No training Saturday due to the more or less continuous rain during the week, so just a leisurely walk for Jet and Chip!
Sunday was the Northern Agility Winter Series (NAWS), Jet hasn’t competed there since she was 18months old. We were mainly there for two of the beginner dogs that me, Emma and Leanne take at A4P; my Mum’s Chip and Puzzle. They have a special class, class A, for dogs that have never competed before and they don’t include the weaves or seesaw, so we thought it would be nice for them. Jet was in class C, which is combined Grade3/4, so although there are a lot less dogs in the class we knew it would still be tough. Agility wasn’t great! The first run her dogwalk was somewhat lacklustre, she did her contact though and I held it for a fair while, her Aframe was fairly nice and her seesaw was ok. We got E’d though, mainly because I’d walked the course wrong and hadn’t worked out exactly what I was going to do! Second attempt was better but still not anything special, she got a refusal as I went to run away from her – my fault! Then she did a lovely seesaw, and I got her faulted again by stroking her on it once she got on her 2o2o – she was so good though!
Next was Nat’s C Jumping. Not terribly difficult, but equally not a full on blast around. First run she was a speedy girl, she did everything lovely but the right turn towards the home straight she went and weaved…I didn’t shout right loud enough! Second time though she was perfect! I really enjoyed running her in that class and to top it off she came 3rd! Less than 0.1s off 2nd, but a fair bit off 1st. She did beat a few grade 4 dogs though, which gives me hope of getting out of grade 3 
Lindsay and Puzzle had a brilliant first show! Their first jumping run saw a bit of an excited Puzzle head off for the tunnel, but second run just a refusal! He topped off the day with a clear round in agility, with held contacts – so I think we now have another agility addict. Leanne filmed his runs, so will post those soon. Can safely say we were all very proud!
Chip was a bit of a maniac….*sigh* He can be sooo good, and he has the most amazing contacts when he wants to. He showed some moments of inspiration in his jumping, but found it was all a bit too much to take in. So a bit more work is needed yet! I think Mum is going to have a go at running Poppy at training and maybe some competitions, to get used to the atmosphere herself and get used to running another dog. This will be when Poppy has fully recovered from her operation of course, but she seems very happy and bouncy so I’m sure she’ll be up for some agility. We’ll see how running her at training goes, if it goes well, I might sign her over to her and Pops can have some fun in Grade 1 with Mum, seeing as she’s never actually competed in G2/G3 or indeed won more than a 6th in G1…bless her!
Edit to add: Puzzle’s first clear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19V8KYUidOs
Jet’s C run looked fab, super smooth and lovely! The course had some tricky traps that your Jetsy made look super easy – plus that weave entry!
So proud of Puzzle and Chip, they both did really fab.