Whimzy NA

Tough day to be showing! It was so cold, and windy and just annoying weather in general. Although it was quite interesting to show Whimzy at her first outdoor show. Clearly we still need some work on it; she was a little more excited than I would have liked to see. Happy with our novice standard run, got our NA title! The crowd actually went silent when she left the start line, and in the raw video the gate says “Wow, that’s a fast dog.” I would have to agree with them ;) She came over the aframe like a bullet, and then hit a gust of wind on the dog walk that spooked me, but she held on fine. Open jumpers was hairy. The course was by no means in our favor. I’m not yet confident enough to leave her in the weaves to go for front crosses, let alone weaving into a corner. So without the fronts I was forced into two less then pretty rear crosses. The first one was fine, just slightly wide. But on the second one I opened my big mouth and said back just and she took off. So of course the bar came down. Shame really I think if she didn’t fault I would have held on in the end longer then I did. Really towards the end of the course she just hit a slight YAHOOO! moment.
Considering she has only trained twice this week, I thought Whimzy handled the show fairly well. Goal for the next two weeks is to set up some open/excellent courses, particularly jumpers, and run her little butt off!! Need to get the hang of some slightly longer courses before I throw her back in the ring. I’m sure we will get there, just gonna take some work. For a fifteen month old with 2 titles and a solid foundation that is holding up time and time again I am incredibly pleased.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdGvZtrvFpA&list=UUdSVfN8AoSbf822LdbpZrDw&index=1&feature=plcp

Well gtg, time to watch the Big Bang Theory with Bazinga!