Good on you Wendy and Lara,

About time these people took notice of the "Hairies"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wendy Laigne-Stuart" <syrinxkennels@...>
To: "Weimaraner Longhaired" <Weimaraner_Longhaired@...>
Sent: Friday, 3 July, 2009 12:10:25 AM (GMT+1000) Auto-Detected
Subject: [Weimaraner_Longhaired] Longhair shows up GSPs and a Goldie. (LONG,
sorry!)









Hi all,
Just HAVE to tell you something funny from the weekend. The National Retrieving
and Field Trial Committee had their annual fight, I mean, MEETING in Canberra
last weekend. The Gundog committee cater for it ourselves, charge the ANKC, and
then put the $$ towards the Retrieving Nationals. So on Sunday I was on the
duty list, and the other two people and I took dogs to do some work in between
serving food. We have a Gundog Working Test comming up on August 1, in
conjunction with one of our Obedience Trials, and I haven't entered or seen one
before.
 
GWTs are different in every State, and because the delegates to the Committee we
were feeding won't agree, there are no titles offered. They are supposed to be
working towards it, but I won't be holding my breath! Should have witheld lunch
until they got it sorted. The other committee members who were there are
much more experienced in this, one has Goldens, the one she is currently
working has his Novice Retrieving Dog title, and she has had a National Ch
before. The other member has GSP's that are up to CDX and UD in Obedience, and
one took out the Novice section in last years GWT. So altogether dogs and people
who know what they are doing. I had Lara LH with me who does love to retrieve,
maybe a little too much, as she has trouble waiting for the command in either
Obedience or with dummies. She only has her CCD, a level they put in under CD.
So both of us are rank amatures. GWT's are really gundog obedience. Heeling,
stays, drop on recall, and a
couple of retrieves of dummies out of a thrower is Novice. The Open also has a
double rise (they see one dummie launched, but not the second, so they have to
trust you when you say there's one out there) and a single blind where they
don't see it at all, and you direct them for that, too. That's how it goes in
New South Wales.
 
First thing, the friend with the GSP's gets out a dummy covered in rabbit skin.
I showed it to Lara who grabbed it and would have loved to have taken it home.
The owner of it took it to her GSP's, and they wouldn't have a bar of it. She
made them take it, but if they were kids, their noses would have been screwed
up!  I thought to myself that Lara was such a good girl! The one with the
Goldie was throwing the dummy just a little way out for Lara, and saying that I
needed to get her interested. Well, Lara only gets excited on the inside. She is
not a bouncing up and down kind a girl. She might look to others that she's not
interested, but to those who know her, you can tell when she is just beside
herself. Just on the inside.
 
The GSP's got to go first, and were OK, but mucked about a bit. They were just
thowing by hand at first, and one throw went over the driveway. Dog ran around
the curve, but wouldn't cross it. "See that?" they said, "A change of terrain
and often the dog won't cross it." Dog was encouraged over to the place the
dummy landed, and eventually retrieved it. And we are talking VERY short grass
here. Basically just paint dirt green, and that's how much cover there was. It
was actually our dog show grounds car park.
 
Next one to go was the Retrieving titled Goldie. He goes out, brings it back.
Next one went further out, but he wouldn't go past where the first one fell.
"See that?' they said, "Not unusual to see a dog only want to re work old
ground".
 
So then it's first timers, Lara and Wendy. They throw, she retrieves. They throw
it past the old ground, Lara goes out, has a quick glance where the first one
fell, goes right on past, and retrieves it to hand. Hmm. Silence from the Goldie
owner!
 
The next one they put pigeon wings on. Lara has never had feathers in her mouth,
and did not see or smell this before they threw it. She went out, passed the old
ground, picked it straight up, and retrieved it hand. Not even a second thought.
 
They put the next one in the thrower. First time she hears or sees this thing,
it goes past the old ground and over the roadway. She goes out, past the old
ground, AND RIGHT ACROSS THE ROAD WITHOUT A PAUSE. Silence from the GSP owner,
too!
 
Then we went down a hill, with the launcher at the top, so they could see the
dummies against the sky. As it was our first go, she doesn't know to look out
for it yet, and missed several of the launches. When the GSP's didn't see it,
they would go out in a small circle and then come back to their owner. We get up
there, Lara misses it, but I say FETCH, so she figures that I wouldn't send her
out for nothing, so off she goes, and brings it back every time! They were over
the hill anyway, so most were blinds.
 
The 'helpful comments' from the others stopped pretty early on, when she kept
showing their dogs how it's done, purely on instinct and trust. When we got back
to serve lunch, a couple of the delegates, who must have been bored to tears,
came over and said they were watching the first part out of the window. One
commented that he had seen Lara and she looked really nice. He was a lab guy,
unusual for them to say anything nice about a Wei. No comment from anyone about
any of the other dogs.
 
When we were leaving, I said to them, " The funny thing is, out of all my Weis,
Lara would have the least fire for this stuff. You should see some of them."  
 
The other two looked at each other.
 
"Really?" , they said. You could see that really they were thinking, "Oh no
!!!!!"
 
Ha Ha! Go the hairies!!!!!!
 
Wendy L-S
Syrinx Weis of Oz
 
www.syrinxweis.net
 
 
 

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