Saturday 17 December 2011

Pups and UKA finals

Its 11 days on from the last pup to leave home and their 10 week birthday ;) Ive heard from all the new owners to say how lovely (naughty) they are and how well they are getting on :) 

Do I miss them?? Do I wish I had kept one?? No definitely not, Ive never been more sure of something. I would have been very foolish to keep one just because they were cute and one of the girls was just what I want. I am very much looking forward to seeing these babies grow and develop and all being well, breed from Luna again in a couple of years then keep one. 

I know they will all turn out to be superstars and maybe even be successful in their 'jobs' whether its agility, shooting or search and rescue.  However good or not so good in their 'job' they will still be my superstars and im sure their owners too!!

So, UKA finals

It was a fab weekend of agility, I was totally pooped by the end and im sure the organisers must have been totally knackard, but they all did a super job! For us It was a weekend of ups and downs and being more nervous for the people I train than my own runs! All of my 3 paws lot were just simply awesome, for most, if not all of them, its their first time in a final on that scale and they all did great whether they won (woo hoo!!) got placed, or got E'd they should all be very proud of themselves!! I am!! Bring on next year!

For my own runs, well, the weekend started of with the csj semi which I believe she was 3rd in, this meant we were in the final in the evening :) The top 3 places didnt change from the semi and we came 3rd overall. :)))

Sunday started off with disappointment I stupidly didnt trust her weave entry in the masters jumping and over worked it, I was so annoyed with myself especially when I looked at her time and she was still over a second faster then anyone else with having to take her back.

In the Masters faults get put into time so those 5 faults now meant we had 4 seconds to make up in the agility. Too much especially with her super dooper carefulness on rubber contacts. Its like Ive put glue on her feet or asked her to walk through quick sand!!

Anyway, this was totally irrelevant when we got e'd for taking #2 the wrong way :-s. This it not to say I wasnt pleased with her runs because the rest of the rounds were super, excellent close control, lovely distance control, and a cracking weave entry in the agility.

Her last competition was the circular knockout which she won!!:)))) We had already decided there was a quick course and a slow course because of the way the back line ran. So when I got put on the 'slow' course EVERYTIME! I knew I was going to have to shift my arse! Fudges weave entry was awesome every time. you can see from the video that it was almost right angle into left hand weaves, which so many people were moaning about when they were walking it. So proud of her that she nailed it from a distance every time which allowed me to get my chubby backside up for the push though. There was a straight line going though the back but to create that line and not turn it into a 'naughty flick' I had to chuck her and run. Paul said hes never seen me run so fast which I thought was funny :) anyway mum did a video of all my runs bar the masters jumping, not sure where thats gone?