Week end of work.

We had a busy week-end last week. Saturday we were at the Agility trials at SDK&ODC then Sunday was the Gawler Rally trials. The pic shows me coming out of the Offset Figure 8 station on my way to a third place in the Rally Advance B class.I got two qualifications towards my RAE title, 3 more to go, just not many trials that I can go in before November.
The Agility trials went very well, except for a big mix up at the start. I wanted to do the dog walk but Keith insisted on a bar, so we did neither. Apart from that we had a good round. Hannah was clear but over time. Jumping went a bit haywire too, so we ended the day with no passes but we had a good time.

Masters Pass No.5

Here it is. The instant I got my fifth pass in Masters Agility! It was a close thing. We were at the Para Districts trial on Saturday, we had only the morning session for a pass because Keith was judging in the afternoon. I was going very well with Keith calling the jumps and I was nailing every one of them, until Dopey Dad sent me to the wrong entrance of the tunnel. Panic stricken calls let me know what was going on, so I cut back to the other end and then into the correct entry to the tunnel. Judge Noeline and half the crowd were in fits laughing at Keith trying to get back into position for the rest of the course, but we did it with a couple of seconds to spare.
Hannah had a good run in  her Agility Masters, with only a couple of errors, but we both messed up in Jumping.
In the Afternoon Trials, with Kathy handling us, we had a bit of a disaster when both of us went up the dog walk instead of a bar, so we were disqualified. In the Jumping I ran with Mel and we almost made it with a mis-communication near the end which cost us about 3 seconds and we finished up one and a bit seconds over time but clear. Hannah also got a clear round but with time faults.

Busy Weekend.

What a week-end we have had. We were exhausted after doing the mock trials and then the games trials on the week-end. Look at us in the photo, we were still sleeping it off the next day.
On Friday we went to the mock trials where new judges were practicing their skills so we had lots of runs in Masters and Open classes, and we did well too. Hannah got her first Masters pass, but it did not count as it was not a real trial. The next day we were in the Games trials. Hannah got a Gamblers Excellent and a Snooker Excellent pass and I got a Gamblers Excellent pass. Keith was judging and so I got Uncle Murphy's mum Mel to  be the human in the team. We had a mix up in the Snooker at one jump and that cost us the trial. In the afternoon we were a bit over time in the Pairs event, and I dropped the last bar in the gamblers and the first bar in the Snooker closing sequence so no prizes for me. When Hannah popped out of the weaving poles in Snooker, and missed the tunnel in Gamblers that sealed our fate for the PM trial.
Had a lot of fun,barked at a lot of friends and cadged some treats from their humans, so it was not a bad week-end after all.

Easter Trials

Look at me in the pic, I am higher than Keith's head as I go over the top of the Scramble. Yesterday we were at the fundraising trial for the National Trials to be held here in SA in 2016. I had three good runs (but no passes) and one not so good, while Hannah had four good runs, including a pass in Agility Excellent, (she was too late to upgrade to Masters after gaining her ADX last week.)
We had four runs in the morning, but none in the afternoon because Keith was judging.
We have a day off today, just taking things easy, having our Easter Chews and recovering from the excitement of yesterday.

Hannah ADX

Hannah got her Agility Dog Excellent Title (ADX) yesterday with a First Place too! She had two first place and two second place awards in her five passes needed for her title and she had one of her passes in Queensland. The pic shows Hannah with her 5 Qualifying Cards.
We were at the SAODC double trial. In the morning run Hannah messed up by going in the tunnel  instead of up the dog walk, but she got everything right in the afternoon. I was in the Open class and popped out of the weaving poles a bit early but did the rest very well, then in the jumping Open I went in the weaving poles instead of the distance section so I was an NQ in both. Keith was judging in the afternoon, so I did not have a run.

Hannah RAE

Hannah is now a Rally Advanced Excellent dog (RAE) which means she has passed Rally Advanced and Rally Excellent 10 times at the same trial. She got her title today at the SA State Titles, with a 3rd place in Excellent B too. It was a busy weekend with both of us competing in Rally on 2 days, and KNK judging on alternate days. It was quite warm in the sun and I was not too interested in working, I did pass one trial each day, but not both classes so Keith is a bit disappointed. Hannah made it through both Advanced and Excellent on both days, and that was enough to get her the highest title in Rally, and we think she is the first Toller to get the RAE in SA. The pic shows her rushing back to our crate to get her Chicken reward, dragging Kathy behind her.

Noarlunga Trials

Here is a photo of me leaping through the Hoop at the Noarlunga City Trial yesterday. I could only run in the morning because Keith was judging in the afternoon. I missed a weaving pole in Agility so there was no qualification there, and in the jumping I went the wrong side of a jump and got a DQ. Hannah did not do much better in her runs, but our half sister Maggie passed in jumping and agility with two first places and a title.