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IRO test u traženju u prirodi drugog stupnja
3. 5. 2009., Gmunden-Regau, Austrija

Austrians showed good organizations skill, again. Obedience and dexterity terrains were very well pepared and time scheduale went to the protocol.
Judges were: dexterity Christiane Geritzer (A), searching Kvetoslav Stibora (CZ) and obedience Karel Pavlik (CZ).

The weather was very good and I manage to go with Bojan (he joined me at test this time) on beautiful lake in Gmunden.

At unpleasant material Gunna were (also at training the day before) unusualy cautious as she never did. Seesaw also. Tables weren't so precisely done as usualy. We eon 42/50 points. Christiane Geritzer were very correct and told me some mistakes I did. Alos, the day before, my kolegue from Slovenia (also judge), Katja Skulj, told me some useful stuff. Thanks Katja :-)

At obedience we achieved 46 points. I'm very happy with crawling: first time we did it by the book. Some goings from me in heeling, laying instead sitting, resulted with losing of other points.

Searching... forrest were beautiful: mixed with lots of pine trees, flat, from time to time with bushes and higher grass - handler could see dog most of time. Only thing which probably disturbed dogs were thorny grasses with nettles. In spots, you could see lot of collect branches.
We searched for 3 figurants in 20 minutes. I think it's easy option for that kind of wood but I didn't argue :-)

All figurants for Gunna and me were at 50th meters: first was left at the beggining, second was right at 50th meter from beggining and last one was at 250th meter at right side in that collect branches. This figurant was harder to find and nobody this day, except Gunna, didn't find him.
Gunna was like herself usualy: motivated, intensive and easy directing. She didn't bark so well at last figurant. She still don't has so much of physicall condition so she lost some of energy. Judge took 9 points on handling because she was reveiring by herself (?). I find this beautiful and I think this is improve in our searching so I hope she will keep it :-) We won 182 points.
By the way, we finished searching in exact 12th minute and, between totally 13 participant (5 passed) we were 3rd.

When I came back in Zagreb, I finally discovered the reason of unusual problems at dexterity: somewhere, Gunna took borrelia :-(
The day before our trip to Austria, Gunna limped on her back leg. It sttoped next day, we took a trip but in the meantime, she start to limp occasionally on her front leg. So, when I back in Zagreb, I tested her (I had suspicions when she started to limp on other leg) and she is positive: 4-5 points from 5 :-((

Now it's time for rest for a minimum of 2 weeks, she is on medicamenst and I hope that she will run and work soon because, like truly border collie, this is her best happiness in the world...