Sunday, June 24, 2012

Hannah CD

Hannah has got her CD title. She is now a Companion Dog after passing her third trial yesterday. We were all watching as she went through her paces, the pic shows her on the way back to Kathy with  the dumbbell during the last of the individual exercises, Retrieve a Dumbbell.
The stays had us all in a panic when the dog next to her started digging a hole and eating the dirt. The hole was very close to Hannah and she got up to see what the dog was eating. The judge decided it was too much to expect a novice dog to ignore such a distraction and gave her a re-run which she passed.
Quiet day today, KnK were judging so we just had a day out with Freki and Scout and a run round the grounds at the end of the trial.

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Masters Pass

Tiffany has passed her first Masters Agility trial. The pic shows her doing the last jump, breaking the  beam and stopping the clock inside the time limit. Only 6 more passes to a title!
Overall, it has not been a good week end. Yesterday we had 7 fails between us, Tiffany missed on two agility and two jumping Masters courses and a CDX trial because she did not drop quick enough on the Drop on Recall, and I failed my CD trial when I forgot what I was doing in the sit stay, then failed my first novice jumping trial when I knocked a bar off and then missed a jump after a tunnel. Keith said I did well but was unlucky. Kathy was disappointed, and even more when I failed again in CD today. Tiffany failed the Jumping Masters course today and her CDX trial, so we had 1 pass and 10 fails between us, but that pass was the pass that defined Tiffany as a Masters Level dog at last.