Malcolm had a great time, many things to work on and great ideas. Beautiful weather,good company, and delicious cookies! Our hold on our retrieve needs work, I've been slack. It isn't steady, the placement isn't perfect, and he's sloppy holding until I ask to release - I haven't proofed it enough for touching the object and pulling on it and fumbling with it and pulling on his fur, etc etc, or changing positions - sit/down/stand.
Also directionals had been dabbled with, and it showed in his progress by the end of today that we had done some work, but I need to work on it more. For me this was both to see what one of my peers is doing and how, part of it was me needing better retrieves and distance control.
Info on the PWD Water Work program:
http://www.pwdca.org/water-work
There is actually an all breed program in existence:
http://www.caninewatersports.com/Canine_Water_Sports/4._RULES_%26_TESTING.html
And Dog Scouts has some programming as well:
http://dogscouts.org/badge-categories/water/
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