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Alaska State Fair - Tok's agility debut....outside...and fires.
Two years ago Kavik made his outdoor agility debut at our clubs state fair
demo. I remember reporting to folks here about it and getting excellent advice. This year it was Toklats turn. I was very worried about control and recall issues. The corral is fenced but its made for horses - dogs can go right through. Luckily, I worried for nothing - while Tok wasn't perfect, he did listen well and came whenever called, right away. He did miss a couple of jumps, but thats ok - it was his first time with an audience and his first time outdoors. I expected much worse. He did very well in the relay race, making up a great deal of time for some other dogs. He does run very close to me, which might be my doing as I got freaked out every time he got ahead of me. Next time I will be less freaked out and work more on handling him properly. This time the goal was no zoomies or running off and he did great at succeeding at those two goals. He also did great with the spectators. His coat is coming in finally, and he is fluffy and adorable. Several people wanted to know where to get one. I gave them my phone number. There is alot to discuss before they should get a kees. like Barking. He did bark at first- in frustration and excitement, but quickly he settled down. He did fidget and need alot of attention to keep him focused but thats ok, he will settle down as he gets to do more outdoors stuff. One thing that was neat- the delta pet partners gal was parked right next to me and when she returned to her car she saw several kids with their hands in my car, petting tok. She was horrified, but noticed that tok seemed perfectly happy to be petted. When she told me I said "stupid kids, but he is fine with that" she told me she had seen how he was perfectly fine with that and how suprised she was. I explained that keeshond are supposed to be pretty non-aggressive and that Tok appeared to be a total pacifist. She was impressed and said she is looking forward to having him in the pet partners program. On another, more interesting note: my office had a very bad fire on saturday. According to this article ( http://www.adn.com/front/story/3752851p-3780585c.html) the building will be inhabitable on monday however, the building manager said 3-4 months. EEK. Luckily a fireman saved my file server backup tape. My hero |
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