Lulu & Minnie

In August we were playing, sleeping and training. But also we watched Finnish championships in Rally obedience.   

 In the second half of August we went to try again in rally obedience competition.  This time near Tallinn (in Keila), judge was from Latvia, Peteris Akimovs. 1st course . Lulu was doing well. Just one sign she went to down when not supposed to. I felt very good, because Lulu had good mood until the end. The course was quite long and in the end she did get tired. And reversed steps were not successful :). For my big surprise we got only 67 points. Lost -10 from the steps back and -5 from the sit-stand-sit, where she laid down. But then we got 3x-3 with little mistakes and -9 from 1 point deductions and I'm not sure actually what the judge disliked.. Even when I looked critically then I have no clue where about 7 points were lost. But anyway this was just surprising, but i was still very happy of Lulu.  And in the end it was 3rd result so we got to posed on the podium :) 2nd course . Lulu were more tired, but the same in a very good mood. So she jumped up, I was happy that...

Finally Lulu entered in a official agility class! A1 jumping - two courses.  It was an exam and the judge was from Latvia: Lidia Belyaeva. Because it was Lulu first competition, she had to be measured. The judge got her just under the limit for small large class - so she could compete in medium class (max height is 43 cm). But we need to measure in the two coming competition to confirm the size. 1. course: It was a dog friendly course and good to start with. Unfortunately I over-handeled the entry to the slalom and totally under-handeled the last obstacle. Therefore 2 mistakes = -10 points, and it seems that we lost around 7 seconds to repair the mistakes. Therefore, speed 3.99m/s. But Lulu was enjoying herself a lot!!! 2. course. I thought that I need to trust Lulu more. She was more enthusiastic and more confident, I think! Great.  Again in one point I pushed Lulu to miss the jump, -5 and over 3 seconds to repair this mistake. I also think that she fell in the last tunnel....