The Curse of the Knocked Bars
Written by Deb on June 12th, 2009I was at our Lab Specialty agility trial all day today running two dogs as well as working at it. Jazz had some really fast runs (as in fastest in her class) but still can’t keep all of the bars up. People keep saying “wait til she grows up, she’ll calm down” — she is SIX! It is very frustrating to have such a talented dog and still be stuck in Novice Jumpers and no legs in Open Standard. Cori had the opposite problem — she doesn’t like it when it gets hot and in the sun it was hot so she just trotted along or barely ran until the last few jumps. She either didn’t make time (and had the slowest time in her class) or had a knocked bar due to laziness. I think I just need to give up running her outside in summer weather. So I ran two directly opposite types of dogs and no “q’s” today. Just venting…….
ADDENDUM: Saturday Jazz qualified in both rally obedience classes with 4th places in each (95 and 97 out of 100) so partially redeemed herself.
I feel your pain!
I know you do — wish you’d gotten ribbons this weekend but glad you came!
It was so fun getting to see you again and spend some time with you. I always want Caleb to do well there because it is one of the clubs you are involved with.
Got your name from a Pug Daddy friend. Looking to find out when the Lab Nationals are next year and what the criteria is for entering. Have two wonderful labs that do agility. One will be 7 the other will be 2 this weekend. The 2 yr. old is VERY fast. The 7 yr. old is very large but great at agility.
The Lab Nationals will be held in S. CA next year in October. Info will be available on http://www.thelabradorclub.com web site. Any Lab can enter. Sadly we are too far away to be able to go next year but hopefully in 2011 it will be closer. Who is your friend?