Keston Agility Show

Three runs today for each of the boys. First up Campbell had graded 1 & 2 agility. Stupidly i have wrecked our contacts in the last few weeks so we ended up with 5 on the A frame. I really need to re think how we train contacts and work the contacts in the ring as i hate to ruin a good run by holding him in the 2 on 2 off position. Next up was Chico im still trying to get the excitment & enjoyment back with him so am not putting him in a wait at the beginning and have started running his contacts as he has got very creepy and slow recently. This has been working well but now that he has got his speed back he has started to miss them so i am going to have a go a training him to do running contacts. He missed his dog walk then flew the see saw so i put him back over getting us E'd.

Next up Campbell had combined grade 1 - 3 jumping. He did a nice round to finish clear with one wide turn which cost us a few seconds and a place. Chico also finished clear but was very slow through the weaves and had quite a few wide turns but was only 3 seconds slower than Campbell so he is much quicker over the jumps.

Last up they had grade 1 jumping. I wanted a nice fast up and down course for Chico and got one! i did a running start with him and he got a nice entry into the weaves but i rushed him too much and he ended up comming out early then had a pole. Campbell was amazing. Id got some Pow Wow energy drink to see if it helped him get through the day as he can get very tired and his first run is often his best. Well either it worked or he was very keen as he did a lovely fast round to finish 8th. There was only 1 second between all the top 10 dogs so im very pleased.