Not So Delinquent

Delinquent Dogz today. Sunny day and nice company, including Helen's new baby Belle with the big long legs - what a sweetheart she is.
Maisie ran a nice clear in the agility and did well in her other runs to say I was pretty crippled with a bad neck - eased a little by a massage which was lovely but left the world seeming rather surreal!! She's obviously more relaxed than at big shows as she tackled the A-scale with much less worry and hesitation.
& Tim had a little run in the baby class - we're sooo not ready for public appearances yet but hoped it would be a positive bit of training, and it was! The boy is so confident in himself and wasn't fazed in the slightest by being in a different environment. He did his startline wait, his contacts were rock-solid perfect and he did some really good bits of jumping. I reckon it was the worst sort of course for a speedy inexperienced baby - big straight lines, but actually he did really well and sent on beautifully in bits. & when it started to go a little pear-shaped I just looped him round and made up a bit of course that we could succeed at, and so kept it really positive and happy. And the thing that I was concerned about didn't happen - he really kept his focus on me (apart from a very minor bum waggle at the judge) and didn't bog of to say HELLOOOOO, I LOVE YOU!!! to anyone at all. What a super-good puppy!!! :o) So now I'm slightly less nervous about his first 'official' outing at NAWS next week ...
& Billy spent a lot of time looking handsome and bumming treats.