Kamunyak

Suffering from filling out multiple entries myslef I asked the VCA (only a couple of months ago) if they were planning to do an online obedience entry form like the show one - only fair I thought - and was told they didn't have one, had no intentions of making one but I was more than welcome to buy a book of forms from them!!! This is when I found myself an old typewriter and typed up one entry form (my handwriting isn't always clear so at least this way no typo's on the catalogue ) and photocopied off multiples.

Fogot to reply to you last night lablover. If I try to keep holding her jaw, she starts to try to throw her head around - and if I cannot keep hold, yes she spits it out. Friend of mine had this problem as well with a lot of mouthing thrown in for good measure. The recomendation to them was to get the dogs nose up so it was harder to spit the item out. For this particular dog it was done by scratching between the eyes as he pushed into it and while he was concentrating on the scratch he forgot to mouth and or spit it out so could be rewarded - the original suggestion was to scratch under the jaw as you could easily position your hand to grab the dumbell if they did try and spit it out from there. You did mention the fun the dog had with the soft toy so maybe it would be worth getting him to understand the exercise with something he doesn't mind hanging on to - a rolled and taped towel for example. Once he understands the principle of what you are asking it should hopefully then be easy enough to transfer across to the more formal item.

If you go to your local horse shop/outlet they should be able to tell you who does rug repairs in your area (a lot of the shops do it themselves on site) and most repairers would happily add a buckle to your existing rugs.