WAG October NADAC Trial

After a couple of weeks of no agility and getting caught up on things around the house I was looking forward to the NADAC Trial in Corvallis. Last year one of the judges had to spend too much time at the airport waiting for the other judge to arrive. I told her I would have picked her up and so this year that is what happened.

The flight arrived at 9:47am and we did not have to be in Corvallis until 4pm, so many options. Where do you take someone that is from Calgary Canada? The beach of course! So that is what we did. Straight from the Portland Airport to Lincoln City; we got there at lunch time so we stopped at Kylo’s for a hot crab sandwich and clam chowder, yum. After lunch it was time to take a walk on the beach with the dogs. The judge had her border collie and I had Kant, Echo, and the foster puppy Bing! Everyone had a great time chasing sea gulls and waves,

and running on the beach.

It was a beautiful day at the beach, no wind or rain.

Time to head to Corvallis came too quickly and after getting some of the sand off the dogs we were loaded back up.

As we were driving through Lincoln City on Hwy 101 we passed a surf shop with a fake “tube” with a surf board. Someone was having their picture taken and I said to Keri wouldn’t it be fun to take pictures of the dogs, she agreed so I turned around. It was great fun!

Beach Bums!

Hang Ten!

Bitchin’

We did manage to see a couple of lighthouses in Newport before heading inland and to the trial. We did not quite make it by 4pm but we were there before 5pm.

Friday night we ran two classes; Touch’N’Go, and Tunnelers. Neither Echo or Kant got TNG,

they both had off-courses but not the same one. I tried running Kant from the Tunnelers bonus line and we did pretty good but I had to step in and help, we still Q’d.

Echo had a smoking, qualifying Tunnelers run. I took home three very tired dogs.

We were back up before the sun Saturday morning to head back to Corvallis for a full day of agility. Hershey came along to celebrate his agility retirement. He was very happy to be there and share his gluten free dog treats with all his four-legged friends. I heard that some of the two-legged friends also gave Hershey a treat.

Jordana and PITA were there on Saturday; Jordana was only able to run PITA in Chances before she had to leave for work. They did not qualify in Chances and we did not Q in Regular 1.

But PITA and I did go one to Qualify in all the other classes

which finished her Novice Hoopers Title and PITA got 1st Place in Novice Jumpers. I am glad I made Jordana enter her on the one day, she had a great day!!

The girls and I did not have a very good day; they were both entered in all 6 classes: 2 Regulars, Chances, Weavers, Jumpers, and Hoopers. Kant started out great with a beautiful Regular 1 run but then knocked a bar in Regular 2 and a bunch of bars in Jumpers. She did redeem herself in Weavers and Hoopers with two beautiful runs and a 50% Q rate. Echo on the other hand did not qualify in either Regular or Chances but there were pieces that were great.

She did have beautiful runs in Jumpers, Weavers, and Hoopers, she ran Weavers in 5.92 yards per second and finished her Open Superior Hoopers Title also having a 50% Q rate. My baby is going to enter her first Elite class at the next NADAC trial.

I would like to say Sunday was better but out of 5 classes the girls were entered in Kant only qualified in Regular 1. We had an off-course in Chances

and 1 knocked bar in Jumpers. Weavers we ran in the dark because of a storm that had blown in and Kant could not find the weave poles causing us to be .5 seconds over time. Echo’s Q rate was a bit better qualifying in 3 of the 5 classes. She got a Regular Q, another Jumpers, and another Weavers. She also struggled running Weavers in the dark. Thank goodness the lights came on right before Novice started.

Even though we did not take home a bunch of ribbons I had a great time with friends, outstanding judges that brought great courses, and the best dogs in the world. WAG once again put on a great trial. And of course Thanks to Joe Camp for capturing the moments for me!!