Here are Fridays videos

This is the wild jumpers course where she just ran her own course. I had a couple of late cues and it went down hill from there.

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Here is our novice standard run. I released her before I was in position to cue the correct tunnel entrance so she took the wrong one. I put her in the correct entrance and finished running. This was our "Q" run , you are allowed one off course.

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Someone asked me about running on the fake truf. It seemed ok to me. I saw just a few dogs slip. Several times I saw dobermans having trouble and I saw one sheltie slip coming out of the chute. Other than that it seemed ok. One problem was a dog peed on a spot and that spot then continued to be a problem for other dogs. They kept cleaning it but it was still a problem.

Today wasnt our day

I woke up this morning feeling great. I thought today was going to be our day. I was so happy that we were getting to run in Open standard. Finally out of novice, which I was beginning to wonder it that would ever happen. Well apparently I wasn't nervous at all today. So relaxed that I was whistled out of the ring for "training in the ring". Miley jumped the a-frame contact and I brought her back to me to sit and the judge whistled me out.

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So I was embarrassed and mad. I know , stupid, but sometimes you cant help how you feel. I just wanted to go home. She didn't get the weaves so that is a big problem area. I even packed up all my stuff and put it in the car. Then I decided this was stupid. I didn't want to end the weekend like that and I didn't want that to be in Miley memory. So I decided to stay and do the jumpers course. I think I did well at keeping her active but not to active and my legs didn't hurt. Here's are jumpers run, so close. One dropped bar or we would have taken first. How many times has that been said. LOL

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Mr. Toads wild ride.

Isn't that the name of a ride at Disney World? Lol. Since yesterday Miley was so wipe out and so was I, I decided to have a new plan . I haven't told you this but I have fibromyalgia. It makes you feel like you are getting the flu. Most of the time you ache all over. Ive had it over 4 years now. Going to a trial sometimes really makes it flare up. Yesterday I was trying to keep Miley active, walking her and playing ball with her. So by the end of the trail day she refused to walk up the steps. They were steep steps. I guess I made her go up and down them to much. As for me, when I was doing my jumpers walk thur yesterday , Meagan asked me "How's it going?". I quite sure she was talking about my walking the course and my plan. My legs were hurting so bad at this time I wanted to burst out crying and say, "My legs hurt so bad and I feel terrible. I just want to go home". But of course I didn't say that. I just said, " Fine, I'm just trying to decide if I should front cross or rear cross". I didn't think I could run in the walk thur but I decided mind over matter. I forced myself to run one time with my walk thru. Anyway that was yesterday and we had a great jumpers run. My legs were killing me until about 9pm last night. Miley slept until 7pm last night and then was full of herself and wanted to play. At 10pm I just turned out the lights and she settled down, but was ready to go at 5am.



So today's plan was not to walk as much to keep my leg pain down and not to do stairs with Miley. I would carry her down the stairs or walk all the way around to the other side and come in on the ground floor. Our first run was Novice standard. She did great. We "Q"ed and took 2nd place. So now we can move up to open standard. Now Ive accomplished my goals for the weekend. After Miley's run I had her get a message and she was sore in her right hip area. After that I put her in her crate to rest. It was a long rest because I worked the excellent standard 20 inch dogs. I think there were 76 dogs in this class. It was a long class. No to long after that was my jumpers run. We walked the course and it seemed nice. We started out nice but missed the second jump in the pinwheel. Not sure why. Then came around thru the tunnel over a jump , with 180 degree turn into the weaves. She got the entry and popped out after pole 9 or 10. Went into the next pinwheel and took the off course jump straight ahead and that when the wild ride started. She was just so excited, taking jump after jump and not coming back on course. I couldn't get her back on any type of course. I ran to the end of the line and she came to me. WhooHoo. Put her leash on, no problem. I felt like she was running around the ring saying ,"I'm free, I'm free, Look at me!!".

So Miley has too much energy and wasn't tired. My legs don't hurt at all. Maybe tomorrow I will find a happy medium. The Internet here at the hotel is terrible so I'm not posting any video. I cant even check my email.

Open Jumpers video

Here is the video from Thursday's jumpers round. It took forever for me to post just this one little video.

I forgot to tell you that my first run was at 10am and my second run was at 1:45. Less than four hours apart. WhooHoo!

Miley gets her jumpers Q

Today went really well. I felt much better on the start line. I could remember all three of my words and even some lines to a song. We ran standard first and had some trouble at the chute. But it felt like a great run. Sometimes I hate watching the video because it doesn't look as great as it felt running it. In jumpers she ran great and took first place. People I didn't know were coming up to me saying what a great run it was. Special thanks to Meagan for helping me out.

Sorry, Ive tried for hours to upload the video and its a no go. Maybe tomorrow I can get some where that has a better connection. The picture above is Miley when we got back to the hotel.

B Match

We ran in the "B" match. We had some problems but over all we did ok. The flooring on the ground was like fake grass, but thick fake grass. Ive never seen anything like it. I ran Miley first in standard. It started out great. Fantastic teeter then a turn into the a-frame. OMG she jumped the contact. I brought her back to me and made her sit at the bottom of the contact and then released her. Then tunnel , broad jump and into the weaves. She jumped right on the table. On the table I made her down. While waiting for the count, she was shaking all over. I guess from excitement. I released her, over a jump and back over the a-frame. She jumped off the a-frame even higher up. Holy crap, she is going to break her leg. I brought her back again and placed her a couple of feet above the contact and told her "touch". She still jumped it. Finally I just put her in the "touch" position. When we ran out of the ring, she seemed pretty happy. I started feeling down about the contacts. What am I going to do? Then I remember my new positive attitude. I decided not to worry about the contacts and run her again. I couldn't remember my three words, Fun, Confident, happy, when I walked into the ring. Ok regroup. Be calmer, think happiness. Our second run went much better. I ran my own course, she popped out of the weaves, ran around the table but as soon as she hit the table I released her. I'm not sure what the trouble with the tunnel was. But all her contacts were great and she came to me after the run. WhooHoo

Then we had a little bit of a wait for the jumpers run. That run I finally felt normal when I went to the line. We had a good run, a couple of wide turns and she missed the weaves. I know I didn't cue it right but I couldn't figure out how to let her know about the turn into the weaves. After missing the weaves, she took a jump and then around into the weaves. WhooHoo all the way down. I threw her toy/bait bag and ran out of the ring. She got treats right outside the ring. I really hope that made an impression on her to tomorrow.

I forgot to bring socks. I have an extra set of clothes I keep in the car so I have at least on pair. I guess I have to go buy some.

The last part of the video wont upload, where she goes over the jump and then does the weaves. O well.

Getting ready to go

Well, I'm getting ready to go to my trial. Its about 2 1/2 hours from here. I decided to stay in a hotel this time. Maybe it will easier on Miley if she has less crate time. Today there is a "B" match. I signed up for 3 runs, two standard and one jumpers. Its an indoor trial on matting. (Its where they held the AKC nationals this year). Since Miley has never run on this type of flooring I wanted to give her a chance to run on it. My goals for this trial is to get one JWW "Q" and one Standard "Q". I have six chances soooo.... My other goals are to come to the ring looking confident. I don't look confident when I watch my tapes at trials. When I watch Sarah ( Misty and Oreo's mom) she looks so confident at the start line. I don't know if she really is but it doesn't matter because its what she is showing. My words to bring into the ring with me are "Fun, Confident and Happiness".

Its been cool the last 2 mornings and Ive had some good walks with the dogs. Yesterday when we got back from the hiking trail, we all had ticks on us. Yuk!! So today I took them to the other park. Since it was so cool I could walk at a brisk pace and kept everyone trotting almost the whole walk. And the good news was Miley came to me to put her leash on before the walk. Even thought she new we were going in the car. There is hope yet.

The only bad thing that happened today was I was going to throw the ball for Miley. As my arm was coming through the swing, she did a spin before she was going to take off and the front of her snout hit my hand. Ouch! She ran away from me and didn't want to play ball anymore. But after the walk, apparently she wasn't tired, and brought me the ball. So we played for a few minutes.

And what do Chihuahua's like to do?