As always - beautiful work from an awesome team : )

Fantastic job Emily! Always a pleasure to watch.

Nice work!  That (stress) yawn when you first leave is SO typical.  When I judge rally and the handler leaves the dog for the walk around OR recalls, 99 out of 100 times the dogs yawn.

Solid stuff, Emily! Fal's got it.

I appreciate the lack of redundancy in the communication system. In ring, protocol is to deliver a 'resting' cue in the exercise. While my dogs don't need it (sit means sit until other cue or termination), it's an extra 'help' we can teach or use. 

You guys are killing it. 

And a little stress never hurt no-one! 

Totally Agree Emily!  And please understand I didn't mean to infer anything about the yawn except to share I see this constantly in the ring when dogs are left.  My take is context, and just as you say, practice will make this a very routine exercise.  So many ONLY practice this in two places - at home in the livingroom and at their classes.  I LOVE that so many here are taking this into the woods and everywhere.  Terrific training!

There is a fabulous newish OB venue you may want to check out.  CDSP - Companion Dog Sports Program.  All the way to OTCH.  tripawds are allowed, and there are no group stays.  You can praise your dog throughout and use food in between exercises if you want to reinforce. 

http://www.companiondogsportsprogram.com/

IF there are no trials in your area but there are folks who like rally and ob, it's rather easy to put on trials - except there is that expense of bringing a judge in.  The sport owner, Sandi Ver Sprill, is happy to work with new areas to get it going, so perhaps a workshop might be in order??????

Thanks Peg, totally forgot about CDSP! I haven't done that in a while and forgot completely about it. I had the top dogs in Open and Novice a few years back. Glad to know that they don't discriminate!