Lune

Well, no green dog but a sludgey coloured one instead ...

& she smelt far worse than she looked!!
But she was forgiven coz she went on to take 7th in the Agility (goodness knows how - it was an awful run and on 5F!!) and a nicer run in the jumping to take 8th - that was more pleasing as it was quite a big, open, un-Maisie course and she actually beat several dogs on time - often we are, or nearly, the slowest clear round. And the day had started really badly when she was freaked by the arena - I'd forgotten how noisy and frantic it was in there too - and then before her first run she was nobbled by another dog, no harm done thankfully though. We had a longish break before the last class of the day and I hadn't really intended running that one - no point overfacing her and she hadn't seemed 100% herself earlier somehow, but I walked the course and it was a straightforward one I thought she might enjoy so decided to give it a go. I planned and expected to pull her out if she didn't seem up for it over the first couple of jumps, and even warned the lady behind us in the queue to get ready to be on the line early, but Maisie really took off and thoroughly enjoyed the run!! She took me by surprise but I decided to just leg it with her, resulting in a couple of poles down and I barrelled her into the weaves in a way that doesn't work so she missed the entry LOL! Really good fun run though :o)
Then the highlight of the day came in Helen running big Jock in the anysize class. We managed to get him to the arena nice and calmly and off he went ........ brilliant!!!...... He worked so well and almost ran clear, but for just adding an extra jump to the course. & he was happy and relaxed, no suggestion of charging off and woofing at anyone. What a good lad!!
Again I wondered why those shows at Myerscough are so good - the arena is noisy and can get crowded, the tannoy is beyond crap, the exercise field not great, the location nothing to write home about, but they're always really good shows?! And another strange thing - I saw several people there I've not seen since there last year - where do they all go for the summer?..