Saturday, May 31, 2008

Woo Hoo! Two more Q's!

Friday night I took Cash to the Fun Run practice session for this weekend's NADAC agility trial. Thank goodness I did because he was a total wild man! I was not anticipating a good day today based on the insanity I saw from him last night.

I am happy to say, Cash was an awesome boy today! He won the 12" classes in Jumpers and in Touch N Go. He now needs one more Q for his Novice Touch N Go title. He NQ'd in Tunnelers due to bad information from his handler.

We are entered again tomorrow in Jumpers, Tunnelers and Touch N Go. He is absolutely loving agility and am I glad I taught him Right and Left. He is sooo fast and I am sooo slow, with those commands I'm able to steer from behind. If I could just teach him to read numbers I could sit on the sidelines and let him run the course by himself.

Not bad for a little guy who won't turn 3 until June 18th.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Fun weekend






Cash and I were joined by my friend, Darla, and her Pom, Nina last weekend to drive to the U2KanDu NADAC agility trial in Lawrence, KS. It was our first trial (well, their first trial and our second if you count the Wahoo trial in January of 2007 where Cash broke his start line stay, took 4 jumps and lapsed into poodle zoomies).






We both entered Novice Skilled Weavers 1 & 2 and Touch N Go 1 & 2 for both Saturday and Sunday.






Touch N Go 1 was the first class and Cash had an awesome start line stay and solid contacts. Touch N Go consisted of tunnels, an A frame and a dogwalk. He had not been on either the A frame or dogwalk in quite some time at class but did okay on the Friday night practice run throughs.






On Saturday he won the 12" TnG class with 3.78 YPS and no faults for a Q and a blue ribbon, and followed that with a 3rd place finish and Q in the Weavers 2 class.






Unfortunately, due totally to handler error, we failed to Q in the other two Saturday classes or any of our Sunday classes. (All the while Darla and Nina are racking up Qs and titles in Weavers and Touch N Go!)






We decided to be gluttons for punishment and entered Tunnelers before we headed back home. I didn't realize the SCT (standard course time) for Tunnelers is significantly less than the other classes. Suffice it to say Cash and I missed a Q by 1.97 seconds due to a very slight veer toward an off course tunnel that I was able to call him off of.






We had such a good time I am contemplating entering some local NADAC trials.