Adventures in Training the Beagles

Conformation–12/19/2010

This is a video from the day after we won our point.

Didn’t go as well, not sure why.

Dulce's First Conformation point

We had a fun day. She showed the best she has shown for me. We were the only 12-18 and took first place. We went back in the ring and took Winner's Bitch.

The back in the ring. The male took Beat of Winners and we got Best of Opposite Sex. There were three specials, all males.

It was quite fun.

We had gone to Mississippi to make a major and to visit my family. My birthday is Sunday.

The major broke and two bitches who only needed majors pulled - leaving us with a single and our first point.

We will be showing tomorrow and I plan to go to Glen Rose and show both days.

My plan is to stay close to home and she what we can.

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Good conformation weekend

I got what I wanted this weekend – some time in the ring to figure things out.  And that happened this weekend.  We were the only ones in 12-18 months both days, so that put it back in the ring a second time each time, and gave me a chance to figure the whole thing out.  Every other time, we’ve come in second in the class and we were done.

I think we are both moving well in the ring, but we still have some work to do on the stacking thing.  Especially on the table.  I did a lot of my less is more, and that helped the stress level.  

I’m entered next week in Jackson, and I’m going to enter Glen Rose.  Right now, the plan is to enter any show that we can go to without getting a hotel room (though I’m thinking about staying in Glen Rose) and which doesn’t conflict with agility.  There is one weekend where we do have that problem, and we’ll just have to see.

Breeder got what she wanted – her beagle finished her championship today.  So all is good.

Dulce took Winner's Bitch

I have been wanting an opportunity to just showy dog and not have to compete and I got that today

It was good because we got to show in our class and then we got to compete (yeah right) with the Specials.

The next three opportunities all majors. Tomorrow will be good practice again because we are "competing" with our breeder who has a bitch who just needs 2 points and the major.

Next weekend we are in Jackson and it has two majors. Since the breeder isn't coming and she likes the judges i feel that not only do we have a chance but that we will know what we are doing.

Lately no one has noticed we were in the ring so I must be doing okay. Today the judge said she moved well but was being silly on the table and we are working in that. Tomorrow I plan to put her on the table, walk her to the edge and then pose her.

Mildred doesn't think that will work but we'll see.

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Darn - No Christmas Qs

We had nice runs all weekend - see yesterdays posts.

JWWs - missed by one second. @alfredtwo will appreciate my off by one whine. Also had a refusal at the weaves.

Standard - probably took off to early and landed in the middle of the jump. I was really worried she was hurt. Ran up the plank of the teeter and found she couldn't do it .

Boy is it cold!

Sorry to see the agility year is over but we play again in January.

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Heading to McKinney for last agility trial of the year

Still need dogs and shoes.

Four layers of clothing - check
Dog treats - check (forgot yesterday)
Blood sugar meter - check (forgot yesterday )

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This does not make for fun agility.

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Standard was better

No q. But she did everything-refusal on the teeter. Way slow though.

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JWW - not so good

Weird as she stopped and peed before we ran but she wasn't moving at all and a dump about 2/3rds through. A real hard solid one.

Novice FAST–December 3

I really focused on keeping Macy’s attention and as a result, we had a beautiful run from the 9 point tunnel, 3 point jump, 7 point Teeter to the wrong end of the tunnel.  At that point she got stressed because

a) I kept trying to get her to the right end of the tunnel

b) I couldn’t move forward because of the line

BUT until then she was fabulous!  And was just going too fast to her me call her off the tunnel.  Fast is good.