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Agility groans and grins - and Freeway update
USDAA trial this week-end. It was quite small for USDAA. The weather was
unexectedly cool and it rained a bit on Sunday. We had a lot of almost Qs and almost titles, but one actual Q for our Advanced Snooker title. In Starter's Standard Tsuki did his weaves, a squeaker of a contact on the dogwalk, a good contact on the a-frame, a slow but acceptable down on the table. We headed for the final two jumps. I'm not 100% sure we got that dogwalk contact so I'm not exactly celebrating but I'm feeling good about the run. Tsuki rarely drops bars - but he did this time. No Q, and the dropped bar was the only fault. We were 8 seconds under time. In Masters Pairs my partners dog went off course - an elimination - but we've done that as was - that's the breaks. Tsuki did his part well enough but they won't give us a time with the E so I don't know how fast he was. I needed one Advanced Snooker leg for my Advanced Snooker title. We had only one judge so we walked the course while she was judging in the other ring. The number 7 obstacle was the teeter. Ordinarily I'd use it because Tsuki's teeter is very reliable. But it wasn't in a good location so I went with a 5 (triple) and two 6s (jump combination). It went fine until we got to the closing sequence. As soon as Tsuki took the 2 jump we got a whistle. Turns out I had walked the course wrong and the jump was supposed to be taken the other way. Well it wasn't marked correctly according to my training, and I thought the flag position was in the rules. It isn't (or I didn't find it) but the rules DO require a briefing which we didn't get. I mentioned it to the trial secretary who mentioned it to the judge. The judge agreed that those of us who got whistled off at that point could re-run. yay! Tsuki was very ... um ... relaxed at the start line. Like as in lying on his side. But as alwyas he took off like a shot. Although I was not told to do so I thought it only fair to do the same strategy since I wouldn't have changed it if I had gotten the direction correct in the first place. Which meant I had to put up with a little less than perfect positioning. But I got him through the course. We qualified with first place! So now we are in Masters Snooker. And if you had told me that at the beginning of the year I would have thought you were nuts! Sunday Starters Standard Tsuki did very solid contacts, not just toe nails. His weave was quite nice, until he popped out at 11 but he fixed tha quickly enough. But he was slow on the down on the table. I thought we had a clean run. I was thrilled. That would finish our Starters Standard and our AD (Agility Dog) title. But I was wrong. We were 1.24 seconds over time. *sigh* And in Advanced Jumpers I was certain we had completed our title and could move up to Masters. It was a wonderful feeling run. Unfortunately I got disoriented and retook a jump instead of taking the one to the right of it. I didn't even know I had done it until I saw our score and found someone who could tell me. Boy was I disappointed. Oh well, next week. And for the Freeway report. Gosh that dog has a wonderful recall. There was a big field I turned him loose to play in. He really really wanted to play with some dogs but their owners didn't want him to. And I called him and he came running back full blast. I got to call him off several dogs during the week-end, and usually long before he even got to them. And when I say "call-off" I mean merely running up the way one expects in a free-play area. For the short time I've had him it was a delightful thing to see as it meant he got more freedom. And he may have shorter legs than Tsuki, but he's fast. Nearly as fast as the Kelpie he was playing with, and absolutely as agile. -- Diane Blackman http://dog-play.com/ http://dogplay.com/Shop/ |
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