I worked with Red on obedience for a couple of minutes today.  We did some heeling, short stays, and retrieving.  His heeling was pretty good.  I actually saw some improvement on his fasts.  Red used to speed up but wouldn't actually break into a run, and I started slowing down to accomodate that.  We lost lots of points for the fast at trials, I'm sure.  But today he started running, so I praised him like he had done something wonderful and ignored the fact that he was heeling wide.  His stays were fine, of course.  Red did three retrieves in a row fast and happy.  The next time he was going out to get the dumbell, he started sniffing the ground, so I knew he had had enough obedience for today.  But I brought him back and made him do one more good retrieve because I don't want him to think he gets to decide when to stop working.