The dogs will be able to transition easily, but the handlers are going to need to get out of the Rally-O mind frame when entering an obedience ring. Much less talking, no body language aside from hand signals (in Rally-O you can stear with your body to encourage very intricate heeling patterns), etc.
Lilies in the late July heat, Lemnos, Greece. The dog days or dog days of summer are the hot, sultry days of summer. They were historically the period following the heliacal rising of the star Sirius, which Greek and Roman astrology connected with heat, drought, sudden thunderstorms, lethargy, fever, mad dogs, and bad luck.
During the dog days of summer (although technically over August 11, when Sirius, the Dog Star, stopped rising at the same time as the sun), let's take time out for a chuckle or two. In the dog days of summer as muslin curls on its own heat. In the dog days of summer, mosquito bites are a regular occurrence. Having taken delivery of the ISS model in January, the company has already seen it perform in the depths of winter as well as the dog days of summer.