Regular Agility Compettitors?

[GreyhoundGirl]

Jenny and I were at a competition today. We didn't win. Oh well. We have another K9 Kup tommaro, YAY !!!

"Your girl is a Greyhound mix, right? You said she was like 30", she looks more like 20" "


Yes, she is a greyhound mix. I just measured her. She is just over 28" inches.(shoulders ) You can even tell by the photo. She goes right from my knees to my chest. I can't wait untill tommaro ! YAY !!!!

The only thing is... I'm competing against the dreaded. . . BORDERLINES !!!!! All PUREBRED ( thier team doesn't accept mixs ) border collies, that are very smart and super well-trained for agility.


My team of mix-matched breeds ( 3 aussies, 1 shetland sheepdog,1 husky mix, 1 greyhound mix ( guess who ? ! ) 1 boxer, 1 lab, and 1 bichon frisé mix. Sorry if I missed anyone !) have never beaten them. They are too good. My team has good jumpers ( Babe, Cricket ) good weavers ( Cutter, Molly ) fast dogs ( Jenny, Dean ) and good contacting dogs ( Kolby, Buddy ). But there team has good everything ! We can't compete with them.

Maybe tommaro we'll beat them. We'll show them you don't have to be pure bred. Show them that we make a good team, and we're just as good as all there specially-trained dogs. ( positively yet competitively) WE"LL SHOW "EM !

( consults dog, who is lying at feet. ) You will beat them, won't you, Jenny?

Then she gives me the look that clearly says " Yea, right, not in a million years ! " ( I won't even try ")


He He, like the way I wrote my post?

( it's just for fun, there are no titles or anything. But I thought it would be funny to write my post this way. Not the colour. It seems like I wrote it from a different point of view..... )

[.sarah]

[COLOR=Red]"Your girl is a Greyhound mix, right? You said she was like 30", she looks more like 20" "


Yes, she is a greyhound mix. I just measured her. She is just over 28" inches.(shoulders ) You can even tell by the photo. She goes right from my knees to my chest. I can't wait untill tommaro ! YAY !!!!

How tall are you?

[GreyhoundGirl]

Good question. I'll check.... 1 sec...were's that stupid measuring tape.....

About 64 inches... I think. When my mom gets home I'll get her to tell me.

[GreyhoundGirl]

WOO HOO !!!

Jennifer and I won 2nd today !!!!( Borderlines got 1st ) Yes! Oh yea, oh yea...( does happy-party dance )

It wasn't in standard, though... it was in snookers. We didn't get to finish, though... Because we got called off for doing the tire only once. Like that matters. I had to re-try the course because the first time the judge called me off for no reason. So he let me re-try. ( he's a nice person )

In standard I didn't actually do that well.... Jen took too long trying to get into a lie-down on the table. ( it was really hot !!! )( I also lost 5 points for touching the table to try and get her to lie down. )

I jumpers she did really well, too. Unfortunatly, so did the competition. So, she didn't place. Oh well.

I will post some pics of today later.

I also need some advice, though... Does anyone know a different way to train weaves? My girl isn't too good at them. ( she lost 20 points today for skipping the 12 weaves ) She will do off-set, no problem. But she won't do straight weaves, the one's that they use in competition.

I've got to train the weaves before the next competition. Please help !!

[binka_nugget]

We don't compete yet.. but I'm hoping we will very soon! We started taking agility classes not too long ago and he's already doing such a good job. All we really need to work on is the aframe.

I also need some advice, though... Does anyone know a different way to train weaves? My girl isn't too good at them. ( she lost 20 points today for skipping the 12 weaves ) She will do off-set, no problem. But she won't do straight weaves, the one's that they use in competition.

I've got to train the weaves before the next competition. Please help !!

Do you clicker train? I trained Kai to do weaves by clicking for just entering on the correct side. Then I started clicking for entering the correct side and taking a step towards the next pole, then clicking for entering the next pole, etc. His weaves are pretty solid now and it didn't take very long for him to get it.

[GreyhoundGirl]

Jenny is a timid dog. She's scared of the noise the clicker makes. Plus, my trainer doesn't do clicker training, so we don't really get a chance.

[binka_nugget]

You could still use the same method but say "Yes!" instead.