I’m not sure why we’re always so endlessly busy – I have decreased a few commitments but somehow have replaced those with even more things to do. We finally had another trial opportunity. Tonks has only had a handful of trial days so far. There are always things to work Read more…
We had an exciting weekend at a USDAA trial. Griffin was adorable – he had some really great runs and qualifying scores, a few small things on his part, and I had a very unfortunate run where I sent him off course. We finished his level 2 title and now Read more…
Recently we had our first seminar for 2018! One of our training friends, Fanny Gott, came to visit. She’s now come so many times that I’ve lost count – but this was our first time doing an agility seminar. We had two days of agility and then were able to Read more…
We’ve had some time off of agility. Griffin had a good trial day last month and a pretty good time last weekend. When he is participating, he is fun because he is adorable and well trained. He commits to obstacles well and just goes with the plan. Standard was interesting Read more…
It’s fun to still have ‘first’ experiences with Griffin! Last weekend we had our first time of running in the AKC premier class. This is an optional class for dogs who have finished Excellent (level 3) and want to try specific types of challenges. It is somewhat supposed to imitate Read more…
The United States Dog Agility Association (USDAA) had this event last year in Ohio and for 2017 they expanded it to three (east, west, central). We had so much fun at the trial doing agility, watching agility, rally, swimming – we had to come back even though this year it Read more…
Recently I read a training article that compared a beginner perspective (try something until you can get it right once or twice) to the perspective of someone more experienced (keep working until you don’t get it wrong). We’ve been talking about this in most of our training classes recently – Read more…
We’ve had some less than stellar trial days in November and December – sometimes fast but poor control, and sometimes great teamwork but Griffin doesn’t seem to be trying hard. As a result – we’ve not be en entering as many trials as we try to figure things out. His Read more…
A week before we left we did AKC agility. Our first time in Excellent for jumpers and then we got our last Open Standard pass. This let us jump into the level 3 (of 3) in Sweden. Over on the left, you can see the course map for that first Read more…
In the middle of the trip we had a chance to attend an agility seminar! This wasn’t a planned part of our trip but was a great opportunity . We did two half days with Isabelle Emanuelsson and Jouni Orenius. The set up was excellent – the seminar host had two Read more…