Q's for everyone! We had a perfect weekend at the SOJAC AKC trial at Dream Park - I'm so happy with everyone, especially Scooter! She finished her OA title and even got her first AXJ leg!!! She started out pretty slow and so she was 3+ seconds over time but that was enough for a Q! - if she ever gets her MACh it'll be a miracle but it will happen eventually!
Trixie finished up her NA and NAJ titles and got 2 NF legs plus 1 OA and OAJ leg - no more novice!!!! All of her runs were clean, so far so good. Q'ing for 2012 invitationals would be fantastic but I'm not sure it will be possible even if we Q 100% of the time (which we've actually been doing!) so until July I'm going to focus on trying to get her MXJ, MX and Q'ing for 2013 AKC nationals - definitely possible :)
Our Runs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llp0se8Otrw
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Thursday Class
Trixie was looking even better and it seemed like her sore spot on her left side was significantly better and she was bouncing around all day so I let her run at class tonight. She was kinda off in the outdoor ring but was awesome inside on the standard course. Scooter was also doing pretty well - I still have my fingers crossed for her OA title and her first possible AXJ leg!
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Ouch
last night at class Trixie was clearly not feeling well at all - strange considering she was absolutely fine in the morning. We took her to the vet who checked her over and apparently she's Lyme positive - fantastic... well at least we know what it is as opposed to when she was lame at 6 months old and no one had any idea what was going on. I did more stretches with her this morning and she's definitely better than last night but she definitely has a bruise/muscle tightness on the left side of her back, hopefully this is nothing that some doxycycline can't fix. I'm almost certainly not running her at all at class tomorrow night, maybe just a small lap in the grass at 8" to see how she is for the trial this weekend - I'm really hoping she'll be able to run but if she can't that's fine too - I'd rather her be healthy than push her too hard even if i really want to get out of novice. I'm definitely going on Sunday to run Scooter and I'll try and get Trix a massage while we're there if she's not any better and see if that helps her. Poor dog :(
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Perfect Weekend! - well sort of...
We finished up this weekend with 2 more Novice Q's so now just 2 more until we have our NA and NAJ! Next weekend we'll be at Dream Park again for Saturday and Sunday so we'll likely finish those and get OAJ and OA legs. We're also doing novice FAST which is always a fun class because the sends are like 2 inches :)
Once again Trixie continues to be faster in standard than JWW, I know contact obstacles are more fun more her, after all what English Cocker wouldn't want to run up a plank 4' in the air I mean really :) In JWW both days, but especially Saturday, she had some strange striding where she took some unnecessary strides before she jumped...? When did she start that? I'll have to fix that during this week, better the catch it before it's a habit... Never the less Trixie won all of her classes and had the fastest time of all the Novice dogs on Sunday's standard course. Speaking of standard...Trixie had some super nice dog walks! They were exactly what I wanted her finished product to look like, now no judge will call her for missed zones! If they start I'll just bust out my contact pants hehe :) This trial was especially awesome because there were like 8-10 English Cockers! Nothing is more fun than sizing up your AKC invitational competition ;)
Our runs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0A0AgMhkEo
Scooter is running next Sunday - fingers crossed for her to get her OA title! ...and make Excellent JWW course time...
Once again Trixie continues to be faster in standard than JWW, I know contact obstacles are more fun more her, after all what English Cocker wouldn't want to run up a plank 4' in the air I mean really :) In JWW both days, but especially Saturday, she had some strange striding where she took some unnecessary strides before she jumped...? When did she start that? I'll have to fix that during this week, better the catch it before it's a habit... Never the less Trixie won all of her classes and had the fastest time of all the Novice dogs on Sunday's standard course. Speaking of standard...Trixie had some super nice dog walks! They were exactly what I wanted her finished product to look like, now no judge will call her for missed zones! If they start I'll just bust out my contact pants hehe :) This trial was especially awesome because there were like 8-10 English Cockers! Nothing is more fun than sizing up your AKC invitational competition ;)
Our runs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0A0AgMhkEo
Scooter is running next Sunday - fingers crossed for her to get her OA title! ...and make Excellent JWW course time...
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Contact Pants - I need these!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUNN53a7884&feature=player_embedded
^^
Greatest invention ever! maybe I should get a black and white pair for Trixie ;)
Friday, March 16, 2012
Yay for trials!
Not one but two trials have happened since I updated last - at least I'm good about updating our titles in progress, mostly because I use that to remember what's actually going on because if you've ever seen the list it's kind of ridiculous... But back to the trials! Last weekend we didn't get into the local AKC agility trial so we did APDT rally instead.. :( I like rally but it's just not agility. Scooter was awesome and dependable as always earning her 7th ARChEX/RL2X2/RL3X (gosh that's a lot of titles o.0) legs with two 209's and a 2nd and a 3rd placement. Trixie went out for her first ARCh leg attempt. She had a decent level 1 run earning a 207 and 17 ARCh points (our first ones! just 83 more to go...) I completely messed her up in level 2 and so we NQ'ed.... ahh well live and learn. After Scooter finishes her ARChMX I think I'll retire from rally, at least until I get my next puppy and then I'll just do AKC Novice with him/her to just get her/him working with me at a small trial before I do agility with them.
Today was the 1st day of an agility trial in Palmyra - that's 2 1/2 hours away...but it was awesome! I was glad I didn't enter Scooter because the building was pretty echoey when we first got there. It was nice to walk her around and help build her confidence which actually didn't seem to need any building! She would jog with me and run over the practice jump without much encouragement, 1000% better than this time last year when she would walk an JWW course! I planned to arrive like 1 1/2 early (I have no idea why I wanted to get there THAT early) and it was a good thing I did! They were 1/2 way done with open standard and novice standard was right afterwards. Luckily there was no epic crate scouting that needed to be done, like at Dream Park where you have to be willing to crate in 10cm of space, so there was still plenty of time to walk Trixie and Scooter. Both of the novice courses were really easy and Trixie Q'ed with a 100 and 1st place in both of them getting her first NA and NAJ Q's. Waiting to run was pretty painful though and this trial definitely reminded me how much I love being in excellent where all of the dogs are awesome not just 1 or 2. Sadly we didn't get into the trial for tomorrow, I would've loved to be done with novice after this weekend!, but I'll just have to wait until Sunday. Keeping my fingers crossed for 2 more novice Q's :)
Today was the 1st day of an agility trial in Palmyra - that's 2 1/2 hours away...but it was awesome! I was glad I didn't enter Scooter because the building was pretty echoey when we first got there. It was nice to walk her around and help build her confidence which actually didn't seem to need any building! She would jog with me and run over the practice jump without much encouragement, 1000% better than this time last year when she would walk an JWW course! I planned to arrive like 1 1/2 early (I have no idea why I wanted to get there THAT early) and it was a good thing I did! They were 1/2 way done with open standard and novice standard was right afterwards. Luckily there was no epic crate scouting that needed to be done, like at Dream Park where you have to be willing to crate in 10cm of space, so there was still plenty of time to walk Trixie and Scooter. Both of the novice courses were really easy and Trixie Q'ed with a 100 and 1st place in both of them getting her first NA and NAJ Q's. Waiting to run was pretty painful though and this trial definitely reminded me how much I love being in excellent where all of the dogs are awesome not just 1 or 2. Sadly we didn't get into the trial for tomorrow, I would've loved to be done with novice after this weekend!, but I'll just have to wait until Sunday. Keeping my fingers crossed for 2 more novice Q's :)
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