First Agility Title!
We went to our second agility trial this weekend and actually managed to get a title. It was very fun and Jessie was way too excited about the idea of running agility again. The trial was the SOTC indoor trial. We haven't really done indoor agility before, so I was a little nervous, but Jessie didn't seem at all bothered. The rings were set up on indoor soccor fields, with artifical turf, which was very cool. The courses were challenging, but fun.

On Saturday we ran in Novice Jumpers With Weaves and Jessie flew through the course without any errors. Better yet, I managed to direct him with out errors, so we Qd, finished our Novice Jumpers title, and got a 2nd place! I was so happy with him. In standard, later that day, he once again did a great job, staying right with me and got his first Q in that class and a 3rd place.

I desided to be brave on Sunday, and bumped him up to Open Jumpers even though we haven't practice 12 weave poles. I was so proud of him. We did an awesome run. He even did his weaves the 2nd try. The first try he got a little stuck and missed a pole right in the middle, so I just pulled him out and sent him again and he carefully made his way through all 12. We ended up with one refusal and 22 time faults, which meant no Q, but so close!

But by the time we got to standard late that afternoon, Jessie was TOO excited. He barrelled out onto that course like a maniac -- I knew I was in trouble when I was setting him up, he just had that wild look in his eyes. Still, he managed the first half of the course, even hitting his contact on the A-Frame. But then we got to the teeter and he didn't wait for it to hit the ground before he flew off. So at that point I knew I had to reign him in and calm him down. I sent him onto the Dog Walk and told him easy. Then I made him do a couple of "waits" along the down side. That calmed him down and he managed to finish the rest of the course without crashing jumps or anything silly like that.

There were TONS of terriers at the trial, including a Glenn of Imaal that everyone wanted to steal and take home. He was definate favorite and crowd pleaser. He just had a twinkle in his eye and he had the best temperment -- very friendly and self assurred. What a cool dog! My friends, Sue and Kerry, picked up some legs on their boarder terriers as well along with placements. There were also tons of norfolks running in the upper level classes and some really fast JRTs and staffies.