Bryce Jayda and I haven’t been posting because we’ve been busy at Fall agility trials.

Two weeks ago was Skyline’s AKC trial. Bryce had a pretty easy weekend – I just moved him to preferred (he’s had some injuries to his front in the last year and I’m much more comfortable jumping the little guy at 12″ these days) so he had to go back to novice. Pretty much cake for him – he was 1st place and Qualifying in 3 out of 4 runs. The 4th, he inexplicably bailed off the teeter early – could have been my position, the path the judge was taking or something about it he just didn’t “like” – or all 3. Just one of those things.

Here’s a cute photo of Bryce bouncing out of a tunnel … don’t you love the little “smile” on his face?

Jayda had a really rough start – she didn’t want to come out of her crate Saturday! I mean … digging in her heels and REFUSING to come out of her crate. Lots of avoidance behaviors from her on her Saturday courses, poor girl. Sunday I spent a lot of the day just coaxing her out of her crate. Her first run I did a “mental health” run – took her over 3 jumps and a tunnel in a straight line from the start to the finish, thanked the judge and left. That paid off with a very nice Qualifying run in jumpers that afternoon :)! She earned a 3rd place to Bryce’s 1st.

I’ll post the jumper’s course when I get a chance – it was a very easy, fun course – I’m not as surprised that my dogs did well on it as I am at the number of dogs who failed to qualify.