Lonya and I had 2 days of CPE agility last weekend. She was again perfect, Q'ing in all 10 of her runs! She does really well in CPE, and is quickly moving up through the levels! This judge liked lots of tunnels! I also didn't notice how often Lonya slipped, it's been so dry that I think the grass wasn't the greatest, but it didn't seem to effect her overall!
Video of her runs is here...
Her first run on Friday was Level 3 Standard. Pretty straighforward run, about the only tricky part was keeping her out of the tunnel during the 180 and pulling her through those jumps to go to the tunnel. She Q'd for a 1st place!
Next was Level 4 Snooker. We did 5, 6, 7 then the close. There were A LOT of tunnels, and Lonya ran a bit tentatively. I think she was waiting for me to call her off the tunnels, instead of keep sending her to them! She missed the weave entry in the close (it was a tough one!) so didn't get all the way through. Still nice overall, and a Q for a 1st.
Level 4 Jackpot was next. I thought this one may break her Qing streak in Jackpot (she's never NQ'd in it that I can remember!), it seemed tough. It was traditional, with the send being the far side of a tunnel, out to a jump, wrap to a tunnel, then a final jump. The one thing that was different about this one, is that you were allowed to do something in the gamble after the buzzer, even if it wasn't correct. She didn't start judging until the dog went in the correct side of the tunnel (which I kind of forgot when Lonya was heading towards the wrong end of the tunnel, hence the touch of panic in my voice!). But, once I got her going, she did it very nice (and didn't go back in the wrong tunnel!). This was a Q for a 1st, and the last level 4 Q she needed...on to Level 5!
Level 3 Wildcard was next, it was a pretty good run, expect when Lonya almost chose the weave poles over the tunnel at the end! I really think she thought she had been doing too many tunnels, and that it couldn't possibly be the right choice! This was her last Level 3 Q.
The final run on Friday was FullHouse, Level 4. She Q'd with no problem (with a first), though in this run she DID take an extra tunnel! I was very happy with her dogwalk, the judge was really close to it and I wasn't sure if that would bother Lonya, but while she gave the judge a good look, she didn't seem to care that much.
Saturday we started with Round 1 of Level 3 Standard. It was a pretty good course, interesting with 2 teeters instead of an Aframe. A little bit of handling needed to get the last jump before a tunnel, but she did that very nicely. Q for a first.
Jumpers was next, Level 3. This was a tricky course, lots of handling needed along with several tunnels. She made her first error of the day here (even the judge commented on it as we left...she said "that was her first mistake of the weekend wasn't it?" Nice to know that judge saw how well she was doing!). The error was both our faults...I overhandled the 180 a bit, the second jump in it was back further than the 1st one and several dogs had missed it. But, I did say tunnel...and she went to the jump, so it was on both of us! Fortunately, we were still in Level 3, so we could Q with an offcourse! Q for a 1st, her last level 3 Q and her CL3-F title!
The second round of Level 3 standard was next. She ran this nicely, though she did break her stay! I messed up handling the last two jumps, causing her to slip pretty hard as she turned away from the teeter. (I did apologize to her!) This was a Q for a 1st, and her last level 3 Q needed, so also her CL3-R title!
Level 3 Colors was next. I choose the course with less tunnels, I thought it had a slightly better weave entry (both were pretty tough!). She did miss the entry, but fixed it in plenty of time to Q with a 1st.
Our final run was Level 5 Jackpot, non traditional. There were 3 distance challenges, you could do any or all of them, but had to do at least one. I had wanted to try them all, but Lonya had other ideas! It was late, had cooled off quite a bit...and Lonya was a nut!! We did get the two easier distance challenges (one was tunnel, jump, wrap back to the tunnel. The other was jump, far side of a tunnel, back to the jump) and got the contacts nicely. She Q'd with 53 points for a 3rd. But, we were only 2 points behind the first place dog, which was pretty exciting for me since we're now in the top level! And technically, this was her first leg toward her C-ATCH!
We'll do a couple more CPE trials over the summer, all night trials. They're all games only, so we'll need to hit a lot of Standards once fall trials start up again. But, she could be in level 5 in most of the games by then, which will be pretty darn cool!
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