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Kate Johannson of our Sit Means Sit Tacoma Dog Training location, is seen here at a retriever trial with one of her dogs “Rosie”. Rosie has been owner handled and trained by Kate. This video clip is for a series of singles marks from the Washington retrievers annual 10 singles competition. This competition, like many others, there are no training aids or devices allowed on the dog, as they have to exhibit desire and control while delivering the bird to hand and waiting until given permission to retrieve the next bird. There were nearly 40 dogs entered in this competition. Kate and Rosie came in third. Hunting retrieving trials are amongst the most competitive because they have been around for a very long time, and are AKC events and have literally thousands of competitors throughout the country, making it very common to have many competitiors at an event. Another thing that greatly differs field trials and hunt tests from other dog sports, is that they are not only run in non-patterned events…….meaning that the handlers do not know exactly what is coming on the day of the trial, which is common in some other dog sports as well, but what isn’t common, is that since they are run in various locations, the terrain and obstacles differ greatly, where as in other events it may be run in different places, but they are all on some sort of grass, football field type of surface. The change in terrain can differ greatly in a hunting event, and a long with everything else, can create a much more difficult picture to the dog, giving the handler more and more difficulties of new surroundings. These dogs also have to cut through various water venues on straight lines as well, and may even have to enter water, come out the other side, and reenter, and exit water again in route to a different retrieve. The Sit Means Sit dog training system works effectively in all venues of dog training.

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