{"id":2771,"date":"2017-07-09T19:16:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T23:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2017-07-09T19:16:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T23:16:34","slug":"alaskan-malamute-club-of-america-akc-agility-trial-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=2771","title":{"rendered":"Alaskan Malamute Club of America AKC Agility Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nina was on 19 1\/2 QQ&#8221;s today, but I overhandled a tunnel entrance in Standard and cost us the MACH. Oh well, it could be next weekend, it could be next year, but I am so happy to be here with her and running with her. Michele Fletcher&#8217;s courses were very technical and challenging but fun, you really felt like you&#8217;d accomplished something if you qualified on them! And Bert made his agility debut and did AMAZINGLY well! For a dog with just a few weeks of training (and not daily training either), he was wonderful, brave, focused, willing. What a good boy! He wore Tish&#8217;s pink Brilliant K9 harness all weekend and didn&#8217;t seem to mind, too!<\/p>\n<p>Nina Saturday Jumpers (NQ because she slipped in the weaves, tried to keep going but had already slipped out. I had no idea how I was going to handle the opening, and then I did a blind cross which was not ANY of the different ways I walked it, worked nicely though!):<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7gBa5Ock1XE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Zhora Saturday Jumpers (NQ thanks to handler error that sent her to an off course):<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U3w4GLfJSjo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nina Saturday Standard (NQ):<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/64m8kLMy_TA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Zhora Saturday Standard (Q, second place, 29 points, really tough weave entry and she drove ahead and nailed it!):<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qLEBwQ8nhSk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bert Saturday Novice Standard (NQ, but what a great very first run, I was telling him all the way around what a good boy he was and what a great job he was doing, you can see on the table when I tell him how awesome he is and his tail starts wagging faster, what a sweetie):<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nxqJX-u5f3Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bert Saturday Novice Jumpers (NQ, but very nearly a Q! And he&#8217;s so focused on getting going at the start that he doesn&#8217;t want to sit):<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cQVxc84i568\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nina Sunday Jumpers (Q, fourth place, 20 points, the first four dogs were within a second of each other, the handling error that caused the near-refusal cost us time, this was a tough course!):<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DRLt2Vr3xqA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Zhora Sunday Jumpers (QQ # 54, 18 points):<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JIUl2cDNKhA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nina Sunday Standard (not MACH&#8230;.you can hear me call to videographer Zap &#8220;Did we Q?&#8221; at the end, after we destroy the course, the line after the non-wing jump after the aframe ate a number of teams alive, that&#8230;wasn&#8217;t where we had a problem, I called her even though she was headed to the right end of the tunnel after the dogwalk and earned a refusal):<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BCbPhf-m16k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Zhora Sunday Standard (QQ #54, third place, 29 points):<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qoHH8HxC4Qc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nina was on 19 1\/2 QQ&#8221;s today, but I overhandled a tunnel entrance in Standard and cost us the MACH. Oh well, it could be next weekend, it could be next year, but I am so happy to be here with her and running with her. Michele Fletcher&#8217;s courses were very technical and challenging but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,43,53,48,54,62,67,63,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2771","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-vallhunds","category-zhora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771","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=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2772,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions\/2772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}