Lulu & Minnie

Before the big summer vacation (also for the dog), we participated in agility competition in Vastse-Kuuste, still in A0 class (Judge Marko Visse). 1. course: Lulu was knocking down 2 bars, and one with the wing of the jump. Unfortunately this gave us DSQ . We still were running to the end (if not DSQ then we would have got 2 refusals). 2. course. We did a clean run : )  I really liked how Lulu felt good enough to go to tunnels and some jumps quite far! I was very happy with Lulu! The speed was 5.38 m/s, 1st place. The award ceremony was combining the 2 courses, so we were 2nd :)

Again in Rally competition. Same judge, different location. This time I was left puzzled. Lulu had very good mood overall. But she was confused, distracted.  1st course: Did not wanted to stand, lots of repetition (-5). I managed to stumble (-1). Did not want to come in front but went around instead (last week it was the opposite..hmm?) (-5). Did not go down on cue, tried again, but this time came up too early..(-8). Stopped walking (-3). Looking around, going around (-5). 4x either scratching, too far, looking around (in total -6). So we had 4x-5p :( We were left only with 67 points.  2nd course. Here from the second sign I lost my mood, because she again had issues with coming in front. I did not did it again, like I should have (-10). In this course I did many mistakes that was very costly, on sixth sign, I took extra step (-10), also did this on ninth sign (-5). That is basically 20 points l ost because my simple mistakes. In addition Lulu was distracted and got in total -...