Contacts!

Pretty boring, I know- but I'm just so excited! :D :D :D :D

From this:

/cringegrimacecry

…to this:

/party

Creepy, worrieeeeeed Charlie to ZOMG CONTACT Charlie in just under two weeks. Still lots and lots of work to do- those poles marking the ends of the dog walk are an integral part of said work- and we have yet to try this out on a full sized, proper dog walk because it's decided to rain only on a Monday night for the past four weeks which totally fricks with our agility classes. But I'm hopeful for clear skies tonight and an opportunity to take our auto 2o2o on the road.

He's solid with it on rocks and obscure contact zones at our commando classes, so fingers crossed he doesn't over think things and we have a nice, smooth transition.

But yes :) I just couldn't resist sharing, because I'm so proud of my little noodle nut dog. We've still got even more work to do on retraining the see saw- I need to convince my dad I can't possibly live without a see saw and two height changeable tables before we can progress with that- and our running a frames need to be more running and less springing over the yellow like it's covered in some contagious disease. But I'm optimistic, especially now obedience has taken a back seat until next year at the very earliest, that we could be ready to enter back into the agility ring by the end of this year. ADAA has a comp at WAAG down the Gold Coast in the middle of November, so we may be ready for a not-for-comp run in that. We'll just have to wait and see how things go.

Until then we've got good old jumpers with CCCQ to keep us going :P

Speaking of jumpers our next two trials are this coming Saturday, the 21st, at Logan and then after a hectic following weekend (28th/29th) with demos and whatnot for our training club at a school fair and our local festival carnival thingo, we're at Durack on the 5th of June for another trial.

Our Logan runs are excellent jumpers, open jumpers and novice snooker- I actually have a slightly better idea of what I'm doing when it comes to snooker now, so this one might go a bit better than our last attempt where we kind of butchered the closing sequence. And at Durack we've got two excellent jumpers runs, another novice snooker run, our first excellent gamblers run (excited for this one, looooooove gamblers- but excellent can have contact obstacles in the gamble, which worries me a little bit, eh) and our first excellent strategic pairs run. Even better is the pairs is once again with sparky Tarki the spunky vizsla :D Charlie and I caught up with our final two Qs and our SPD title at a games trial while his owner was away so happy faces all around now we can have each other as regular pairs partners again.

I should have video of our runs for both trials since my dad's coming along and as long as he remembers to actually press the button to start the camera, it should work out fine.