Agility weekend 22-23/9/2013 (Eden Hill Cup)

Finally after MANY frustrating weekends, the Princess decided she might actually stay on a few courses. For the last month and a half she has been doing lots of heeling - to try and build up her concentration; and as much "other dog" distraction work as I could find. Seems this work is starting to pay off, as she only left the ring once out of 7 starts for the weekend, and this one time only after a nasty incident with an A-frame. Happy days!!!!

This weekend was a grand fun time, with a great atmosphere. Sen completed her AAD title with a win (OH YEEEES! ground speed 4.18 m/s super duper!!!) and also got a teams pass! (3rd place, even I can hardly believe that one - thanks super team mates Courtney and Missy). We got some bling as it was a special blinged up championship competition weekend:

 

There are of course still issues of the off-course variety, but otherwise we are doing some nice work:



Bigi (alas) was a non-starter because of lameness. Enter substitute dog Sheeza! It was fun to get a chance to run someone else's dog (even if she has no concept of contacts - with this she would be perfect!). It was especially good that she was a larger dog than I am used to - good opportunity to learn more of this complex game. I managed to mess up almost all of her runs (mostly with just contact faults), but we nailed one run with an Open Agility win!

 

Sheeza is a lovely lady, and I hope I will have the pleasure of her company again sometime. Here she is with her mum (not spoilt or anything, just feeling a bit queezy here):