This weekend was consumed by another agility trial, this time in Merrilville, IN with the “Paw Power Blues” agility club. The venue is nice (our second year trialing there) if not a little small. The courses were a little tight on Saturday but opened up a bit on Sunday.
Jumpers on Saturday was a very tight course with a couple of non-obvious off-courses. There was an off-course tunnel that at least half of the dogs took (including Alex) – I don’t think I could have sent him to it if I tried, oh well – no “Q” for jumpers.
The best news of the weekend was Alex’s standard run on Saturday which earned him his “OA” title, next stop Excellent A standard! The run did include an off course (one of which is allowed) and I believe a refusal at the table, but in open you can have one of each, so we eeked by with a “Q”.
Sunday brought Alex’s first ever “Excellent” standard run, which was not a “Q” but was a great run aside from a poor rear cross by me (which caused a bar to fall) and Alex’s knocking of the triple… we need to practice those more!
Sunday was also another shot at an open jumpers leg and another dropped bar at the triple (my “hey!” resulted in an off course tunnel as well… hey where better to hide from pops than in a damn tunnel!)
We stayed in Merrilville’s luxurious Red Roof Inn (they left the light on!) next to a nice, muddy pond which our room of course backed up to. The pond was useful for a swim for all three of the dogs and quite a few of their friends on Saturday night. Remi continued his passion of rescuing sticks whose life is being threatened by the evil water, Abby of course took her ball to anyone with a halfway decent throwing arm over and over and over and over again and Alex spent his time trying to intercept Abby’s fetches.
All in all it was a great weekend, we all had fun, Whit and Abby were more successful than us and and 1 for 4 sure beats another ohfer!
Until next time, here’s a compilation video of our runs that Whit put together…
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