Lulu & Minnie

We went to try rally obedience again, still in RK2 class. We are not in a hurry to move on just yet :) The judge was Iris Harju (FIN). The dog hall was different from what Minnie has been used to. Blue tent-like, where walls were moving in the wind...this is something to get used to, for sure.  1st course: nice start. At 3. Sign (sit-stand-move around the dog) - she moved the back feet...-3p. Next was stepping back, where she stepped on my toes 2 times and hesitated to sit at the end (-4p). Then turning and slalom was nice. After that, it was a turn, but Minnie missed the stopping part and had to turn back (-10p); otherwise, very nice turn :). 270 turn was very nice! After that a jump. She got surprised by this jump :D -3p. Finally we lost 2p in a spin. And one after the finish, because I turned to exit too sharply, causing her to jump away.  But our typical mistakes were all there: spin doesn't work on the first try (it only happens during competition!), she misses my stop a...

A day after I ran my first-ever half-marathon, and on my birthday, we had our third competition at the A3 level. The judge was Peter Pupik, and it was held in Vastse-Kuuste. 1. jumping course . There was a difficult choice of 3 tunnels in the course! And we managed this! I was very happy. Before the end, I planned to blind, but I was late for that, and then I was in the wrong position for flick or an out, and Minnie was already about to jump - but then stopped right before jumping, and I was able to guide her to the backside - no refusal for this, and that meant a  clean run! And 1st place ! 2. jumping. The course went quite well for us until after slalom, so the jump no 13 was unlucky for us. I wanted to layer a jump, but I was not handling the layering well, and pulled Minnie towards me. She did come like a perfect pup she is :) I was not able to repair the situation, and she took the correct jump from the wrong side - DSQ . Actually, my fear of the course was still coming, and ...