you know he’s being nice in The house and he’s a little bit
Flattering the obedience i have a theory I think vasco is at his best when he’s In a state of conflict When he’s He when he’s fighting he’s a fighter Like through and through he’s a fighter Yeah he has lots of drive whatever Whatever but in in his heart he is a Fighting dog he fights he loves to fight And i think the problem was in the Obedience before he had a little bit Frustration and that’s he really enjoyed Engaging with carson because it was Almost obedience for him was a little Bit of a fight but a productive fight And and you saw that play out in his bh Right if you don’t believe me go watch The video now i think that over the Winter with carson focusing so much and Getting that secondary control and the Protection The fight kind of went a little bit out He was too cooperative with with with Carson he got you too used to Cooperating and And you know we saw that in the house Behavior maybe this is again i’m just Being i’m just conjecturing trying to Prob problem solve my i mean vasco’s Almost seven years old now guys so he’s Not young Um and time is of the essence we got to Figure this stuff out we had an active Dog in 2021 december
Probably january february the few times I saw him do obedience and those times It was pretty active okay And now we’re We’re in may and we don’t have an active Dog anymore in the obedience he’s kind Of dragging his ass so we knew that this Was a problem so we did some things this Um i’m not going to get into what we did But we did some stuff to bring a little More conflict and activity back into the Obedience This uh This this week leading up to the trial And Believe it or not in the trial even Though he was far from what i would call Active and engaged he was better than What he was looking like in training With all the eights for the most part Right you saw it start to unravel a Little bit on the retrieves when the dog Broke and went went for the the dumbbell Stuff like that And by the way hey guys just so you know Vasco was a really bad chewer on the Dumbbell when we got him so just so you Know that i mean it was good to see that That Resolved itself but you could see the Very sloppy in the positions speed Wasn’t that good The healing he was very distracted not Not engaged with the helper with the
Handler so Um that’s an issue that we’re going to Have to continue to problem solve our Way through we have some ideas and again We’re going to be working um with with With another trainer who’s um you know He’s been on the world level multiple Times uh and he’s training on that level So um we’re hoping that he can um also Give us some ideas we have some ideas And we’re hoping that he can either Accentuate what we’re doing fine tune it Or maybe he has something completely Different that we’re gonna do i’ll get Back to you guys on that um later Now protection i know you guys are Saying well what are you talking about Has i mean the dog doesn’t even know how To out he believed me that this dog was An outing machine he was a fantastic dog On the out Now one of two things is the case either Vasco is caller-wise i don’t think he is Color-wise I don’t think he is color-wise but if He’s color-wise that’s easy to fix i Mean i kind of almost hope he is because That’s relatively easy to fix But if he’s not color wise Then okay was it the decoys was it a Different decoy presentation right Because we’ve been working him lately on Some pretty strong decoys that are Really strong on the lock-up stuff like
That um you know so i’m thinking i’m Thinking maybe it was just a bit of a Different decoy presentation for him and He wasn’t ready now that’s our fault we Should have trained him a little more Maybe with with a decoy that um you know Is a smaller Decoy that maybe can’t i’m not blaming The decoy i don’t want anyone to think That every decoy is different every Decoy is physically different um every Helper i should say Acts a little bit different on the lock Up stuff like that and dogs are smart They cue in on that type of stuff and Different he’s a bully vasco’s a bully So if he feels like he’s bullying Somebody he’s going to get he’s going to Kind of forget about what he’s supposed To be doing and focus on that bullying Fighting aspect he loves doing that kind Of stuff so i think Carson waited too long on the lockups Right the decoy locked up a couple times But then carson waited and it’s like bro You should be doing and i told him you Should be doing the out i did tell him Prior and this is in defense where i Might have created a little confusion For him i said look if the decoy is Struggling to lock up because we know Vasco’s a hard dog to lock up wait until The decoy has to dog in front or the Helper has a dog in front then give the
Out but carson was waiting too long and The dog was getting a little too much Out of that lockup that it created a Slow out um off the escape by the way Did you guys see the grip on the escape Like Fast go’s a dog guys he’s a dog anyways The The problem was there you could see it On the first out with slow that’s not How vasco normally outs vasco usually Comes flying off that sleeve and Transitions beautifully into the garden This was a slow transition he was very Slow on the out he waited a little bit And then he started barking and i think Right then and there we lost him well Technically i think carson really lost Him in the heel up to the escape you Could see the dog go a little bit out of Control there Where the dog should have stayed next to Him the dog started to preempt him and Go to the helper so i think honestly if The dog hadn’t had an outing problem off The escape he would have had an outing Problem on the long attack so Anyways guys These are just some thoughts that we’ve Got look carson trains with me Um when it comes to this igp stuff i Take his success personally If he’s not successful i’m not Successful
And you know anybody else that trains With me from an igp perspective you know Uh it’s not very many people because i Just don’t have the energy for it and i Don’t have the the interest in doing it With with tons and tons of people um but The guys that do train with me and that Are my training partners so to speak i Take their success very personally and i Take six i take carson’s success Personally i take vascular success Personally and um for me i’m not going To tolerate this failure we’re going to Get back to work we’re going to get We’re going to get carson where he needs To be with vasco and then also i’ve got The igp one with gage and hoping that we Have a lot of Hoping that we have Success in that as well so just a quick Some quick thoughts guys um just Checking in with you i’m gonna check Back in with you later this week talking About prepping gauge for his igp one