Saturday - no dog work as i got sucked into repairing one of the forklifts. Rebuilding a solenoid was straight forward but it worked on teh bnech but not in the truck .... hmmmmm.

Sunday Retriever training with 'les oranges'. Catja started quite well but tailed off in performance - had a new trick introduced - the 'short lead gee up' On a short lead the dog is fired up and then put back to heel this is repeated a few times and then set up for the retrieve. A much improved out run.
Topaz once he had got his toilet duties off his mind settled down well. We had a path with dummies set either side - the wind direction across the path axis. At the outset we had to commit to the side from which the dog would retrieve. He was quite good at it. I was pretty pleased. Need some work on his hand signals but the sit wasn't bad - for him.

A quick trip to the workshop ended a good day - I had worked out what i might need to do to get the solenoid to work and it DID!! so that is one sorted, just need to change a few bits of electronics and rework a commutator on the other.