Fran on Friday
Booker and I ran in an agility trial last weekend. It was 3 rings of fun. Lots of very talented dogs and their people. Lots of great runs and some not-so-great runs. We couldn’t complain about the courses. For the most part, everyone seemed to enjoy them. (Except for one jumpers course that big-dog people were complaining about because it was a little tight.) Booker had a great time. I would have had a better time if we had qualified in anything. We’re still searching for that last Novice Standard qualifying run to earn Booker’s title. He loves running Standard – that’s the course with the contact obstacles. The ones that the dog has to touch the yellow part at the start and finish, like the dogwalk, the teeter-totter and the A-frame. Apparently Booker feels that they just slow him down. He loves to launch himself off the obstacle just above the part that he needs to touch. I must say, though, that both days he did the teeter really well, touching the bottom and waiting for his release cue. And even though he missed it on Saturday, Booker got his dogwalk on Sunday! The A-frame, on the other hand … Just too much fun.
We’ll keep practicing. One day …
