Not only did we have a pretty awesome duck season in 19/20 but Cash recently swept four straight HRC finished passes over the last month to earn his HRCH title. Being self trained and owner / handler, I never thought something of this nature would transpire, especially after the grinder we had in 2019 in his SHR title.
In the last several months however, his light switched on, as did mine. I learned to calm down, how to execute true and proper handling each and every single time, how to truly execute land and water blinds handling wise and to truly interpret and redirect his visual cues when needed. Things such as always checking his tail to nose alignment and picking up on his visual cues by reading even his eyebrows before sending came into play.
If you haven't taken the time to understand these seemingly small items in your training, definitely do so. It was pretty daggum awesome to learn these things then to see and experience the success that resulted from utilizing them along the way.
I am very thankful to have gotten his passes so quickly as the unfortunately the other four hunt tests we had pre entered have all since cancelled.
Our fourth and last test of the series was a water blind that was quite the hammer knocking out 15 in a flight of 28 dogs. Those Ga judges don't play around with these hunt test set ups.
At any rate, I am told that's not to shabby for a 26 month old Chesapeake. God certainly played his roll in not only in my patience curve but also in putting many new and valued friends in our path along the way.
Equally as awesome, I just got all his OFA certs back as excellent in hips, normal elbows and normal eyes.
Thanks to those on here who offered advice along the way !
I reckon we will be pushing towards AKC MH and maybe run an SRS when everyone gets back up and running.
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