National Shiba Club of America AKC Agility Trial
OMG I might just have a new favorite judge! Pam Johnson designed courses that Nina would have designed if Pam hadn’t done it first (and if Nina could use Clean Run Course Designer…), flowy, fast, RLH (that’s Run Like Hell), no need for pesky deceleration, just speed. They were LOVELY courses, with one single exception, the opening of yesterday’s Standard course, which gave most of us fits because of handler errors that were all too easy to make. Nina was SO CLOSE to a double, knocking the LAST POSSIBLE BAR today, which was at least partly my fault, since I didn’t decelerate where I had told myself to.
Nina was a Standard specialist last weekend, and a Jumpers specialist this weekend. She is running beautifully, faster than she ever has, got all her contacts, just JOFT (that’s Just One Little Thing, where “little” is now replaced with an f bomb….). She just needs TWO doubles to qualify for Nationals….just two….
Zhora was a rock star, earning two Time 2 Beat Q’s and double Q # 28 today plus a Jumpers from yesterday.
There were very few 8″ dogs, so I only had a few between them, so I was puffing!
I decided to post the good, the bad and the ugly this time.
Nina Saturday Jumpers (Q, first place, 21 points, 5.532 YPS):
Zhora Saturday Jumpers (Q, second place, 17 points, 4.893 YPS):
Zhora Saturday Time 2 Beat (Q, second place, 9 points):
Nina Saturday Standard (wow…I just did not handle that tunnel/aframe properly at all, needed to pull way over to show her the line):
Zhora Saturday Standard (aaaaand then I did exactly the same thing with Zhora….):
Nina Sunday Jumpers (Q, first place, 21 points again, 5.261 YPS):
Zhora Sunday Jumpers (Part 1 of QQ #28, Q, second place, 17 points again, how weird is that, they both got exactly the same points yesterday and today! 4.671 YPS):
Zhora Sunday Time 2 Beat (Q, first place, 10 points):
Nina Sunday Standard (ONE FREAKING BAR!):
Zhora Sunday Standard (Part 2 of QQ #28, first place, 25 points, 3.627 YPS, I did NOT like this dogwalk entry, and I did not handle it as carefully as I could have, so she slipped and I had a bit of an EEK moment):