Training...

well today's agility class was... well certainly something... the instructor set up a course which was left over from open training time there on Sunday (which I of course went to being the agility addict I am :D) so the standard course wasn't as much fun as it otherwise would have been. The course was from last Saturday's Excellent Standard from the LCDTC - I'm really not looking forward to rerunning the courses that I just ran the weekend before now that Trixie and I are in excellent....hopefully we'll move to the higher class by Feb. so that won't happen but I have my doubts. Trixie and Scooter have been in the same class for what feels like forever (Scooter like 1 1/2 years, I know!, and Trixie about 6-7 months) and they almost always ace the courses running super fast and yet...we're still in intermediate... even some club members have come up to us to ask why we aren't in the highest level...

anyway! The standard course had a couple possible off course options - none of them were a problem for Scoot or Trix...because they had already run it like two days ago! Trixie was awesome and was the only dog in the class who ran it clean - about 39ish seconds I think. She also let me get 10+ feet away from the weaves so I could do a front cross. I also totally slipped at a tight turn but she was a good girl and took the jump anyway :) Scooter's run was somewhat less impressive... For the first 12 obstacles she was awesome then she decided to totally ignore me and eat some leaves...really Scooter?? eventually she did get back on track and did a great dogwalk! ( Trixie also pulled off an awesome running contact -props to her :)   )

In jumpers I just ran Trixie because Scooter just ignored me for a lot of standard and the jumpers courses are run on wood chips in the winter (which EVERY dog at that class likes sniffing) as a result Trixie had a pretty awful first run... after we reran it she did well but I handled it much more conservatively, so eh I was just glad that she wasn't sniffing.

After we ran our two sequences I went and worked on Trixie's new 2020, I decided that having a running contact, that's been called like 3/7-8 times at trials just wasn't worth how annoyed I was when judges called it when she actually got it... Trixie was doing really well despite another big dog totally being in her face, I actually had to push the dog away like 3 times, why people let their dogs off leash around other dogs when they just don't have control of them ill never know...

This class didn't make me too optimistic about Juniors for Scooter...I'm just hoping she doesn't totally embarrass me by walking the whole thing and refusing the teeter (she did it in class!) and then there's the USDAA trial this weekend...why I entered her in that ill never know... I should have just done standard but no I entered her in four things... ahhh Well at least I get to run Trixie, she's so fun :) Can't wait to see how she does in Juniors!