Weekend Agility Fun!

As I mentioned yesterday 

Mom & I went to our first agility trial

The rules for Tea Cup Agility are - First Have Fun 

 Do the course in the correct order 

and under a certain time.

Refusals are not penalized - they just eat up time

You can earn a title in Games and in Standard 

at three levels, beginner, intermediate and expert

 The Standard courses are easier for beginners, 

the game courses are the same for everyone 

but the beginners are allowed more time. 

Saturday we entered a game called Impossible Tunnels

When we saw the course we thought OMD!!!

This is the course map - it started with two jumps and then we had to do the tunnels in the numbered order

We got through all the tunnels in the correct order 

but I stopped after #6 and looked at mom for a treat

 she convinced me to keep going. 

Then I got to #10 and stopped again. 

She really had to do some talking to get me going again 

we finished but over the time allowed

Sat. afternoon we tried our first Beginner Standard course

We made it through the course in good time but I went past a jump and then came back over it in the wrong direction

Sunday we did two standard courses

Here are some pictures from our first run

It was cold and very windy 

I did some crazy running around in between obstacles

I went over one jump twice

But handled the teeter just fine

can you see me on the dog walk??

And we were done - but - over the designated time

We did one more standard course and I made it through the whole course without a mistake but we used up a lot of time when I did not want to get on the table. 

The last run of the trial was a game course called

The Halloween Haunt

It was a challenging course of jumps and tunnels

We made it through with no mistakes 

and 2 seconds under time!!! 

Our first qualify in agility!

In Tea Cup Agility you don't have to have a qualifying score to get a placement ribbon

Placements are given for each jump height division

I brought home 2 blue ribbons in Games 1, 12 inch

(the green is my qualifying ribbon)

and 3 red ribbons in Standard Beginner 12 inch.

We will have all winter to work on things, 

such as mom learning to be a good handler 

to better direct me around the course

We are the PugRanch Kids

Hazel & Mabel