Day 2 , Im beat

The good news was that Miley slept all night and I didnt have to even turn the tv on for noise. It was pouring rain when we left the hotel but it turned into a very nice day. I was in the first class of the day, snooker. I went to walk Miley and the mountains were really cool looking. The clouds and mist hanging over them and then a little bit of sun coming thur. Very cool. I wanted to go back and get my camera. But I needed to get Miley walked before our run. I was torn what to do. Which got me thinking, I must not be as addicted to agility as I thought. LoL. I didnt go back and get my camera. Lol But it was a pretty sight.

Here is the snooker course map. Someone told me it was the easiest snooker course she had ever seen. All I could say was , "good". We had a very nice snooker run. Miley didnt creep on her start line. She did all 3 reds to a color and then we started the closing. She was doing great and then ran past the weaves. Silly dog. I thought yesterday she couldnt get in at speed but the more I thought about it, she just didnt want to slow down. Its all about speed for Miley. Its faster to run by. LoL I had decided before my run that she was getting in the weave poles if we spent the whole 50 seconds of our run trying. So I told her "Nope" and she went into a big circle. I didnt care, I told her weave. I dont know how she did it , but she did. She was flying and coming in at such an angle. So we are back on course. Then I was so worried that should would miss the jump #7A coming out of the tunnel that I took off for that end to soon and she took the wrong tunnel entrance. Ugh! (It doesnt look like it on the course map but the jump was off set and you saw the red jump coming out of the tunnel). So we didnt "Q" but still got second place and I was happy for it. LoL

Next was Grand Prix. I was a little nervous but after her really staying with me and coming into me on the snooker course I figured we could do it.


We were doing well until my bad front cross after #9 and I was standing almost blocking the teeter. I had already said "teeter" to Miley. I went to move out of the way and turned my shoulders. I look down and Miley is on the teeter and when I turned it pulled her off. Crap. We got back on course. She went into the tunnel but got into the 2nd weave pole. I thought about fixing it but decided not to. Then she is flying across the dogwalk and flys off the end. Huge leap over the contact. I was so shocked I couldnt even finish handling the course. Im not sure if she even took the last few jumps. This dog is crazy. Anyway to go faster, dont do the weaves and fly off your contacts. So you leave the ring feeling bad but I have to tell you, Meagan will always make you feel better. She always has something positive to say about your run.

I almost left after that run. Not because it wasnt great, I was just tired and had a 2 hour ride home. But I decided to stay. And good thing I did. Last was our starters jumpers run. Nice course but you know Miley and I can screw up even the easiest courses. LoL There wasnt anything to slow her down, you know weaves, contacts and tables. And she was awesome. This was the only video I have from today.
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Fletcher USDAA trial

Well its been a long day! I got up at 4am to be at the trial by 7am. Miley still needs to be measured. She got her third measurement but there is no CMJ and so far there hasnt been at any of the trials I've been to. So I have to keep keep getting measured. So even though I needed to be there by 7am to be measured I didnt run until 12noon. I hate waiting. While waiting I took Miley out to run and play ball. I also got a couple of cute pictures before the rain came in.








Apparently the President is here too. Yesterday, when he flew in, they closed all the roads. So some people couldnt get to the trial for a while. All I saw was the airplane. This is taken from the trial site.



My goals for the weekend was to just try to react quicker so Miley deosnt realize she was wrong. Im also downing her when she creeps at the start line. I really felt like I was successful until I watched the videos. They look so bad but it didnt feel that bad to me. I didnt get the pairs run on tape but it was just a big loop around the outside of the ring. Miley missed the weave poles. Im not sure what that was about. I didnt watch my partner run. I was to busy trying to keep Miley happy. She was just giving me the funnest look. You have to wait in the ring until your partner is done running. Miley wasnt sure why we werent running to get treats since our run was finish. The other part to that was they were walking Steeplechase and I hadnt been over there yet because of this class. So Meagan took Miley after my partner finished and I ran over and walked the steeplechase course. Im sure Miley was really happy about that. After I finished walking I took Miley and gave her some treats.
The first video is gamblers starters. I was able to keep it together until after the dogwalk. I meant to front cross to bring her over the jump that was marked #1 for the gamble. But I forgot and pushed her over the jump next to it and then it went down hill from there.
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Here is the steeplechase (performance speed jumping). She crept to much and dropped the first bar. My front cross was in the wrong place and she missed the jump. Totally my fault. Both times she didnt do the weaves, not sure why. BUT, I was able to get her back on course after the mistakes. This is huge for us.
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We finished about 4:30pm. I thought Miley was tired. I thought wrong. She just couldnt settle at the hotel room and just kept barking no matter what I did. I finally took her in the rain to a park and made her walk. But when we got back, she still couldnt settle. I finally just ignored her and she fell asleep. Thank Dog.