Plan

We're at Durack on Sunday- earliest trial I've ever been to, I think. Vetting's at seven thirty, and if we want to get a good park we'll need to get there an hour or so beforehand, and it's a half hour or so drive up there, so... Early start. Dad's not overly impressed, but he'll manage.

This is my second last trial as a junior handler and after triple jumpers in July I can go to comps without my supervisor being present. I've felt like a bit of a burden on occasion- especially lately, with one of her dogs out of action for the foreseeable future and the other still too young to compete (her debut's hopefully at triple jumpers). So it's been a case of her still needing to be there without a dog to trial because I'm wanting to trial. She says she doesn't mind, but I still feel guilty- without her I wouldn't have been able to even start trialling- or even continue training at all- until I was eighteen, so she's done so much for me and is an absolutely amazing person ♥

But anyway. The new plan. We've got five runs on Sunday. We'd have had six, but I'm still not attempting novice agility for a while. We've got consistency on the dog walk, and Charlie's surprised me with generalising on the seesaw (so can't wait until the height for that is lowered, though- so much safer), but the a frame is a big issue we haven't even begun to touch yet. I'd be very surprised if we got back into ANKC agility before the beginning of next year. I still want to try it all out at some ADAA comps in a couple of months, but again- none of that happens until we sort out Mister Can't Touch The Yellow on the a frame. I'm back to tossing up between running and 2o2o on there again, and I'm back to not having any idea what I want to try.

Tangent alert! Back on topic.

So we have five runs: couple of first attempts thrown in there for good measure. We've got the two runs in JDX, which I'm optimistic about if I can get Charlie to have a startline stay again. In addition we have our third shot at novice snooker, as well as the two first attempts: first shot at running a GDX course, and first shot at SPDX with Tarki and his mum.

I want to try out using stay instead of wait again and see how that goes, as well as try some acupressure massage on Charlie before his runs to try and settle him a bit more. There's this one with their necks and ears that I was trying out last night and he ended up leaning into me so much he slid onto the floor. So yes: try some stays and some poking my dog and we'll see how things turn out.