Title that is. Viva finished her Open Tunnelers title last weekend. For
those of you who don't know agility, or NADAC agility, that's a class of
tunnels only--no jumps. NADAC has a Veterans designation, but they don't
allow it for Tunnelers, so in order to Q the old dogs have to compete
head-to-head with the youngsters. Viva is almost 9 now and has been
retired from all AKC due to spondylosis and arthritis. She can't jump
24" any more, but can occasionally do 16" in Veterans NADAC Jumpers.
This past weekend she was having a bit of a "bad" weekend so I pulled
her from Jumpers. She was determined to do tunnelers though! I'm proud
to say that 2 out of 3 of her Open tunnelers runs would have Qd with
Elite times (over 5 yards per second). Sunday's run was just under, at
4.98 yps.

Viva's agility career is definitely on its last legs--until I started
her with a bit of NADAC this year I thought she was retired. I may enter
her in Elite Tunnelers a few times, and depending on how she's feeling I
only need 2 more legs to finish her Outstanding Elite Jumpers title (100
points needed, 10 points per Q, she has 80). She has one more leg to get
her Rally Advanced title, then maybe we'll finally go for that elusive
tracking title. She likes to keep busy.

Oh and Cala finished her Novice Tunnelers title with the fastest run of
all dogs of the day, over 6.5 yps. She was really working for me, but
has decided she hates slatless equipment...sigh...