Well in 2 days we are off to Sydney for the inaugural World Dog Games to be held in Homebush, Acer Arena. We are very excited and a little nervous! Terra has been selected to run in the agility competition, there will be 4 dogs competing in the each class, and there are 2 classes. This will be a very big event, they have already sold 7,000 tickets with another 7,000 tickets still expecting to be sold. It will be televised on channel 7, not sure when it will be shown. As well as agility, there is a flyball and canine Disc Dogs competition, and a demo of Dock Diving. Greg Derret is doing a seminar both afternoons, and there will be lots of stalls and dog related merchandise! Its going to be a big event!
I have been stressed beyond belief (just ask my family!) whether Terra was going to be able to compete, she hurt her toe about 6 weeks ago, repeating an injury she did 2 years ago in Geraldton. I pulled her out of everything, including the royal show, to try and make sure it was going to be OK for the games. Then, when I took her to training at Northern Suburbs a couple of Wednesdays ago, she tore a big chunk of pad off her back foot! I couldn't believe it! So I had to give her ANOTHER week and a half off to try and give the pad a chance to heal. Finally I trained her last Wednesday and then again on Sunday. She trained well, thank goodness! I suppose 2 training sessions in the last 8 weeks are better than none!
We leave Perth early Wednesday morning, and Thursday we are getting our uniforms, meeting the judges and looking over the grounds. Friday is the dress rehearsal and the show is on from 12-3pm Saturday and Sunday. Wish us luck! Our aim is to have fun and show everyone what a blast doing agility can be!
On another note, since its supposed to be Secrets' blog, Secret starts trialling when we get back. She is entered in our first evening competition, in novice, not for competition. I'm not sure what she will do, I think we may have a problem with her waiting on the start line, something I have now started to address at training. I haven't wanted to make a fuss about it earlier since she really wasn't that driven to do agility, and I think that was the right decision. Hopefully she is keen and runs fast, thats all I want out of her at this stage.
There is also some more news, but that will wait for another update..
...ready for action !
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
Show N Go!
Well finally an update on this blog that is actually on the subject of the blog..
Secret had her 1st ring appearance on Sunday at the Show N Go. It was a great time to get her in the ring, as food and training in the ring was encouraged.
She ran 4 courses, 2 modified masters courses and 2 novice courses. She was very excited to be there, barking and carrying on like a bit of a lunatic, which was good to see! For the 1st jumping course I got Mike to hold her at the start line in a restrained recall and she powered off the start line, and ran a relatively confident jumping round, focussing on me and her job which I was very pleased with!
Her next course was an agility course, this time I asked her to wait at the start..which she sort of did..apart from the barks that she assured me 'pushed' her off her start line wait..hmm we will have to see how that goes!
Her A frame was nice, but her dog walk wasn't as confident with me rear crossing so we ran back to do it again. She handled the line of jumps quite easily after the dog walk and then fell off the table..more to work on. Her weavers were quite pretty but not as fast as I would like, and I would also prefer her to drive more over her jumps but all in all not a bad job for her debut!
Not long now till she is in the ring 'properly' (albeit in NFC) and although we still have lots to work on, I now feel more confident that she will at least be able to get into the ring!
She's come a long way in the last couple of months..from a dog that was consistently running off EVERY training session and would not focus on me at ALL, to a do that is now trying most of the time. Hopefully more to come..!
Linda kindly taped one of her agility runs and sent it to me, so I will put that up as soon as I work out how to..kindly uploaded by Karen.
Secret had her 1st ring appearance on Sunday at the Show N Go. It was a great time to get her in the ring, as food and training in the ring was encouraged.
She ran 4 courses, 2 modified masters courses and 2 novice courses. She was very excited to be there, barking and carrying on like a bit of a lunatic, which was good to see! For the 1st jumping course I got Mike to hold her at the start line in a restrained recall and she powered off the start line, and ran a relatively confident jumping round, focussing on me and her job which I was very pleased with!
Her next course was an agility course, this time I asked her to wait at the start..which she sort of did..apart from the barks that she assured me 'pushed' her off her start line wait..hmm we will have to see how that goes!
Her A frame was nice, but her dog walk wasn't as confident with me rear crossing so we ran back to do it again. She handled the line of jumps quite easily after the dog walk and then fell off the table..more to work on. Her weavers were quite pretty but not as fast as I would like, and I would also prefer her to drive more over her jumps but all in all not a bad job for her debut!
Not long now till she is in the ring 'properly' (albeit in NFC) and although we still have lots to work on, I now feel more confident that she will at least be able to get into the ring!
She's come a long way in the last couple of months..from a dog that was consistently running off EVERY training session and would not focus on me at ALL, to a do that is now trying most of the time. Hopefully more to come..!
Linda kindly taped one of her agility runs and sent it to me, so I will put that up as soon as I work out how to..kindly uploaded by Karen.
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