Boy was it warm, at least not as warm as the regional last year, but warmer than my preferred 65-70 degrees. Thank God no rain though! We had four dogs running on three different teams. Noisy Boys with Beep, Nub and Sly, Les Femme Fatal, Dally and Nessa and Zipper on Zipper and Bucky's Epic Adventure. No DAM Q's for any of us:( Zipper came the closest and was near the cut off. Noisy Boys stayed consistently in the high teens and Nessa and Dally were near the cutoff until relay. Oh well... another excuse to run with friends on teams again!
Beep had some great moments. We hung it together to make it through a tough standard course. We had a couple of knocked bars, but didn't E and that was unusual. He had some super tight turns and was listening, but a bar here and there was still a problem. I don't think it is a lack of jumping knowledge, but he just wants to get there faster or I do something stupid while he is jumping. USDAA Beep is always way high as the energy is high. The cool thing is that we used to fly to pieces when he was wound up like that, but now we can actually remain a team, so it's coming together, just a bit more fine tuning. There are still moments when he chooses the correct line and just booked, leaving me in the dust. Good grief! His times were consistently at the top even with a spin or making him hold contacts so I can catch up:) Most of our runs were respectable with the exception of our zero Snooker. Knocked first bar, then took a jump. He missed a weave pole entry in relay, but our other team mate had already E'd so I didn't take him back.
Zip had some moments of brilliance. He is also a little higher at a USDAA trial:) He's getting there and did pretty good for a baby dog on some tough courses. Whew! Nessa also looked good. She did a weirdo flip the wrong way out of a tunnel, then went back in in jumpers and E'd. Meg and Nessa rocked Performance 22" Snooker and won. Yahoo!
Nub and Zach had a good Snooker run too. Zach loves charging around like a ding dong racking up points:) They also had a nice jumpers run and did a good job helping out the team.
Here are some pictures from Joe Camp...
I thought Nub was a two foot hopper, but this looks more like single striding.
I don't know many little dogs that single stride. Joe got two photos of him weaving like this.



