I entered the CRAC, Columbia River Agility Club, agility trial in Albany on my birthday weekend. This was Echo’s second AKC agility trial. She is still having bizarre teeter behavior so I entered her in Jumpers with Weaves and FAST on Saturday and Jumpers with Weaves and Standard on Sunday. We were able to avoid the teeter and qualify in FAST and on Sunday she had a pretty nice teeter because I was able to be right there to remind her we do not attack the teeter for moving. Echo qualified in all 4 classes, earning her Novice Jumpers with Weaves title!!! I have been thinking about taking a break from agility with Echo but am now wondering if we should just do more AKC for a while. Kant was not so nice to me on my birthday weekend and only qualified in Jumpers with Weaves on Saturday. I think she is telling me she is done with AKC agility; not to worry Kant I am listening!!
I had a very quiet birthday; my favorite kind!! With lots of wonderful birthday wishes from friends and family!!
I usually spend my birthday weekend at the RCA trial in Central Point but this year it was the weekend after my birthday.
The location for the RCA NADAC trial is great!! It has lots of great crating room that is above the arena. Besides having to go down stairs every time you go to the ring the view is great. Jill works so hard to keep this trial going and I am happy to come down and do the scoring. It feels like a WAG trial because of all the Waggers that travel down to that trial!
On Friday night Kant and I tried another bonus line and it was flawless and breathtaking earning our first 15 point bonus!! A bonus line is a line at the front of the course that you cannot cross while directing your dog through all the obstacles and the dog has to stay on the path without any redirects; at the furthest point Kant was about 66 feet from me. It was addicting!! Going in to this trial we only needed 1 jumpers for NATCH-2 but we had an off course in Round 1 and a knocked bar in Round 2; bummer, maybe next time. Kant did have some awesome runs and I really felt like a team with her this weekend; she got all 4 Regulars, a Chances, two Tunnelers, and of course that beautiful bonus Weavers run.
Echo also had a great weekend only have a complete meltdown, disconnect in one run. But she finished her Open Superior Weavers title, got her first Open Touch’N’Go Q, and got her Open Outstanding Regular title.
Slick even managed to add 10 more points to his lifetime points with a very nice 1st place Open Jumpers run. He also had a marathon pee in Tunnelers! In the 10 years I have been doing agility this is the first dog I have had potty in the ring and that pee made up for everyone else!!
Thank you Dwayne for some great judging and courses!! Thank you Jill and RCA for continuing to put on the trial!! Thank you to all the WAGgers that traveled down to Medford for some fun with your dogs!!
