This was Campbells first ever full height agility show. I have been training him for about 12 weeks now so didnt expect too much but he has been amazing and has really picked it up well. The main week point is our weaves which i have trained badly and now he relies in me being right next to him or he comes out. Our first class of the day was introductory agility. I was a nice easy straight up and down course and he started really well. Just as he was about to go up the A-frame he spotted my friend who was videoing us and ran past. I circled him and carried on and then 3 jumps later he spotted my friend again and ran past a jump! he has never done this before so i grabbed his collar to get his attention (thinking we already had 10F so it didnt matter) we then completed the rest of the course nicely. W[hen i left the ring i found out you dont get marked for refusals in BAA at introductory level so i actually only got 5F and that was for touching my dog. I went to get my time (27.16 seconds) and was shocked to discover we would have come 6th had i not touched my dog. Not a bad start to his agility career.
Then was introductory jumping where we had a pole down in a good time of 20.91 seconds. And our last class of the day was introductory steeplechase where we had a pole again but in another good time of 23.47 second which would have put us into 3rd!!
Sunday we had 3 runs again. Intro agility where we had a pole in 40.4 seconds but other that that Campbell was great. My friend was banned from coming today so no distractions! Then intro jumping which went really well. Campbell was working really well and did a cracking clear in 24.41 second to put us in 14th, with rosettes going to 13th so we missed out on his first placing by 1! The last class of the day was intro 'take you own line jumping' where we had another fantastic clear on not the easiest of courses in 31.15 seconds to finish 14th again with rosettes going to 10th. Im really please with my little star, hes gone from having no interest in training to super star in only a few weeks. it just took him 2 and a half years to decided he had a brain!
