Yesterday I took Gracie, Ocean & Brexton to their first ever PDSC agility trial!
As background, Gracie has competed in AAC (Agility Association of Canada) agility trials for about 18 months now (AAC is the main agility association in Canada). Neither Ocean nor Brexton have been to an official trial yet, but they both were in some fun trials over the summer. Btw, Gracie is my adopted 5 yr old merlequin Dane girl, Ocean is my adopted 3 yr old harlequin deaf Dane girl, and Brexton is my male border collie pup (now 17 months old).
I don't have video ready yet for Ocean or Brexton so I'll post that when it becomes available.
For now, I have this footage of Gracie running in a Level I standard course. She was STUPENDOUS. She nailed all of her obstacle entries & contacts. And that first straight line of obstacles in the opening was AMAZING for her. She has always had trouble with straight lines, and often would run past an obstacle or circle back to me. Here, as you can see, she NAILED every obstacle right off the bat!!! I nearly fainted from the shock of seeing her run so perfectly at the end of that first line, and said "holy crap!!!" out loud at that point!!! LOL
Here is the video to share with you ... I'm SO proud of her!!! Btw, she would have Q'd on this run, but I stupidly set her up all wrong to take the tunnel under the frame and she mistakenly took the frame so was off course. ARGHHH on handler screw-ups!! LOL
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbODDZKBNuM"]YouTube - Gracie running Level I Standard at her first PDSC agility trial.[/ame]
Enjoy! More vids will be posted when I get them from my friend. :-)
P.S. PDSC is a new agility association started by my trainer, called "Progressive Dog Sports of Canada". It is much more dog-friendly, has more flexibility for the various types of dogs that compete, and more options for classes to enter. For example, in PDSC I can enter any/all Danes as "Exceptional K9" and this allows them to jump 16" instead of 22" or 26" that they'd have to jump in AAC. And, for Ocean, I get more time to complete a course because she is deaf. There are no tables ... ever ... ! And no teeter until level II. It's a great association and has been well received since it started in the summer.
As background, Gracie has competed in AAC (Agility Association of Canada) agility trials for about 18 months now (AAC is the main agility association in Canada). Neither Ocean nor Brexton have been to an official trial yet, but they both were in some fun trials over the summer. Btw, Gracie is my adopted 5 yr old merlequin Dane girl, Ocean is my adopted 3 yr old harlequin deaf Dane girl, and Brexton is my male border collie pup (now 17 months old).
I don't have video ready yet for Ocean or Brexton so I'll post that when it becomes available.
For now, I have this footage of Gracie running in a Level I standard course. She was STUPENDOUS. She nailed all of her obstacle entries & contacts. And that first straight line of obstacles in the opening was AMAZING for her. She has always had trouble with straight lines, and often would run past an obstacle or circle back to me. Here, as you can see, she NAILED every obstacle right off the bat!!! I nearly fainted from the shock of seeing her run so perfectly at the end of that first line, and said "holy crap!!!" out loud at that point!!! LOL
Here is the video to share with you ... I'm SO proud of her!!! Btw, she would have Q'd on this run, but I stupidly set her up all wrong to take the tunnel under the frame and she mistakenly took the frame so was off course. ARGHHH on handler screw-ups!! LOL
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbODDZKBNuM"]YouTube - Gracie running Level I Standard at her first PDSC agility trial.[/ame]
Enjoy! More vids will be posted when I get them from my friend. :-)
P.S. PDSC is a new agility association started by my trainer, called "Progressive Dog Sports of Canada". It is much more dog-friendly, has more flexibility for the various types of dogs that compete, and more options for classes to enter. For example, in PDSC I can enter any/all Danes as "Exceptional K9" and this allows them to jump 16" instead of 22" or 26" that they'd have to jump in AAC. And, for Ocean, I get more time to complete a course because she is deaf. There are no tables ... ever ... ! And no teeter until level II. It's a great association and has been well received since it started in the summer.
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