Finally an agility trial agility! Saturdays are increasingly busy with even earlier classes, daytime lessons, and 4-H kids in the evening – which makes getting up on Sunday morning very hard. It was great to have a day mostly with the dogs. The trial was pretty small and we ended Read more…
Right now our Saturday classes are extremely popular – a class of 4 and of 10 beginners in agility, 5 dogs in manners, and 5 in an intermediate agility class – plus additional private sessions. We also have to cancel for seminars, trials hosted at our building (WCRL rally and Read more…
We did AKC Agility on Friday. I’ve been arriving at trials too late, this time I arrived many, many hours earlier than needed. It gave me time to watch quite a few of the Excellent dogs, train my dogs (outside – the trial site was very crowded), go on a Read more…
Somehow Blaze is 15! For a dog with a not-so-great background, I had expected him to be crippled by hip dysplasia or to get hemangiosarcoma well before this point. But he’s still doing extremely well. I wish we had removed the mass on his front leg a few years ago, that’s Read more…
One of my goals for this year is to do a better job of making notes after trials and events. I need to remember to get pictures of course maps and I need to ask others to help video our runs. Griffin and I had our second trial AKC trial Read more…
Last weekend we did our first UKI agility trial at the “Senior” level. This meant we got the harder level courses. I recognize most of the people there from other trials and events but don’t really “know” many of them. I need to get brave and ask someone to take Read more…
One of the things we’ve been working on is setting up specific courses and/or sequences and running things created by other people. When I set up my own exercises I end up with more common patterns and I don’t get the same practice in remembering a course. We work through Read more…
End of December we did UKI and are now going to be in Senior. All the runs were great with very tiny things to fix. 1) I walked a wrong class – luckily I noticed before we ran. 2) I didn’t feel confident enough to get the higher-point gamble (distance Read more…
We set some goals yearly and quarterly – this can help keep me on track and not get too distracted by other things. I am an ‘over-packing’ ‘over-preparing’ sort of person and this also means I over-set goals – I’m happy having more than what we can accomplish than to Read more…
December 5-6 was a sad trial weekend for me – even though Griffin did really, really well! Each December there is a huge AKC ‘cluster’ show with conformation, obedience, agility, rally and a lot of vendors. I’ve been hearing about it since Blaze was a puppy. I’ve driven by before Read more…