A scorcher! Hospital rooms are definitely not designed to cope with heat waves - yes, my dad is still in hospital with kidney problems - the same single room for 9 weeks!! However, we heard today that he is to be moved to the Urology Ward, so at least he will have a change of scene.....
Yesterday, Bank Holiday Monday, I accompanied some of the Beginners' Group from the Tuesday night class to their first foray into competition at Delinquent Dogz. Great courses from Doc Docherty and Jules Vickerman - straightforward enough for the beginners to cope with (3 rosettes can't be bad for their first show!) yet enough to challenge the more experienced dogs.
Bryn behaved beautifully. Amber took a chunk out of his face on Sunday morning (who knows why?!?) so he was a bit subdued which certainly helped with his 'no meet/greet' training. (Don't worry - a vet looked him over and passed him fit for purpose before he competed) He and I made silly mistakes in each course - a quick turn, a pole down, an unintentional pull past etc etc, so no rosettes, but some lovely, focused, fast work.
Amber was entered in just the jumping classes - and managed a clear round! She might have done better had I not thought she had been faulted and stopped working her properly! Numpty!! She even managed to keep going all the way in the Helter Skelter without arguing with me, but got something wrong (forget what!) so no rosette there. She was a good girl.
And Corker got to play as well - Delinquent Dogz is the only show that Corker enters - despite not having trained at all for 3 years, or is it 4 years...? Thanks Michelle for giving me the chance to play agility with my boy! No rosettes for him either this time - but Michelle told me that he had managed to qualify for the DD Finals in July on his previous performances! What a hoot! The only one of my 3 that doesn't compete or train, is the only one of my 3 to qualify. LOL!!
It was lovely to see so many people relaxing in the sunshine, and applauding each others' performances - what agility should be all about.
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