What A Fun Day!

Yesterday was a BLAST! I'm sure Tractor's ideal day if he could tell ya. We got up pretty early and went to the NADAC trial in Van Nuys, CA. It wasn't a large trial at all, so the day went by pretty quick. We were entered in five runs for the day... starting off with Chances. It was a discrimination right off the bat, dog walk with a tunnel under it - this is always the death of us in class, so of course I was nervous. I lined him up differently and didn't lead out but maybe 3 feet, and guess what? He FLEW into the tunnel, no hesitation at all.. I was SO happy! The rest of his run was pretty clean as well, but me being a dummy and concentrating so hard on that discrimination, I forgot his weaves have become VERY weak on my left side, so we attempted them five times and he just could not get the last pole or his entry (one or the other each time), so we didn't get a Q, BUT his discrimination was let alone worth that run.. I was very happy!

Second and third runs were Standard. His first run, had that same tunnel/dog walk set up, and of course, since I was then no longer worried about that, more his weaves.. he finally GOT his weaves, but took that tunnel, when he was supposed to do the dog walk. Shoot! BUT, he got his weaves and his contacts were AWESOME, so still a success! Third run, was Standard 2.. and he got his weaves BUT, my handling was sloppy coming around a pinwheel of jumps and he jumped too wide and ended up backjumping an obstacle.. but again, his weaves and contacts were great, so it was alright. :)

Fourth run of the day was my FAVORITE class, which is Touch N Go. He did absolutely GREAT.. all tunnels and contact equipment. Not much to say about this, but he had a BLAST and we got our first Q in this class!

Fifth run of the day was Jumpers and aside from a slight mis step on my part (which almost cost me a sprained ankle!) the run was awesome! He came in second with a time of 21 seconds (course time was 30) - but he came in second to a ridiculously fast Aussie, who's time was 18 seconds, so I still was SO happy with his performance.

So the day ended on a great note for us, and we then headed back to my aunt's house where Tractor got a HUGE meal of pork neck bones, ground chicken and turkey hearts. After it was all digested, we got to spend 2 hours at the pool, where he got to swim his little heart out. We ended up coming home that night, so as he snoozes away on the couch right now.. he has no idea that in about an hour, we'll be going to his FAVORITE place ever.. (Gramma and Grampa's house) to get an ENTIRE day of fetch and swimming!

Our next event isn't until the weekend after next, but its a FUN FILLED weekend with agility AND dock diving, so stay tuned! (video from this agility trial will be uploaded in a couple days!)