The person on my team who owns Asta and Leon does French Ring. I think she only does it with Leon, but she does SchH with Asta and her other shepherd as well, I believe.
Leon failed a trial though, as he went after and ate the 'distraction steak' they had there. She was not a happy camper. She was like, "That was a $125 steak!"
That dog is intense. He's pretty goofy, but he's got drive out the flippin' wazoo. Once he's in work mode, you better stay out of the way!
For a while, they had to have 4 people in the back to catch him when he came back from a run in a race, and we set up a baby mattress for him to slam into. When I was ball shagging at one tournament, his owner told me to tell the other team's shagger (a little girl) to get out of the way, 'cause he'll take you out. (Just by running into everything and acting like a living bulldozer).
I was thinking I might want a malinois one day, until I saw some in person. Those dogs are INSANE. There's a lot of mals in flyball with scars on their tongues from barking and snapping and they bite their tongues.
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