October 16th – 18th was the Willamette Agility Group’s NADAC Trial. Earlier in this month NADAC announced that the Championships were going to be back in Gillette Wyoming in 2010 and Jordana and I want to go again! So we looked at the requirement and what it would take to have Hershey run in the Double Digit Division, Kant in the Veterans Division, and PITA & Echo in the Skilled Regular Division. We have some work ahead of us. Since Jordana has to work weekends for the rest of the year I said I would run her dogs so we put Hershey in on Saturday and PITA in on Sunday. And of course I ran my dogs both days. That added up to 28 runs for me!!
The weather was perfect for agility, rain was predicted for Friday night and all day Saturday but that did not happen and there was just a brief but intense rain shower Saturday afternoon. And Sunday was the most beautiful fall day with all the leaves changing and blue sky! The Trial Committee did an awesome job of keeping things running smoothly and provided lots of fun. They asked all of us that had agility flags to bring them and they hung them along the far side of the arena; it looked amazing. On Sunday they presented the first time runners with a cake to celebrate their plunge in to NADAC! Waggers truly are the best and they know how to put on a trial!!
The weather was perfect for agility, rain was predicted for Friday night and all day Saturday but that did not happen and there was just a brief but intense rain shower Saturday afternoon. And Sunday was the most beautiful fall day with all the leaves changing and blue sky! The Trial Committee did an awesome job of keeping things running smoothly and provided lots of fun. They asked all of us that had agility flags to bring them and they hung them along the far side of the arena; it looked amazing. On Sunday they presented the first time runners with a cake to celebrate their plunge in to NADAC! Waggers truly are the best and they know how to put on a trial!!
Brags: Friday night was one round of Hoopers where Kant was running for the second time in Elite and Echo was in Novice; they both did amazing and Q’d. Saturday I ran Hershey in both rounds of Open Regular, we had a great run in Round 1 and Q’d but he could not get his dogwalk contact in Round 2 so only 1 Q for Hershey.
Kant continued to establish her membership in the one bar club knocking one bar in all 4 Regulars, Saturday’s Jumpers, and Chances. We could not get the Sunday Chances distance and directional. Thank goodness for those non-jumping classes, Kant Qualified in Weavers, Touch’N’Go, and Tunnelers. She also Q’d in Hoopers on Sunday earning her Elite Hoopers Title.
But the BIGGEST brag is we did get a Jumpers Q on Sunday, only 6 more to go until our NATCh!!! Those Jumpers Qs just make the whole weekend!!! Echo and I struggled on Saturday; she does not do well if I am not confident on the course. She knocked bars and had off courses in Jumpers and both Regulars on Saturday. She did manage to get her first Weavers Q with a run that did not go as I had planned. Sunday we were a much better team, she did knock a bar in Jumpers and had an off course in one of the Regulars but she was way more focused. She did Q in one of the Regulars and had the best Tunnelers run finishing less than 1 second behind Kant’s time and running 6.25 yards per second. She also Q’d in Hooper with a run that only lasted 17.18 seconds.
On Sunday PITA got to run. Jordana came down to run her in Jumpers before she went to work; they had a great run but PITA took a tunnel before she was suppose to so no Q on that run. I ran her in both Regulars, in Round 1 we had an off course (those dang tunnels) and we got a Q in Round 2 after I finally got PITA to quit obsessing with meeting the judge and do agility with me. That Q finished PITA’s Novice Agility Certificate.
I had a blast running all the dogs and was very excited that I survived! And I was pleased with each and every dog and almost every run!!!!
Joe Camp and his photographs were missed!
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