Lulu & Minnie

 Second competition at grade 3. This time in Vastse-Kuuste. Judge Rene Blank. 1st course. Agility . There was three moments on the course that could be a problem. On first (sending to the slalom) I completely over handled the situation. But lost only time. Second moment also, Over handled and lost tiny bit of time. Third moment - not a problem :) Results was clean run!!! yepiii. And first place . I was very happy! 2nd agility course . Minnie took off after dog walk towards the tunnel - I dont know if she thought that it goes the same as the last course :), but I managed to stop her before entering the tunnel. We were able to execute the layering the slalom, it worked beautifullllyyy!!! Trouble was on a jump that I did not see it coming. I did not realised that the dogs line goes passing the jump, therefore I did no effort on correcting the line - and Minnie went behind the jump. DSQ. After Minnie was going to tunnel, the juge instructed to go back where our dsq started. This time...

 After 1.5 month competition break we starter the season and in grade 3!   It was held by TAKO in Männiku. Judge Christl Faltner. 1st course . Jumping. Quite challenging. A lot of traps on the dogs line. We almost got it! Excapt at the one hurdle before last. Where I did not call Minnie...was thinking about the clean run :) And she went straight (not turning with me..) and DSQ .  2nd course. Jumping. Got DSQ quite early, on 5th jump, where she did not turn enough and took the wrong jump. It was not the "last" DSQ for us :) I was struggeling to keep her on the correct path.  3rd course . Agility. The same. Got did not manage to keep on on the good track. DSQ.

In august we rested a lot. Just a bit of training, But mostly resting :)  

 The competition were held close to home, only 20 min drive. Judge was Linda Wiksten (FIN). We were competing in grade 2. 1st course. Somehow we lost 4points in start. She sneezed? Then at first sign we lost 8p, because she were sniffing hard 2 times even.  It went a bit smootly then, but I didnt manage to make her spin on time, -10p :(. After that she was good, but before the end, on the last turn, she lost focus - turned to me (-10p). So overall basically 3x failed signes + somehow deductions in the start = -33p. In total 67p.   2nd course . On this course we managed to get on 4 signs -10p, one from them was on me - I turned to the wrong way, and one was again spinning too late. Uhh. But also some sniffing and distractions cost us about -15p. So this time it was only 45 points left for us. It was quite disappointing and not encouraging :D But still got 3rd place on both courses :) But I have to admit that we had no training for rally at all for a month. We will try aga...

 As we cannot participate in IPAC this year, then we decided to go to Janakkala Open as our "big event abroad".  It was planned as our last competition in grade 2.  We started our family trip one day earlier to settle in to the camping house at the lake side 15 mins from the competition grounds.  DAY 1 The competition started only in the afternoon, so we spent the first half of the day at the beach: Then it was time to go to the competition, register and get my number Jumping course (B) . Judge Reetta Pirttikoski. Nice course and everything went as planned. Maybe I was a bit careful but it was first time running on that kind of gravelly surface for both of us. We got clean run with speed 5.65 m/s. That gave us 2nd place and ticket to the finals.  Jumping course (A) . Judge Einari Pekkala. Lot of wraps on the course (5). Only one change of the plan, where I did a rear cross instead of planned blind, but all went well and we had another clean run with speed 4.9 ...

 Minnie is perfect little traveller. In the restaurant in Latvia: Lap dog at home: Training session: Lulu has still been doing mantrailing, and still after she can go to interesting walks, for example to see some cows in the city: In July we went to a family photo shooting and got some very nice photos: With my poodle wearing my poodle t-shirt! Saaremaa trip with Minnie: Minnie got also to see some cows! Birthday party!