For us it was good…
Marcie made half a mistake (well, I’m calling it half of one), as she got her head past the wrong weave pole, but corrected her mistake when I told her — so we didn’t Q in standard. She was also very slow because it was muggy and starting to get warm — she’s a Vermont beagle…
I completely screwed up the beginning of Maggie’s run and she gave up in disgust. I had to promise a bribe but she was perfect after that. It was her first excellent run (the class excellent, not the style).
Then Marcie ran the exact same course, the way I wanted to run it, not the mucked up version and Qed, 5 seconds over time
Then Maggie and I were not on the same wave length for Open Standard, I put her over a jump wrong, she wouldn’t sit on the table, and she mucked up the weaves, but since we were already NQ, I decided not to push the issue.
I’m trying to get a specialist trainer to come to the house and help me set up some exercises to fix the girls weaves. We went to a workshop last week with her, and I figure having her come over and get me started right will help.
But for another handler and dog it was very very sad. I had just arrived when I heard a dog screaming. I was told later that the handler had crossed into the dog’s path and stepped on the dog. We later found out it was a spiral compund fracture and will be repaired on Monday.
There is a good part. They immediately set up a donation jar, and at 1:00 pm it was looking very full. The giving club said they would match donations to pay for the dog’s surgery and one of the vendors had a raffle set up and also pledged half the of the proceeds. I contributed and bought raffle tickets.
I hope the dog comes out okay and feel very badly for the handler.