Bonnie,
I am thinking of doing Rally O with Dillon. We have been getting very stale with the same Novice obedience class ( studying for our CD) and i have taken a break from school for the past two months, but we need to start going back to school again. It looks fun, my only issue is that I will screw up reading the darn signs ( now which was my left again?
LOL)
As for Cookies, or lack of them, that is the biggest problem i have as well. In class we can use them, and it is great, for a cookie i have a wonderfully trained dog, no cookie, no workie that is how he is...sigh...you should have seen him in one of the last few classes of novice that we took, we did a full run through with cookies, Dillon was great! He looked like a pro! Then she had us put the treat bags away and get them to do the same run through...the first command he was great, second command he did pretty good, but by the third command he was getting hip to the fact i had no cookies for him, so he just started getting sloppy and by the end he was just barely getting the job done, with many corrections on my part. I asked if i could soak my hands in lamb treats or peanut butter for the actual trials...sadly, they said no! LOL!
Emilie