If you asked Jessie what he did this weekend, he'd tell you he swam in a pond, TWICE! There were lots of border collies, labs, and goldens all jumping into the pond and retrieving things. Jessie was the retrieve police. He would jump into the pond after them then announce, loudly, their doings until they had retrieved the bumper and gotten it out of the pond. Nothing else of interest happened all weekend. Just THE POND.
The human in the picture (me) actually felt we had a very successful weekend of running agility. On Saturday we missed a contact in Novice Standard Agility, but besides that had a nice, clean round. Then we got an 86 (two refusals plus 4 time faults) to get a 2nd place and our first JWW leg. Considering the temperatures had jumped from the 70s to 94 in a day, I was pretty impressed with how Jessie did.
On Sunday we had a very funny run in Standard. Determined not to miss the contact again, I had Jessie creep down the A-Frame slowly. But he kinda got mentally stuck at one point and I though he'd just stand there forever. Eventually he got moving again and had a beautiful run, except he knocked down a bar. I was very happy. Then in the heat of day, high noon again and in 90s, we ran Jumpers With Weaves. It was very fun. He ran exactly the way I had pictured it in mind when I walked the course, which I thought was very fun. So we got a perfect score and under time and 1st place. Very fun indeed, despite the muddy pond that his now covering my kerry, lol.
The setting for the Ruff Riders Cato, NY agility trial was very nice. It was on a little farm and the Novice ring was completely inclosed so those young dogs that got the sillies and raced around were safe. The courses designed by Jennifer McGrane (the judge) were lots of fun, in my opinion, but I don't know too much about agility.
It was just a very fun weekend and a nice break from my attempts at UDX legs. I am looking forward to trying again at the SOTC trial.
Posted by enoj
at 4:11 PM EDT
