A local show where I can practice new things - like contacts!
I stood on the line for the first run and felt like a newbie again as it was my first grade 6 run and I felt the expectation show be high. Anyway the jumping course was a nice Grade 6/7 course and Dylan did it beautifully, except dropping the last weave on 6 weave poles! - probably my fault! (Thanks for Mandy for videoing me)
The next run was agility and of course I did and said nothing for his contacts so he jumped them (silly me!) but everything else was brilliant - all the difficult jump combinations and the start was perfect!
I went outside onto the practice course to practice the "feet" command I am now training for dog walk contact, i.e. 2 on 2 off. He did it there and I remembered that I can also use "stop" to gain his attention as he still doesn't know the word "feet" yet.
We had another jumping run which we won with 5 faults and then finished with a grade1-7 agility which Dylan ran perfectly and I uses "stop" to slow him down on the dog walk which he did. Very happy with that run and with the red rosette - I checked our time against the grade 7 winning dog and we were 1 second behind, so I was very happy with that.
The best thing about going to this show was supporting my friends who are starting out in agility. They also did very well with their runs.