Lulu & Minnie

The next day of the obedience competition, we drove to Zaķumuiža, Latvia, to the agility competition. The judge was Anastassia Tamm. Competition started with an unofficial open agility course and then continued with official grade 2 two agility courses.  Open agility. Difficult was more like an easy grade 3. I was especially worried about a tricky combination where you had to pull the dog from one tunnel away just before another tunnel. I managed to do it a bit too well :) positioned myself too far from the jump (just in case she is not coming), but she came very well, and then I was in a bad position, so she took the jump straight, not behind - DSQ . After that, the see-saw was beautiful, and then I was a sloppy handler, because I had already earned DSQ.  1st agility course. Tricky was the dog-walk. Before and after were jumps from behind. And I pushed Minnie completely out of the correct line after the dog-walk, which made her take the behind of the far obstacle. What a go...

 Rally Obedience competition in Tagadi. It is a really nice place in summer to compete!  Judge Lauma Zutere (from Latvia). We were in grade 2 (RK2). 1st course . we got deductions from 4 different signs. Firstly for in the first sign, she hesitate to come to stand from sit (-3p) (I would not maybe gibe -3 for this..). Secondly, in turn, the angle was too big (-1p) and then small hesitation to sit (-1p). Thirdly, at 8th sign (turning to right), she only sit for 1 second. That cost us -10p. And forth was at the last sign, where Minnie was starting to be confused for lying down. Judge only gave us -3, I would have taken away more points (I even thought that it would be -10 for us). I would have also deducted points from one sign (-3). So I think I would have gotten very similar end result.  I really liked how Minnie was focused on me, and did not let her to be disturbed! Our result was  82 points and this was actually worth 2nd place : ) 2nd course . Since getting ...