Sunday Standard
Warning- Emotional post! I haven’t posted anything today because last night I had to make the choice that every handler dreads. ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ Marty showed me yesterday that it’s getting close to time to retire him and this is officially his last Nationals. So today I made the choice to focus completely on him and enjoy these last 3 courses without the interruption of Facebook until after we ran the last class. We started today with Snooker and we Qualified in that. Standard was our 2nd run of the day. I wasn’t going to expect much from him since I know the weaves are bothering him the most. Before going into the ring I asked him if he had it in him for one last set of 12 weave poles. If he didn’t, I was ok with that, if he did, then I am truly blessed. I told him no matter what, this would be his last ever Standard run and I would switch his category to Specialist where we no longer have to do Standard class and 12 weaves. My perfect boy made sure to give me everything he could! While they were slow, he gave me all 12 weaves and we Qualifed in Standard! This video is of his very last Standard run (I even spent the extra money to have the official video). Now we await the results of his Colors class that we just finished. I’m pretty sure he also Qualified in that, but awaiting official confirmation. I will post an official wrap up of our time here at Nationals sometime in the next week. Official photos will be available in 2-3 weeks.
Friday FullHouse
Our FullHouse run. Our mission: get in, get the minimum number of points to get a Qualifying Score, and get out.…. Mission accomplished!!!
Friday Jumpers Run
A great Jumpers run on a very technically difficult course. A lot of teams struggled to get through the opening 10 obstacles. This resulted in our second Qualifying Score of the day.
We called it close, but we ran clean and came in just under the wire to Qualify in Standard this morning! Love my munchkin! He’s such a wonderful agility partner!