Fast course, hard on slow handler – pushed too hard for speed on the last jump and got on off course. She was moving slower than I would have liked over all.
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Marcie–Remembering the perfect beagle
As EE, my agility instructor calls her. Marcie, Bettner’s Byte O Magic, AX OAJ AXP AJP was pretty close to perfect. We had trouble making time, which is why we switched to Preferred and might be doing that with Macy but not until we have some Open Q’s under our belt.
(for the non-North Dallas agility people – EE standards for Elizabeth Evans, not to be confused with the two other Elizabeths that teach agility EA and EH – I think, we might not dare call her that).
She wasn’t at the beginning. She wasn’t as bad as Macy – I honestly don’t remember her running out of the ring, but she had her moments. Happily I’m in better physical shape running Macy than I was Marcie.
It took a lot of work, a lot of training, but she became a rock solid, I do exactly what my mother says and I run exactly as fast as she does.
And I miss her every agility weekend.
However, U-CDX Weaver’s Peppermint Patty UD was a bit of a better dog, though never did agility, they didn’t have good heights for beagles back then, and she was a little beagle.
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Two clean runs !
We ran clean again on standard – took 2nd!
I was shocked – not only did she do the teeter but she did a sit on the table! No she didn’t have to!
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JWW sucks (time wise )
We were 11 seconds over time it and wasn’t the dog! She moving well and constantly. Still have standard to go.
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Dulce–day 2 — Heat
I’ve been feeling guilty about the fact that I have to crate Dulce to keep her from making a mess and from getting “with puppy”, so I went to Petsmart and bought their largest crate. People kept looking at me putting it into the truck (fit fine).
There is enough room for three beagles in there and be able to move around. I’m actually kicking around the idea of putting it in the truck instead of separate cages.
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Dulce
I dreamed she was coming into heat earlier this week, and looks like I was right. The plan right now is to go look for panties. (Main reason for the post is for me to remember when it happened.
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Rally
I went to a rally seminar and was reminded why I don’t like these things. I would say a good 20% of the tome was spent arguing about the rules.
About equal to the working to which was sad.
Other than not enough working time it wasn’t bad.
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Dulce had a good agility class
Dulce is a bully – she looks sweet but she likes to take other dogs toys and chew ears.
Last night she the opportunity but didn’t take it. Instead she choose to do work and play with me.
Very cool.
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No Qs today
I think we were BOTH exhausted. Also, that site is so stimulating, it wears her out. We had a nice clean run in JWW, but she stopped and scratched and there isn’t time for that in JWW. I couldn’t get her to move in Standard and asked the judge if we could be excused. He said, yes, take that tired dog home, and I scratched her from Fast.
Good time though and we have pretty green ribbons and a gorgeous Title Ribbon.
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Tesoro’s Herald Square, NA, NAJ
After 2 years and three months of trialing, Macy is now out of Novice. Thank dog! We haven’t shown every show in the area in those two years.
She did okay her first trial. At her second trial, she developed a fear of teeters. This was to add to an already mistrust of the chute – she got caught in it once.
I gained a huge amount of weight and both she and Maggie started running out of the ring. We took quite a few breaks from showing and I even had lap band surgery.
We also Qed in Open JWW today. So we had a good one. No luck in Fast, but that’s not really our game yet.