NAWS Nov

It was a VERY soggy day & the ginger thingy got his first rosettes!!! First a errrrmm clear-ish round in the jumping, then a sooooper one in the agility - actually we did throw in a bit of a twirl before the last jump, but the rest of it was very fluent. His contacts were brill!!! I left him on them, went off for a stroll around, then went back and told him how marvellous he was before releasing, so wasn't at all going for time, but taking that into account his time did look very respectable. What an exciting boy!! And his new fellow ginger baby buddy, Mac, came second in the class, awww!
Maisie had a good day too - clears in both classes, though there seemed to be an outbreak of clearrounditis, so not in the places this time. Her agility runs were funny - did a safe-ish clear first run and made sure she got her contacts, but there was a bit where you were on a fast run down a straight line of jumps to the finish, but had to pull them off and left over a jump at 90-degrees, pull round the wing, and then back into the run for the finish. First run I signalled the left and she just stopped dead (from a fair pace) and gave me a Paddington-hard-stare! Bless her, she then hopped over the jump from her standstill and so wasn't faulted. I was debating whether to do her second run but really wanted to try again to handle that bit better for her, so she was flying down the line again and I made a huge exaggerated left-turn and kept running myself around the corner to try to drive her on into a wide turn, but she stopped dead again!! It could've been because they were jumping towards the side of the dogwalk? But really I think she'd just so locked onto the straight line she couldn't quite believe I was pulling her off it. The look on her face really made me chortle, LOL! Being a dreadful handler I gave her her own way and spun her round and just did the fly down the straight line to a happy eliminated finish :o)

Billy was disgusted at the weather and wouldn't get out of the car till lunchtime and even then tippytoed carefully around the puddles down the lane then got back in the car and hrrrmpphed. Such a delicate little flower but he's my hero anyway.