You were serious about that !?!?

There is a great scene in the movie - "My Cousin Vinny" where the Judge holds Vinny in contempt for not wearing a suit jacket to court. Vinny (Joe Pesci) looks at the Judge and asks "You were serious about that?"

Well we had a couple "you were serious about that moments while training today at Canines & Ewe in Campo.

First, the weather. Beautiful sunny California, right ?? I know this because growing up in Ohio I watched the Rose Bowl every year and it was ALWAYS beautiful warm and sunny. At least so it looked on TV. Well, today, beautiful warm and sunny turned to cold, windy, raining with occasional hailstorms. At one point Piper's back was about half covered with hail stones. You were serious about that ?

Second, we were attempting a managed outrun to deal with the issue of Piper running too wide occasionally - like when she went horse hunting in Porterville. So the instructions were to send her come bye, stop her en route, counter flank her away, stop her, and then send her come bye to finish the outrun. Well, she took the first come bye and was off like a shot, she even took the lie down and stopped about a third of the way there. I gave the away counter flank and she took a half step and stopped and looked at me to say - this is wrong. "You were serious about that ?!?!" Assured by another away command I was indeed serious she took the counter flank to come in but she seemed happy when I quickly gave her another stop and sent her back on the original route to complete the outrun.

A strange seeming exercise to Piper but one with a purpose for those occasions when she takes off way wide and is running for the next county.