Alex spent the weekend doing his favorite activity and asked me to post about it. We attended the NADAC trial in Crystal Lake for the second Easter in a row and (due to the fact that it was an agility trial) Alex had an absolute blast!
Saturday was pretty productive with an 18.94 second, first place run in Elite tunnelers (earning Alex his TN-E title!) at 7.39 yps and a first place, 28.19 second (including a “re-weave”) run in Open Weavers (earning Alex his WV-O title!). Alex had a few issues with the very low (to him) 20″ jumps that are used in NADAC… knocking bars in his other four runs.
Sunday was lots of fun for Alex! He got to run with mom for the first time in a while. It was his last run of the weekend and he definitely had fun with it! Whitney and Alex pulled in a first place run in Open Touch ‘n’ Go with a 5.79 yps very clean run! It’s worth noting that if Alex was in Elite Touch ‘n’ Go, this time would have still been good for a first place! Alex also got his first “Q” in Elite regular, and therefore his first blue ribbon in that class :-)
As usual, the RACE agility club put on a great event and we all had a good time! I did get a “talking to” about Alex’s weaves for the second NADAC trial in a row. One of the two judges approached me and explained his criteria for judging the “safe performance” of weave poles, stating that Alex’s performance is borderline in his opinion but that the sets of weave poles being used at the trial didn’t allow him to make a complete judgment, in this case we were given the benefit of the doubt. This does make me further question NADAC as an agility venue. We will certainly favor AKC and USDAA agility trials when given the option. I will note that this judge did seem to care that the weave pole performance might be harmful to Alex and did take the time to explain how this can be determined in his and NADAC’s opinion. We have reviewed a lot of Alex’s weave performances and don’t feel that they are unsafe nor that they meet NADAC’s definition of “unsafe”, however as we will likely continue to be faulted for them you probably won’t see Alex performing at as many NADAC trials.
Whitney put together a great compilation of Alex’s runs from this weekend, enjoy…
All in all it was a great way to spend our Easter weekend. As usual, abby and Whitney were very successful and racked up the Q’s, be sure to check in with Abby on her blog!
Alex’s little brother Remi is still recovering from “happy tail”, he did have to have a short section of the end of his tail removed but he is still in rediculously high spirits and can’t wait to get back out dock jumping and doing agility with his big bro’. Remi will turn two next month… he was born on Easter of 2006 and hasn’t stopped hopping since!
Since it’s been a while since Alex’s page has been updated, we missed adding a link to our 15 minutes of fame. Whitney, Alex and I were interviewed for a segment on the Chicago IKC dog show on the CBS news in January… it turned into a very funny segment comparing agility dogs to confirmation dogs, check it out here. You should have seen the back of the reporter’s shirt after filming this!
We’ll update again after our AKC trial this weekend!
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