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Not a good day for us. I really, really wanted the standard Q. It was a tough course, we made it almost all the way through. The closing went -- tunnel, a-frame. jump. I put Hannah in the tunnel, then went to where I wanted to be to get her up the aframe, and bam! she came right back out of the tunnel. Crap ( Read more... )

long, long day. And I didn't even get there until noon. I looked at the run order and thought that I would have my first run at three. Then my brain said I better get there early just in case, so I thought I would plan to arrive around 1:00. Then I forgot about why I planed to arrive at 1:00, and thought if I was running at 1:00 I should get ( Read more... )

I had a feeling that my pairs relay partner was going for a special Q, but I really didn't want to know ( Read more... )

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We did it! Finally got another QQ ( Read more... )

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So. Another day of AKC. Same time, same place. Same schedule. Start right off with JWW. 16 inch dogs running first. I heard the judge was bragging at the dinner the night before that he was going to get us with this course. And boy howdy, he did. Hannah and I crashed and burned for the first 5 jumps. Off course, knocked bar, etc., etc. ( Read more... )

There was a mid-week UKI trial at Argus. I had meant to enter, but somehow it slipped by. I got an email Monday morning saying they were taking *day of* entries. I couldn't do it on Tuesday, had anoter commitment, but I headed out there after work yesterday ( Read more... )

I rarely enter two days of an AKC trial, but I did for the poodle trial because it is usually a good one ( Read more... )