Griffin – USDAA Agility

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 up being done by 2pm (3 classes plus round two of some event). this meant the building and parking lot were fairly empty and we had extra space to warm up, play, and train.

Old picture – cute Griffin

I don’t volunteer as much as I should – I’m usually using time between runs to exercise and train my dogs or be a responsible person and do work. Because this trial was so small, I ended up working a few of the masters classes – I saw fun things and then most of those parts were left in the Starters courses for us.

Jumpers: Q/1st, our first USDAA qualifying score ever, and a 6+ yps speed!

Snooker: We lost 6 points with a weave pole fault but still ended up Q/1st with a reasonable 49 points.

Standard: Yet again, Q/1st. This was a really great run, he did very nice with his contacts, didn’t get stuck play bowing on the table, and almost everything went according to our plan. We only had trouble with the chute exit – it was a 90* turn to the dogwalk – he came out of the chute to me and somehow avoided a refusal at the dogwalk.

We really like USDAA – I need to find a way to get a Saturday off so we can get more of the Q’s we need to move up and enter some of the other events too.

No pictures or video – I took my camera and then got distracted and didn’t ask anyone to help us.

The puppies had a great time coming in for training. Tonks was very calm and relaxed after her first time in. Viktor found it much more exciting but we managed to avoid his excited loud baying/howling noises.