Monday, May 14, 2007

Sunburnt at a weekend agility trial

No, Cash wasn't entered, but I worked our club's AKC agility trial. It was a long, hot weekend in Nebraska. Good thing I took my homemade, all natural bug spray. It was quite popular.

Saw some really good runs from some incredibly fast dogs and helped out as the assistant scribe on Saturday. I didn't signed up to work on Sunday, but knew they were shorthanded on help, so I took Cash with me to get an official measurement. The AKC rep was there and I got his temporary height card (Cash won't be two years old until mid June). He measured 11-7/8". Whew! Just made it to jump 12" in AKC. YAY!

The judge has miniatures poodles and spotted Cash in my lap at ringside and came to visit between classes, saying, "I just have to see that poodle!" He is normally pretty reserved with strangers but must know a poodle person when he sees one. She took him from me and he put a foot on either side of her neck and was giving chin kisses and laid his head on her shoulder with tail wagging a mile a minute. She oohed and aahhed over him and asked what I had been doing with him. I told her he had a couple of novice rally legs and was training in agility. After she gave him back to go judge the next class, I told him what a suck-up he was and I swear he winked. What a ham!

He hung out in his pop-up crate in the shade with a fan on him while I helped knock down rings and canopies and put equipment away. I had to wake him up to take him to the car for the ride home.

1 comment:

Avalon said...

The last time I volunteered at a trial, I got so winburned that i looked like ted Kennedy after a weekend binge! But it was great fun.