{"id":2372,"date":"2015-01-11T16:21:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T21:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=2372"},"modified":"2015-01-11T16:21:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T21:21:30","slug":"border-collie-society-of-america-akc-agility-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=2372","title":{"rendered":"Border Collie Society of America AKC Agility Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to weather and the NYS Thruway being closed because of it, we only made it to Edinboro for one day of this weekend&#8217;s trial, leaving at 5 AM today. Well, it was worth the drive! Zhora earned her first AX (Excellent Standard) leg with a great run where she saved her weave poles after a wonky entry because she was headed to another piece of equipment, she ALMOST got her first MXJ (Master Jumpers) leg, but knocked a bar after looking to see what some spectators were doing. Nina tried to give me a heart attack by doing the dogwalk on three legs (I HATE dogwalk entries that are a hard turn like this was, I think it&#8217;s very unsafe), and was so insane about being back to agility after a month off that she knocked FOUR BARS in Jumpers. She redeemed herself somewhat by winning Time 2 Beat, but wow&#8230;she scared me in Standard! Judge Barbara Bounds was very nice, and came up to me to ask if I knew Krista Hill who also has Vallhunds!<\/p>\n<p>Zhora Master Jumpers (NQ but a very nice run):<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rwxsHhCdJjE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nina Time 2 Beat (Q and 10 points for winning the class, you can see how wired she was!):<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TtIQOQid-QU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nina Master Standard (heart attack-inducing dogwalk, I should have pushed more to the wall and then turned):<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IClXikTN5fo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Zhora Excellent Standard (AX leg #1!):<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6mkMqhIEAgw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to weather and the NYS Thruway being closed because of it, we only made it to Edinboro for one day of this weekend&#8217;s trial, leaving at 5 AM today. Well, it was worth the drive! Zhora earned her first AX (Excellent Standard) leg with a great run where she saved her weave poles after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,43,53,48,54,62,67,51,63,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-litter","category-agility","category-awesome","category-breeding","category-dog-training","category-dogs","category-nina","category-puppies-dogs","category-vallhunds","category-zhora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372","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=2372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2373,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions\/2373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}