Western Lakes AKC Day 3
Open Jumpers With Weaves Q #2!!!! We’re 2/3 of the way to her title! It was a spectacular run and of course I didn’t ask anyone to record it for me. A clean run, smooth, just lovely. And this was immediately AFTER a dog broke out of its crate and went tearing around the ring, knocking down the ring gates with everyone yelling “LOOSE DOG!!”. She was perfect, perfect weaves from a tricky entry, NO BARS DOWN. I did two things differently, I played Susan Garrett’s “It’s Yer Choice” game with her beforehand, and I TOOK MY TIME (as Linda is always reminding me to do) – if I get too fast Nina races me, if I am steady and actually handle her, she is fine. What do you know, it works!
I did get our Open Standard run half recorded, it starts right after I rear-cross the weaves (which I do in class all the time, and which I did successfully Friday), it threw her off for some reason and she just wasn’t going to weave (we had already NQ’d by this point). BUT! She got ALL her contacts with NO faults, AND NO BARS DOWN which was huge!