Tilda qualified for the first time in novice A standard agility! She also got first place! Her time was 57.06 seconds and a score of 90.
In novice A jumps with weaves Tilda had a perfect run, but she knocked the bars on the double bar jump :( Besides her knocking the bars it was perfect. She did everything I told her to do and didn't take anything she wasn't supposed to. It was a really good run!
In novice B jumps with weaves Buddy did not qualify :( He only needs one more Q in novice jumps with weaves.
In open standard Buddy also did not qualify :( He still has not got a Q in open. Maybe his next trial he will Q.
woohoo!! So glad she did well! She's got a great trainer!
ReplyDeleteHi Allison, I ran across your blog while viewing Julie's site. I also have a female from Julie. We are out of commission due to cancer treatment but we trial in agility as well. My Aussie is 3 and my site can be seen from Julie's page for "show dogs" just as I did with accessing your blog.I am a few entries up. My aussie's name is Teddi for Temora's Theodora Rose and she was just championed in conformation. My true love is agility, so it would be nice to keep in touch. I am going to guess that her Q was at Menomonee Falls this weekend. If so I had a girl friend there running my cream cairn Fox. Fox was and is a puppy mill dog which is what got me obsessive about good, responsible breeding. So with Julie's help, I bred Teddi last winter but I want to get back to agility ASAP. We will try having girl friend< Nancy> to handle her too. But she is my baby, may not run for Nancy and may have to wait for me. Fox's puppy mill knees are why he does 4" preferred. He had been done withe regular 8" through Open.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, Tilda was awesome. I would never believe it was her first Q. I watched both video's. She is an excellent agility dog, just keep working. The early jumping can be minor if you get after it now before a habit forms. The exercises you are using are the same ones handlers have used for me to train Teddi, who does the exact same thing. It has to do with the fact that the breed is fast and likes to move fast so since I presume Tilda is young (2?) and is being anxious to get going, she rushes the jump. This is a maturity thing that she will also grow out of as you do your exercises. Do these exercises every day for many months! Even if you think she's got it,keep doing the exercises to really avoid those habits, based on the breed's natural tendency. Teddi's is a habit stage, so we have lots of grueling work when we get back and I am trying to avoid this for you. The dogs get pretty bored and hard to work through the repetition. I'm hoping you can avoid this as you are already embarking to, as I see from the videos. Her jumping was for the most part--right on. Keep this up to avoid my headaches. You can see Ted's early jumping which is much more pronounced by looking at her film of her first Q at the bottom of my website page called Agility Spotlight. It is the Pt.2 video.
I am convinced that this jumping style is a breed thing (I've seen it before)which must be trained out just as you are doing. The other breed based habit is bailing over contacts. This is the same thing-the breed wants to get going so skips the contact. This is actually even a bigger problem for Teddi than the early jumping!!
Basically, the runs were wonderful. She represented her breed and her team exquisitely. I am proud she is an Aussie!!. You are a very cohesive team and will go far. Congrats on your Q. There will be many more to follow!! Leslie
Hi Allison, I ran across your blog while viewing Julie's site. I also have a female from Julie. We are out of commission due to cancer treatment but we trial in agility as well. My Aussie is 3 and my site can be seen from Julie's page for "show dogs" just as I did with accessing your blog.I am a few entries up. My aussie's name is Teddi for Temora's Theodora Rose and she was just championed in conformation. My true love is agility, so it would be nice to keep in touch. I am going to guess that her Q was at Menomonee Falls this weekend. If so I had a girl friend there running my cream cairn Fox. Fox was and is a puppy mill dog which is what got me obsessive about good, responsible breeding. So with Julie's help, I bred Teddi last winter but I want to get back to agility ASAP. We will try having girl friend< Nancy> to handle her too. But she is my baby, may not run for Nancy and may have to wait for me. Fox's puppy mill knees are why he does 4" preferred. He had been done withe regular 8" through Open.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, Tilda was awesome. I would never believe it was her first Q. I watched both video's. She is an excellent agility dog, just keep working. The early jumping can be minor if you get after it now before a habit forms. The exercises you are using are the same ones handlers have used for me to train Teddi, who does the exact same thing. It has to do with the fact that the breed is fast and likes to move fast so since I presume Tilda is young (2?) and is being anxious to get going, she rushes the jump. This is a maturity thing that she will also grow out of as you do your exercises. Do these exercises every day for many months! Even if you think she's got it,keep doing the exercises to really avoid those habits, based on the breed's natural tendency. Teddi's is a habit stage, so we have lots of grueling work when we get back and I am trying to avoid this for you. The dogs get pretty bored and hard to work through the repetition. I'm hoping you can avoid this as you are already embarking to, as I see from the videos. Her jumping was for the most part--right on. Keep this up to avoid my headaches. You can see Ted's early jumping which is much more pronounced by looking at her film of her first Q at the bottom of my website page called Agility Spotlight. It is the Pt.2 video.
I am convinced that this jumping style is a breed thing (I've seen it before)which must be trained out just as you are doing. The other breed based habit is bailing over contacts. This is the same thing-the breed wants to get going so skips the contact. This is actually even a bigger problem for Teddi than the early jumping!!
Basically, the runs were wonderful. She represented her breed and her team exquisitely. I am proud she is an Aussie!!. You are a very cohesive team and will go far. Congrats on your Q. There will be many more to follow!! Leslie