Next weekend I am headed to Indianapolis for some USDAA agility. I am psyched. We are leaving Friday night and staying in a hotel. Mom and Dad are not early birds so a hotel is a safe way to go. If we missed any of our runs, I would probably cry!
Two weeks ago, I did some Dock Dogs at the Chicagoland Outdoors Show. It was great fun, but I came down with cold tail and I couldn’t participate in the finals. I LOVED Speed Retrieve. Mom just pointed at this duck and I knew the rest. I finished first in the top 8, and I should have won, but I wasn’t able to play in the final round due to my tail. I am going to give it another shot soon… I want to improve on my current best time of 6.30 seconds! I also grabbed 6′8″ and jumped in the 21′ range for most of the weekend. Not bad for indoors! I’ve been a couch potato all winter so mom is really happy with how I did.
I still love agility more though. On February 16, I am going to visit Preacher’s mom for some special agility lessons. Two whole hours worth of agilities!! I cannot think of a better way to spend a Saturday, personally. And of course, I’m still in Sherry’s class and it is the greatest. Every Tuesday I watch out the window for dad to come home and I’m ready to go, my bag packed with a toy, some treats, and my leash. Once we get close to Sherry’s place, I start to scream a little bit. I can’t help it! Sherry said I am doing really good. She also said Remi looks good. I have to make sure I don’t let him catch up to me. :)
I will have to write again after my USDAA trial. We are going to begin doing a lot more USDAA now, after what happened in NADAC last month. I had one of the nicest runs of my weave pole career and the judge disqualified me for being “unsafe”. Sad, I really do love some things about NADAC (lots of running fast, and tunnelers!) but I was sad to be penalized for something I worked really hard on.
Here is the video of my unsafe run:
And finally, a sad photo- is this my last tunnelers run? :(
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What does the “unsafe” mean exactly?
I wish I knew. Grant talked to the judge and he said that Alex ‘plows’ instead of weaving. I have photos of him, he is very much weaving and his shoulders move side-to-side. To make matters worse this judge had been NQ’ing Alex all weekend long for his weaves and we didn’t find out until the last run of the weekend. Disappointing, because if this judge was truly concerned for his safety, you think he’d have mentioned it sooner.
I’m new to agility, but I don’t see how Alex was being “unsafe”. I think the problem was with the judge being “unfair”! BTW, I love your header photo of flying Alex!