Cedar surpassed all of my expectations for our first agility trial. We qualified in 9 out of 17 runs and finished two titles (NAC- Novice Agility Certificate and NJC- Novice Jumpers Certificate)with mostly first placements! We also got legs in Chances, Touch N Go, and Hoopers. She finished first place in all but one qualifying run... where she placed second :)
But better than all the Q's was how well Cedar behaved herself in the trial environment. She was AWESOME... very little stress, great focus, good start line and contacts, and sat quietly in her crate when we weren't running. She had a great time, visiting happily with everyone and getting lots of attention. She was great in competition, listened well (for the most part) and extremely fast. She averaged about 4 yards per second, even with quite a few bobbles in most of our runs :-P.
Overall, it was a great experience and I can't wait to do it again! It was great finally getting out there and competing... guess all our hard work finally is paying off!
Here's a photo of both of us looking really tired with all our ribbons! You can't see them all... I'll try and get a better pic tomorrow :) I also have a ton of video footage to sort through and edit... but I promise to share some videos when I get them done!
Congratulations to both of you!! I know that was a great sense of accomplishment. Sage is going to start agility in January, so we'll see if she can manage to stay focused like Cedar does!!
ReplyDeleteWow - congratulations on a fantastic debut weekend!!!
ReplyDeleteWell done!!! What a wonderful team you are! Congratulations on those big wins!
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