Eight weeks now, and the first ones are leaving for their new homes.
This post is a bit late because I was too busy to make it. Before they left, I wanted to do a few things, like giving them a whole chicken leg!
They also got to visit their first agility field.
We took some family photos.
Yennefer and Zola decided to be super cute at one point.
We also visited a small private woodland with a river.
On Saturday, Zola and Yazou left my home to join their new families.
I didn’t expect to be able to run this competition, Kaïa was supposed to be pregnant by now. But Mother Nature gave me some extra time, and I’m glad I didn’t cancel.
The judge was Philip Müller-Schnick from Germany.
We kicked off the competition by successfully finishing this challenging course. We ended up in second place with 3 faults.
Disqualified on the jumping course, but so was everyone else in Intermediate.
The judge was Mark Fonteijn from the Netherlands.
I failed to properly control the tunnel entry. She made a few mistakes, but she understood the right turn after the weave pole. She hesitated a little, but did it correctly in the end.
She handled every “out” on this course really well. I helped her a lot, but they all went smoothly. Unfortunately, we got disqualified because I didn’t control her properly again, and she took the wrong tunnel.
The judge was Fons Van den Bosch from Belgium.
This was our second time in grade 3. I didn’t expect much, and that’s about how it went. Some exercises were good, others didn’t go well at all. We definitely need more training.
Poor Kaïa in the rain. Since she was in heat, I had to do the exercise alone (no other females in grade 3). She was confused about being left on her own and ended up lying down. It wasn’t a great experience, but I’m glad she stayed ‘calm’ and didn’t walk off.
Heelwork was never our strong exercise, and for some reason, she did the backward walk wrong.
Beside the tempo changes, this is a good exercise. She could stop faster for the “stand”.
Kaïa doesn’t really understand the concept of going forward to nowhere. This is a recurring issue, she’s searching for something to go to.
I’m a bit lucky, she goes forward to the left, where she needs to pick the dumbbell. If it was the right one, I would probably had trouble to make it happen.
She was focused on the last dumbbell and didn’t see the cone. I should have prepared her better before the exercise and make her search for the cone first.
This exercise was nearly perfect. She scans, found the good one, pick it up, and came back. A little tempo when she comes back, but that all.
She moved forward a bit, otherwise, good exercise.