Day two

Im finally back home. I got home last night and boy was I beat. Sunday it was 90 degrees and sunny. I had a headache all day and just couldnt get rid of it. So driving 4 hours home was tough but I made it. Miley doesnt like the sun. Half way thur the day she wouldnt leave the crateing site. Its hard to warm up your dog when she had to stay in the shade. But once she is in the ring, no problem. Runs like she is on fire.
First up was gamblers. I wasnt sure if we should run because the grass was really wet and I saw some dogs slip. But I decided to do something easy. I really just wanted to practice weave poles, the tire and the dogwalk. I dont think I told you that yesterday she crashed the tire. I could have kicked myself for not asking someone to tape my run. But then I feel like Im being a pain. So I have no idea what happened with the tire. Someone said they think she was just looking at me and not the tire. Plus is was on an uphill grade so she met up with the ground sooner than she thought. It wasnt a bad crash. Anyway back to gamblers. She ran the course, not to much craziness but not as smooth as I would have liked. She didnt stop on either dogwalk contact. Ugh! Lots of work to do there. She got the gamble. I didnt think we had enough points with the dogwalk misses but when I checked the sheet we did. O,yea today on the gamblers course you could do anything, back to back contacts or obstacles.
A girl came up to me after my run and said, "I love watching your dog run. Its like she's on crack out there". LOL good thing she didnt see that snooker run yesterday.
Next was our pairs run. I really wish I had this run on video. But they were calling my name at the practice jump so I didnt have time to ask anyone. I let the other girl go first because on the first half of the course was an a-frame and I didnt think Miley would hit the contact. This judge was very nice and really explained the rules for all of us new people. You have to have your leash off your dog before your grab the baton. You could place your hand on your dog but couldnt be grabbing them to hold them. I was very worried that Miley was just going to take off like a shot. I was concentrating so hard on my own dog that I didnt even think about the other dog. When the girl gave me the baton, I told Miley to wait and did a small lead out. I released her and we took off. And so did the other dog. Barking and chasing after Miley on the course. I really just didnt know what I was suppose to do. Do I stop, keep going? I had no idea. Miley got on the teeter and the other dog jumped in her face and was barking. Miley jumped off the teeter. The judge said "go on". But I was confused. Miley had put all four paws on the teeter so I wasnt allowed to put her back on. But I thought the judge meant I just had to keeping going with this dog chasing us. So I put Miley back on the teeter and the judge blew the whistle. Then it dawned on me why. So this dog is still chasing Miley, I call Miley and she came right to me and I picked her up. (I really thought she was going to go into cirlcing mode and then we would really have problems). Then a really nice person asked the judge if I could run my side again just to make sure Miley has a positive experience in the ring. She said sure. Miley ran like a pro with a beautiful flawless run. The poor girl I ran with was so upset. She just kept apoliziging. I told to really not worry about it. Miley and I have had lots of crazy runs. I told it was my fault too. I should have made sure she had her dog before I took off. It was a learning experience for me. Miley was such a funny dog. You should have seen the look on her face during the run with this dog chasing her.I think she was thinking, "What the heck. Im working dog, get out of here. This is AGILITY, get lost" LOL
Next was steeplechase. I had asked someone to tape my run but something happened. When I looked at the tape its video of the ground, a dog walking by then the screen is black for a while, the their hand, their shirt and then the sky. Im not sure what happened. The lens comes out of the camera and it would be hard to put your hand in front of it but thats what it looks like happened. So no video. Our run was ok. The most exciting thing was she hit her a-frame contact both time. WhooHoo. I really wish I had the video because I would have liked to seen what she did to hit it. She missed the weaves and did a big circle around the ring once but I got her back and she ran nice.
Last was jumpers. I didnt realize until I was driving home that Miley got her jumpers starters title on Saturday. Sundays course was so easy and flowing. It should have been no problem. I did a lead out but it just wasnt enough for me to cue the turn in the right place. I was to far behind and should have done and outside arm rear cross but I used and inside arm which turned her over the wrong jump but we didnt miss a beat and got back on course and finshed nicely. Nice run, to bad I screwed it up. LOL.