Canine Capers AKC trial Day 2

Day 2 started much later for us because it was tall to small.  I think we got there by 11am. Really I was feeling bad this morning and if we hadn't drove with my friend, I would have just driven home and not gone to the trial. It sucks when your body hurts all over for no freaking reason.

First up was Miley's Master standard run.

I decided I needed a lead out with a front cross after #3 in order to be able to cue the correct tunnel entrance. It worked except she dropped the bar. Ack!!  Man, look at the holes in the dirt next to the weave poles. Its the theme for Sunday. I dont know why I didnt notice when I was running. My poor dogs.  So this is a nice run but she also went to the outside of jump16.  Sometimes I dont understand Miley. She probably thinks the same thing about me. LOL

 

 

Then Java's 1st time in Excellent JWW. 

So I decided that my dogs would come out wide after the number 4 tunnel. It looks ok on the course map but when you walked it  jump #5,  was pulled  in more so the dog didnt see it coming out and could easily miss it.  Most people just stayed on the opposite side of #5 and just called their dog over and then pushed to 6. But because I thought  my dog would go wide around 5, I decided to blind after 4 and again after 5.  I saw several people do this and thought I could do it too. LOL, yea my blind was late , so she went off course over that #17 jump. I got her back. We stayed on course the rest of the time. Her yards per second was 5.4 so hard for me to believe. Imagine how fast she was going since that did include all the extra she ran. Whoohoo Java. (again big holes next to the weave poles).



  Ok , now Im really tired, my body hurts and Im hungry. No time to eat. I ate at 7am and now its 3pm.  I only had candy in my bag. I need to pack better.  And both Java and Mileys runs are at  the same time.  Ugh, I hate when that happens. Java's ring took priority. But they were running a little slow.  So I was stressed. First thinking I was running Java and then having to switch to run Miley because the other ring was running slow. My head wasnt in the game and I knew it.  I tried to pull it together but just couldnt.  So I really screwed up Miley's run.  Finally Im telling myself during my run that "you have to get your shit together Now".  And we did. Yay!! To bad I didnt do that in the beginning. ( I know most of you wouldnt post this run but this is just how agility goes sometimes. And I hate to see people give up when they run their dogs. They practically walk the course the rest of the way because they are defeated)



I decided I was going to run Java with everything I had.

I really thought my dog knew rear cross into the weaves. I guess not.  Ill be working on that.  Also, Im not sure why she didnt drive to the table. I told her table when she was on the cross part of the dogwalk. We've seen this before and have practiced it too. Weird. I ran  the tire to the chute differently then Miley because Java wouldnt let me lead out but it worked.  Both dogs, I rear crossed the chute and just told then "right" when they were in the chute. And they both got it!!  Lots of dogs turned the wrong way coming out of the tunnel even in Masters.

 

 

 

 

I was beat at the end of the day. Then had to wait around ,just a little, to get my videos and I bought a couple of pictues. But becuase I didnt have my glasses on, I ordered a picture of someone else's dog instead of Miley. Ugh!!  I didnt know this until I got home.  Well, at least I got the right videos. LOL

Canine Capers AKC trial

I went to Atlanta, Ga  this weekend for an agility trial.  My friend and I drove together because I was worried driving 4 hours by my self after work. Im just tired after working. So it really helped having someone to talk to. We didnt get there until 10pm at night. I had a hard time going to sleep but finally did around 12:30am. Morning came fast.
 The trial was at a big park. It was under cover, which was nice. But makes it hard to video because its dark , at least to the camera, in the ring and all this light coming through around the open sides.  So you camera cant take good video. There was someone there taping all the runs. You just had to go and buy them. Then they put them all on  a flash drive. Pretty nice especially when everyone is running at the same time and no one can tape.

 

Java had a nice run.  I thought I didnt have a good chance of getting the correct tunnel entrance when I saw this.

 

I told myself , more laterally, declerate and use an off arm cue. It worked and she got it.

She broke her start line, so I guess I have more work to do.

We got our 3rd Q and get to move up to excellent !!

 

 

 

Miley  had a nice Master JWW run. Besides turning the wrong way after #16, which Im not sure why. So if you see why, let me know. She Qed and took 3rd place. Whoohoo Miley!!

 

 

 

This was a sorta tough course. Lots of dogs going for the off course jump after the chute. Tons of dogs taking the #1 tunnel after the dogwalk. They were suppose to turn tight and take the DW under the tunnel. Then coming out of the #12 tunnel the would take jump 14 and not go the the table.

 

Miley was awesome. We were almost to the end, and she turned the wrong way after the tire, I got her back and she just came with me and didnt take the triple jump. Ack!!  So close. LOL

 

 

The bad thing that happen was the chute wasnt put together right. Nothing happened when I ran with Miley but my friend ran a few dogs in front of me and something happened in the chute.  The dog didnt seem right after a few jumps so he walked off with her. He said he saw other dogs have problems too. I saw a dog come out butt first, like his head was stuck and they finally got out. So when they looked a the chute, someone hadnt attached the chute to the barrel correctly.  There was a big fold in the chute material. So if your dog hit that side of the chute, it was like  hitting a wall of fabric and they had trouble getting out. But if the dog hit the other side of the chute, it wasnt a problem.  I saw the still photo of the his dog coming out of the chute. It looked bad. So something to check when your running your dog at a trial.

 

The open standard course is almost the same as Masters, they just took out a few jumps at the end. I really thought I would get the correct tunnel after the dogwalk. I would cue a tight turn and then say tunnel. No problem. LOL big problem. She collected when I said , "right, right, right , right". Then I said tunnel and she took the tunnel straight ahead. LOL, I called her and said, "no this tunnel".   I then put her in the correct tunnel and she almost ran right into me coming out of tunnel.

 

 

 

We stayed for the b-match. I worked weave poles, teeters and dogwalks. My dogs both did great.  We got to the trial at 7am and left a 7pm. What a long day. But fun.  More to come later.