Fri. night was another TDAA serial trial night. We played Black Hole where you have to keep your dog out of the tunnels. Gidget almost went into the tunnel in her favorite spot, under the A-frame, but I called her off it for a successful Q. Our Standard run was going perfectly until a fly made an appearance on the A-frame. I lost Gidget's brain to the fly for a moment (she hates bugs!) but got her back and finished the course clean. We're slowly trucking our way along towards her TACh. Once we get that I think we'll stop doing teacup, she just doesn't like it as much as regular agility. If she seemed to really hate it I'd stop sooner, but I don't think she minds playing with me too much.
Sat. was Gracie's turn. There was a combined CDSP (obedience) and WCRL (rally) trial both Sat. and Sun. Gracie took a turn at each and did really well! Obedience was up first. She was awesome! I had her attention almost all the way through the heeling pattern. She only lost 1.5 points on each of the on leash heeling and the off leash figure 8, a huge improvement for her! She's still struggling with the stand for exam, lost 2 points there for moving her feet. Then her recall over the jump and the stay were perfect! So she got a 195 for third place, the best she's done so far!
Next was rally. Her good attitude dropped a little bit, probably due to the longish wait between runs, but she was still a solid partner as usual. She got 207 points out of 210 and first place. I didn't see her score sheet to know exactly where she lost points but I have a good idea what happened. First, at the send to the jump, I had to step in a bit to make sure she took the jump. Then, I went to reward her after a stand and she sat down. Oops! Bad handler! Last, she had a crooked front at the angled recall. Nothing huge, and only 3 points, no biggy, just stuff to work on. We don't practice a left 180 degree pivot very often and we struggled with it while warming up, but in her run she did it perfectly! She's such a good girl!
With those runs Gracie earned both her CD-C and her RL2!
Gidget took her turn in the obedience ring on Sun. I felt her attitude was just a little off, but who could blame her after the busy weekend we were having. She too was solid anyways. She lost half a point each for wide about turns and a half point for a bit of lagging on the figure 8, and that's it! She got her highest score yet of 198.5 and second place! I even have video of this one (thanks Laura!):
So the girls had an amazing weekend of trials. They are just the best pups ever!
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To end the weekend I took both girls and the guinea pig to an open audition for Animal Talent Pool. They all had to stand and sit on a table while getting their pictures taken. Gidget did not think this was very fun, but she did her best. Hans actually did the best of all three, he happily sat there eating bits of carrot. Gracie held her own, a little worried for sure, but she likes having her picture taken a lot more than Gidget does (probably thanks to her foster mom). She got to show off some tricks too. So now to wait for them to become famous!
That's all for now. More agility next weekend, then the rest of Aug. will be quiet. Happy training!
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