I’ve been following your blog for several months, but I don’t think I’ve put any comments yet.

Anyway, I’m glad another flyball opportunity is available for you and Chase and I look forward to reading about his progress! About him bobbling the ball: my dog (rescue hound mix) bobbles 15%-30% of the time (used to be even worse) and someone noticed that she doesn’t put her mouth directly over the ball; instead, she reaches for it but lets the box spit it out to her, a “technique” that lends itself to bobbled balls. So in practice we “unspring” the box so that she has to put her mouth right over the ball to grab it, otherwise the ball doesn’t come out. Just thought I’d share that in case Chase is doing something similar. I’d be interested to hear of any other things you guys try to help reduce his bobbles.

Cheers!