{"id":1162,"date":"2011-04-12T06:47:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T13:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2011-04-12T06:47:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T13:47:12","slug":"more-nina-agility-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=1162","title":{"rendered":"More Nina Agility Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three Nina videos courtesy of Jen here<\/a> from last weekend’s CPE<\/a> agility at Boom Towne<\/a> outside Rochester. Jen is one of those people who is just so plain-old down-to-the-bone nice<\/em>. Thanks again Jen!<\/p>\n

Anyway…there is embarrassment contained herein:<\/p>\n

The first video is our Saturday Standard run (we are in Level 4 Standard, Level 5 everything else), in which I break my own newly-established rule (and for which I am still kicking myself). Right or wrong, I have decided that I will not even ask for a stay at the start if I do not think I can get one (I will do a “drop and run” where I carry her in and put her down and we start), and if I ask for one, I have to take her off if she doesn’t stay. Well…she obviously doesn’t stay, I obviously asked her to (although I got a very nice sit!), and I obviously let her run anyway. I am teaching her NOT to stay by being 100% unclear about what “stay” means.\u00c2\u00a0 Bad Amanda, not fair to Nina, not fair to me either since I’m making it that much harder to actually get the behavior at a trial. Also, it clearly shows that we get all out of whack when we have a crazy start like that, it got her all caffeinated and she goes careening off shrieking like a banshee and misses the next obstacle, flies off the teeter, and we obviously did not qualify. Next trial I will drop and run (since it is AKC, and therefore expensive), but next CPE we’re back to taking her off if she doesn’t stay, even if we don’t do a single run all weekend.<\/p>\n

The second video was Sunday’s Jackpot. The tapes marked an area you had to stay out of while the dog did the obstacle within the tape. This was a “nontraditional gamble”, and judge Pat called this a “Magic Easter Basket” Jackpot, the taped off obstacles acted as doublers for the obstacle your dog performed after the Magic one. We qualified in this run although I didn’t handle it the way I might have liked.<\/p>\n

The third run was our Sunday Full House run (you need three “singles” (one-bar jumps), two “circles” (tunnels and tire) and one “Joker” (contacts, weaves and double jump in this case)). We scored 42 points in this run, it was a pretty nice run, we were working well together.<\/p>\n

We also had a great Snooker run, where we were in pretty close contention for the “51 trophy” (judge Pat gives trophies to teams who get a score of 51 in Snooker, which is the highest score you can get). We had a bar down or we very well could have had it. We did qualify anyway, but with a lower score. We love Snooker, it’s a great strategy game and really tests your handling and planning skills, as well as your ability to think on your feet.<\/p>\n

Tish will make her CPE debut at All Dawgs in May. Level 1 CPE is an awesome place to get a new dog some low-stress away-from-home experience – Level 1 has no weaves and no teeter, the courses are simple and straightforward, and the rules are very forgiving. Plus, CPE folks are super-nice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three Nina videos courtesy of Jen here from last weekend’s CPE agility at Boom Towne outside Rochester. Jen is one of those people who is just so plain-old down-to-the-bone nice. Thanks again Jen! Anyway…there is embarrassment contained herein: The first video is our Saturday Standard run (we are in Level 4 Standard, Level 5 everything […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,54,62,67,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agility","category-dog-training","category-dogs","category-nina","category-vallhunds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}