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here are pics of courses from this weekend

I didn’t do video ; I took camcorder but never go it into building to be used. This was Fruitland show — indoors on sprintturf.

I ended up with 12″ / 24″ EX conflicts all weekend between the 2 rings…. and trying to run between two rings and I think that is why the camcorder just got Too hard. The judges wouldn’t let dogs run outside of their jump heights and that is a hard one since 24″ class was small - and 12″ wasn’t too big either.

I personally don’t understand why they were this way since its not my interpretation of the guidelines, but we have to do has they say. I basically decided to try to move up one dog to run at first of height and then hope the other ring walk-thru was after. I managed but not sure I was 100% On second run in the tight timeframes. Sun, for example, I move louie to be dog #4 in JWW. As we cross finish line, 24″ dogs were walking in std. I was lucky, got the walk and about 15 min total between running louie and then running Fusion. As bad as I thought I had the 12″ Dogs in Open Std and Ex A JWW were literally running from one ring to the other. Like scoop dog up and run to other ring. I heard it was like 5 dogs that had that issue. Sigh.

The low-down on the weekend
Fri: challenging courses! Fast was impossible for me and my dogs.

Louie — NQ, NQ Q. 1 for 3. The JWW wasn’t easy but I figured out how to get it done. Silly dog just HAD to stop and bark and the screaming kids behind the wall …. and he did it a second time at a jump.

Fusion — NQ NQ and Q! Fusion finished up MXJ with a Second Place. For Fast, Fusion went into handler focus after I ask for 2O/2O on frame. In Std, it was a lovely run but I pulled her Dogwalk Contact with a pretty severe lateral move to do a front cross. She also had A wrong course after Aframe/Stopping and holding contact. I wasn’t rotated correctly.

Sat
Louie: Triple NQ.
Fusion Triple NQ. JWW course was a runner’s course. It could be handled from behind but you still had to run. Folks either nailed it or it was total diaster. Diaster for me. Std, I had a lovely run with Fusion; a call off got her booking to me and between her speed and my front cross she bailed off side of teeter.

Sun.
Louie: NQ Fast again. QQ finally! Double Q Lou!
Fusion: NQ Fast Again. NQ in Std when she run past table plane and come up on back of table. Sigh. Training issue. NQ JWW next to last bar dropped; she was looking for me; uncertain where to go next and bar went down. That was her only dropped bar all weekend… YEAH!

I am seriously questioning if I will continue showing in FAST. I have the XF on both dogs. Is it worth the $$$ for the MXF? That $26 per day for 2 dogs is gas money or lunch money…. My teamwork with Fusion was much better and I am very proud of that.

These are some good links I came across — ways to combat the perils of like

this is a must read for me going forward: http://www.positivityblog.com/

I mentioned I am using Joe’s Goals. Here is write up on ways to use it. I find this is great (and free) tool that you can use with Mental Management Systems. You can use the log capabilities for the daily affimration and check each time you read it.. etc.
http://blog.lodewijkvdb.com/2008/04/track-your-goals-and-habits-with-joes-go als.html

She seems so slow but I know she’s thinking… speed will come better when shes knows it better
And BOY oh Boy aren’t I super chatty today……

and she definitely wants to do teeter so that is progress

uploaded the courses from NC (Tarheel ones) to Carol’s Agility Courses (see link on right)

Some “tricky” lines but I enjoyed dogs running the courses