Dessie's WWD attempt - almost there

After breezing through Apprentice on Saturday, Mark decided it would be fun to go for Working Water Dog on Sunday. Dessie had the last slot of the day - but Mark and she held it together and did really well. We knew going into it that her three article retrieve wasn't all the way there - and in the end she did better than we expected. It was fun to try for - and we know what to work on for the next time around.

Videos aren't great - I was trying to stay out of sight.

She started out perfectly - with a great bag retrieve, and a beautiful dummy retrieve from the boat.



Then came the three article retrieve. We were worried that she wouldn't jump off the boat. She did that just fine! and then she retrieved the dummy and the buoy ball. After the ball she wanted to get back into the boat. Mark tried to redirect her to the line, but she really wanted to get back in the boat. And that was fine!



For some reason she jumped off the second boat before it was in position and the dummy could be thrown between the two boats. This was totally new - not sure why she did this



But then she did a perfect blind line retrieve!