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Although it was Ruudi's birthday today, neither of us was not in the best condition. I did many mistakes and Ruudi was quite disconcerted.

• Heeling in the new way. We had not practice it much at home and we had not decide what should be the new command: juurde, heel, sivulle, kõrval... So we used the old command "kõrval" ("heel"), perhaps we will use it from now on and try to retrain Ruudi. The exercise itself had quite good results. At home Ruudi did not want to go behind me to take the turn but now he did not have problems with that. Henceforward we use only the new way of heeling.
• Turns to the left and to the right. I have to practice it, so that I do not send wrong signals to Ruudi with my body language. At the moment Ruudi stays a bit behind while we have been heeled some distance. I guess that is so because he tries to presage going down while heeling (we just have practice it too much... my mistake again).
• Turn back. I will use the turn to the right. Ruudi tends to go forward instead of turning back but perhaps it was so because today the contact was not so good (I also played a big part to ruin the contact as I did some exercises for too long etc). 
• Staying down and recall. Ruudi stayed down somehow but came to me when another dog was called... In general this exercise have been quite good... but today...
• Contact. 2 dogs were sitting and one was walking between them. Quite OK but the sniffing :@ I do not know what is going on. Is it a late teenager period or what but Ruudi prefers sniffing to anything else...

It is hard now but we do not give up!