Louisville, KY

We attended our 1st ever Louisville, KY agility trial... what a fun weekend. I have heard so many great things about this 3 ring trial on dirt... and it really was a fun weekend. Lots of friends were there not to mention lots of amazing agility handlers...

Thursday: Rumor ran 26" this entire weekend and he didn't seem to have problems with it. Our 1st Std run was fantastic... just 1 dropped bar right at the end. Unfortunately, I really mishandled the opening of our JWW course and sent him into the wrong end of the tunnel. I just want to get out of ExA JWW... we only need 1 more Q!

Friday: Rumor had another great Std run with just 1 error at the weaves. He didn't hold his a-frame contact and I was all flustered and really needed to hustle from a-frame to tunnel to weaves so I was much farther behind than I planned on being... but the rest of his run was just what I wanted so no complaints. Another JWW Q that was so close, but so far... a knocked bar and then I got all flustered... bummer! We also got to do our 1st ever ISC Jumpers class... how fun! Rumor did pretty well for a baby dog... only 1 refusal and the rest was clean!

Saturday:  Rumor's Std run was kind of a mess... it seemed like the wheels fell off a bit today. After the beginning we pulled it together, but it wasn't very pretty... neither was our JWW run. Oh well. We ran the ISC Std class Saturday night... a couple more errors than the ISC JWW class, but it was definitely our best run of the day so I was happy to end on a high note.

Sunday: Another Std run that was so close... totally clean except he missed the weave entrance - I over handled it and I think that was the problem... sorry Rumz! Our JWW run... we got all of the difficult parts and had a refusal at an easy 180... bummer! Oh well, hopefully we will finish our AXJ in April.

Great trial... the footing was a little hard, but I definitely want to go back next year!

Rumor is going to Worlds!

I was so proud of Rumor this weekend.  We went to Cedar Falls, IA for another DockDogs Zone Qualifier.  I was feeling very under the weather all week and Rumor pulled us through it and had a fantastic weekend at the event!  Not only did he win "crowd favorite" each day he also won the entire Pro Finals!  Winning this Zone Qualifier earned him an invitation to the World Championships in July for Big Air.  I'm very excited... that was 1 of our goals this year and we got it!  Rumor's best jump of the weekend was a 25' 2" jump and I couldn't be more proud of the little man... he just keeps impressing me every time we go out!