I was so excited for this trial! Three whole days of agility goodness with all of my friends I have missed so much, plus my mom and my baby. I was worried that we would forgot something or need something or wish we had thought of something but surprisingly, we had everything we needed all weekend. I packed andrew his own little tiny bag with his doggy clothes and his KSU purple for game day, plus his blankie dogs that he loves and of course lots of diapers. We decided also to bring his bassinet for him to sleep in rather than the pack and play. It took up a lot of room in the car but I do think it was a wise choice as he slept like a pro all three nights. Overall, I was hugely pleased at how well andrew did this weekend. He slept mostly but he flirted and cooed with all of the women and has a ton of agility aunts, grandmas and one agility uncle now. He was only fussy when he got hungry. He did have one little fit every afternoon after we left the show site, thank goodness but it usually meant he needed a good sound sleeping nap and after fighting it for a little while, would usually go into a very deep sleep and sleep it off. Last night was probably the worst of all the fits as it lasted on and off about an hour but once he got a good nap in, he was fine. I actually got sleep too this weekend, even fell asleep at 8:30 one night and mom took care of him while I slept. I needed that! He had been previously so restless at night, probably due to the re-occurrence of stupid thrush. Now he is pretty much sleeping from 10 till 4:30 or later. I will take that in a heartbeat! He usually goes back to sleep after that early morning bottle but of course this morning he stayed up till 6 am and then crashed. Thank goodness I have a flexible job schedule so I got in a couple more hours of sleep. Now on to the dog part of this blog:)
Deuce and I were a little rusty. It was weird, the first day he ran so great but had a bar in every run. Deuce hardly ever knocks bars so that kind of rattled me. Especially when it was the first bar a couple of runs. I even tried setting him way back so that he got several strides in before he had to jump and that seem to not help at all. Overall the runs on the first day were smoking, just those stupid bars. Day 2 dawned and I was a little rattled but had decided that if he knocked the first bar, he was done. Of course he didn't knock the first bar the first two runs, one T2B run he knocked a bar somewhere on the course and then in jumpers he popped out of his weaves and then we kind of had a melt down together. In his defense, the weaves went straight into the wall so I am sure he was feeling pressure but he doesn't normally do that and I wasn't moving laterally away so I didn't pull him out. Then of course he knocked the first bar in standard and i was in running mode because it was a hard course and I wanted to try certain parts of it so I missed a training opportunity because I wanted to run. Bad me!!!! Of course he got through the hard part beautiful which made that one bar hurt even worse. URGH! Day 3 had me a little nervous again. I hate going three days without a Q and even though it isn't about the Q, I wanted at least one stinking Q. I need to get out of that mindset. So many of the young dogs that started with Deuce and now getting so consistent and so fast and many have multiple double Qs and I need to not worry about that because none of them have recently been preggers or had a baby but dang it, I am still competitive so I still watch them and think, that could have been me if I had not have had a lay off. Anyway, we didn't have T2B so just two runs and I wanted to focus on having good parts instead of worrying about the whole run. Jumpers had a two jump lead out that went into a serp and I so wanted collection. I had worked so hard on that and seemed to had that fixed before i had to stop running. Well, guess what, he is back to not wanting to collect so guess I will be working on that this week for sure before the show this weekend. He blew past me and of course knocked a bar again. Can't remember which one it was but it hurt just the same. Standard was our last chance and I was determined to work ever single obstacle. We had a very tough serp into the weaves that I was not totally comfortable with so I turned it into a tight rear into the weaves and that worked beautifully. Then the silly dog just ran past a jump that was right in his face. Really deuce? I am sure I just let down ever so slightly because I was like, whew we got through the hard part. Really hate when that happens because then little thing bite you in the ass.
So overall, not horribly bad, wish I could figure out what the bar issue is. Maybe just need to work one jump skills this week if I have time. His weave entries were spot on, he collected for them no problem. Contacts were good although the last run was dog walk, jump at the end and he self released but I got a verbal correction in so he knew he was wrong. Can't wait till this weekend to see how he does. I hate that we were running so well right before i left and now we seemed to have start back kind of at the beginning but at least not the very, very beginning:) I start teaching again this week, just one night but won't have time to go get him so have to figure out when and where I can train him. This weekend will be the first show without my mom but I know I will have tons of help with all of andrew's agility aunts and uncles. Am staying close to the show site too, so that helps. I really do have the best agility friends in the world. I am so glad to be back doing the sport I love!!!!
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