He was in 6 runs on Saturday and 5 on Sunday, for a total of 6 Standard runs, 3 Jumpers, and 2 Snookers. It was a bit cool outside, but bummer -- inside the building was toasty warm most of the time. So Walter wasn't his most fresh or invigorated self, but still a good sport.
Saturday's Standards were tricky and we had several goofs in all of them including botched weaves in all three (two pops and one missed entry). Sunday's Standards were nicer but still gave us trouble. The great news is he did clean weaves in the last two. We ended up with 1 Standard Q. Oh yeah and on a few of the dogwalks he either didn't do 2o2o or self-released, but this probably has little to do with the teeter thing since he did that last weekend too.
We got both Snookers, nothing particularly exciting to write about though. Didn't include any weaves - one course didn't have weaves, and the other had them as #7 so I planned around them.
We got two of the three Jumpers. Of note, one of them was the very first time I got to run Walter AND Lucy on the same course at a trial!!! (Check out Lucy's blog for the details of her fantabulous weekend.)
Got video of most of the runs but won't bother posting most of them since they really weren't particularly exciting. A few goofups I scratched my head about until watching the video back, where it so clearly shows that I sent Walter right over that off course jump, right into the offcourse weaves, and so on.
I will, however, post two videos. First, the Jumpers run on Saturday for which I got to run both dogs! :-))) It was the last event of the day so we were all on the slow side.
And, since Walter's clean Standards are so few and far between, here's that one. Again, not very exciting as it was warm and we were slow, but it shows the current state of our new teeter performance... and oops, the lack of 2o2o on the dogwalk was MY fault - I released him way early in the panic of being so close to a Standard Q. :>
4 comments:
Congrats! They both look like they're such a joy to work with.
My trial is coming up in less than three weeks.. it's so exciting and scary!
Thanks! It was a fun weekend, especially with Lucy, loved her enthusiasm.
The countdown is on! I'm getting excited for you :-)
Nice job. He's doing well. I gave up on 2o2o for Tika's teeter years ago; she never flies off except when she honestly doesn't know it's a teeter so flies up it like a dogwalk ramp and it's a REAL flyoff. Hardly ever happens that way. Like Walter, she's more circumspect about doing the teeter than Boost, who usually slams it down and sometimes even slides into the end. So I think the quick-release teeter is perfect for Walter.
Glad to hear you think dropping the 2o2o will work for us as it does for Tika. No idea why I didn't think to do this long ago...
Post a Comment