U!! Should post more decoy work :-)
I need more pictures where I'm not making absolutely atrocious faces and/or standing in the wrong position!
Both features here. See how the dog is biting almost on my shoulder instead of my bicep? We know he has some targeting issues, so I should have been a bit more proactive here and helped him out by throwing the correct part of my arm into his mouth.
In PSA, an arm targeting dog is supposed to be pretty squarely on the bicep. Bad targeting (we call it "high" if the dog floats towards the shoulder/chest, and "low" if it drops to the forearm or wrist) won't DQ a dog, but can definitely loose points in trial, as well as potentially being unsafe for both the dog and the decoy.
I've been nailed square in the chest and in the wrist! It hurts, it's hard to drive the dog, and it's way easier for the dog to wind up in a bad position and injure itself.
