Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Agility Run Throughs

Okay, this post is WAY over due. But, I'm going to post it anyway.

Weeks ago we went to do some agility run throughs at a kennel club that holds trials. The last time we were there was for the trial on 7/16/11. It was a real nice night and not many people there. It's put on really nice with two rings, a jumpers and standard courses set at Excellent level. It is nice to just go and do some agility when there is a nice course set to run on and practice.

Tilda does still need work on the jumping as she was knocking bars. But, it was good to get her on an a-frame for the practice. It was set for the bigger dogs, so it was quite steep for Tilda, but with practice she did her touches; two feet on and two feet off. I don't think there were any fly offs though! 

Maybe those scents she found when we trialed there in July were still out there :) The first time running jumps with weaves that night she got interested in scents. The second time running JWW I ran with a treat in my hand and she ran it pretty good. It was kind of a fun course to run because you could really run on it. In fact I even slipped when running it :)

It would have been fun to have some videos of our runs, but as you can see, I don't have any.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

7/22/11 Agility

Just Tilda did an agility trial on Friday the 22nd; no Buddy and Gracie at this one.

Our first run was Open Jumps with Weaves. It was actually a pretty good run, just not quite good enough for a Q. In the weaves she missed one so I had to take her back and start her over. In the process of getting her to start over she took a wrong jump. Then while running the course she saw some of the family watching and went over to say hi :) She stayed in the ring though! She was also a little bit over time: 54.36 seconds out of 53 seconds.

In Open Standard Tilda did a fly off on the a-frame. I have to work on that; this was the 3rd time she has done a fly off on the a-frame. We then had some problems by some jumps and she knocked the bars on the double. She also didn't go down on the table. I know it doesn't matter since there is no rule about that now, but I still like her to go down. She did sit though. Anyhow, her weaves were beautiful!!!! Time: 65.03 sec out of 69 sec.