Rant!

I will have to talk more about the trial tomorrow. I'm to tired and to mad to talk about it tonight. I will however talk about the judge's call she made on me and my dog on my novice standard run. I know it had been a long 3 days for the judge but I really think she was wrong in my case. First, I'm mad at myself for not going home this morning after my jumpers run. Yesterday it was 8 hours between my jumpers run and my standard run. That's to hard for Miley and me to handle. So this morning after my first run I thought I should just go home and call it a day. But did I listen to myself , no! On to the judges call. First this judge had been very nice all weekend. She gave lots of reruns if anything weird happened. Like a fire engine drove by, it was an indoor trial but all the big garage doors were open, and she felt it effected the dogs run, so they got a rerun. So now its the last run on Sunday, novice standard. Big dogs ran first. A big standard poodle had a beautiful clean run but the dog ran out of the ring. Did the dog come back when the owner called it, no. It tried to run to the stairs and someone blocked it. Did it go back to the owner, no. It tried to run out the garage door area, but people were blocking it. Did it go back to the owner, no. The owner had to leave the ring and finally grabbed the dog as it ran by. It didn't come to her. Did she get eliminated like the rules say, no. WTH!! A while later it's Mileys turn to run. I thought she might get the zoomies because its such a long time between runs ( seven hours, why didn't I go home). We started off good, she didn't break her start line. She ran pass the weaves but came around and went right in. She was running very fast, more obstacles, then the table. She ran around the table 4 times. I think she just didn't want to stop. She had all this pent up energy. So she finally gets on and sits. Ok, runs the rest with no problems. Great a-frame and dogwalk. She stopped in her 2o/2o both times. WhooHoo. It was dogwalk to tire. The end. Did Miley run out of the ring? No. Did she go up to other people, workers, judge, dogs? No Did she run around the ring like a crazy dog? NO. Did she stay near the end of the course? yes. But she wouldnt come to me. So I tried twice to get her to come to me and she wouldn't. So I told her to stay,she did, and I started walking toward her. I'm almost to her, she is looking at me the whole time. So much so she doesn't see the judge come up behind her. Right when I get to her and I'm bending down, the judge grabs her. She said something like, "I'm just trying to protect your dog". I thought this was very weird. But I didn't think that much about it. Well guess what. She eliminated me for failure to control my dog. WTH!!! I was so mad. I couldnt even believe it. She didn't eliminate the poodle but she did Miley. I just cant believe it. I will never run my dog again without asking someone to video. That way I have proof of what happened. I tell you one thing. I'm no longer doing two runs a day with AKC. Its to hard to wait 8 hours and 7 hours for a 24 second run.