Regionals is now history! What a great event it was - the venue was awesome - very large, lots of shade trees, oodles of places to bench, off leash trails, great weather - what more could you ask!
The organizers from Flashing Canines did a wonderful job - didn't see a glitch all weekend. We camped in the parking lot, which is the only way to go when you're bringing 6 dogs!
Ditto reminded me that she really can jump out of a 3ft x-pen but she was a good girl other than that!
My goals for the weekend were for Bizzie to have fun & run & I really was hoping she would qualify for the first time... for Blast, I was hoping he could stop worrying & improve on his last year's result (11th place)
So Bizzie ran really well, but I wasn't really used to the fast, happy Bizzie so we had a few oopsies... some my fault & some, well, she can be pretty naughty. She lost us about 10 sec in the last jumpers round by wandering around the start line (took offense to me asking her to wait!)
She got the first gamble, was clean in the first jumpers, but took a wide turn in standard & took the wrong jump then fiddled around at the weave pole entrance. She didn't get the second gamble cause she kept going out after the out jump & took an extra one for good measure then finished the gamble perfectly!
The second standard my motion kept her moving forward after the tunnel instead of turning so we had a costly off course, then she thought she was finished after the dogwalk & ran off so it took a few seconds to get her back to do the last jumps.
Anyhow, to sum up, she qualified with over 400 points & was 7th in her division... she also tugged in the warmup which is a huge thing for me - she's never been able to do that before ever! So it was a very successful regionals for miss Bizzie B!
Blast didn't have the greatest weekend - he was very worried & distracted for almost every run. He did manage to get the first gamble & had a clean jumpers run on Sunday. He bailed off the teeter twice, something new for him, & did a lot of wandering around between obstacles. He did qualify in 8th place & actually got a 3rd in the Gamble, but he had less points than last year & seemed more stressed. That may be his last agility trial, I really don't want to force him to do something that stresses him so much.
I'm undecided about Nationals - probably won't go, but if I do, I will just take Bizzie... she really was a good little girl!
