Hannah Passes in Novice

Hannah has her second pass in Agility Novice after a great run at the Gawler trials. There were a couple of moments when things did not look too good, like the way she clung to the Table with her toe nails to prevent her slipping off because she hit it a bit too quickly, but she made it and even got third place overall. The pic shows Hannah doing her warm up exercises before the run. Her Jumping Excellent class was good too, just two faults on a very difficult course. The faults were on the easy bits so she did do the serpentine and the 200 degree turn into a blind tunnel, but there was just those two little drops in concentration that cost the trial. I was in masters, but I was not feeling all that well, and was ill last night. I hope I am fully recovered for next week end in Wanrnambool.

Mount Gambier Trials

We were trialing again last week end, at Mount Gambier, where the world famous Blue Lake is. The pic shows Hannah clearing the last jump in her Jumping Excellent trial. She did very well, until she went to see the judge and lost the plot after that. In her Agility trial, a magpie flew right across her nose as she was approaching the dog walk and that was the end of that trial too. I did not do much better. I got a fault free round in Jumping Masters, but we lost time because Keith got in the wrong position for a Threadle, so we lost a few seconds there which meant we were over the time limit. In the Agility I went sniffing and dropped a bar too so we did not qualify again.
We left the caravan at Mount Gambier because we will be going back in two weeks on the way to Warnambool for more trials.

Tollers RN

We have another title to add to our list of accomplishments  We are now Rally Novice dogs, with the letters RN added to our names. Keith said we could get a job at the local hospital, but Maggie's mum (a Registered Nurse) said our RN was not the same as her RN.
It was an exciting day. Kathy was judging so Keith took both of us in. Tiffany went first and did well, covering for Keith when he did a Weave instead of a Serpentine. He called a Retry, and got away with losing 3 points, but still passed on 91. Then it was my turn. I usually work with Kathy, and play with Keith. It was very strange having Keith give the commands, especially as Kathy had disappeared somewhere. Anyway, I did my best trying to work out what he meant with his funny ways, and we got through with 87. I much prefer to work with Kathy.