This competition is used to select the dogs from Luxembourg that will go to the Agility World Championship, but it is also open to anyone who wants to participate.

28/03/2026

The judge was Laura Grosser from Germany.

I loved this course. I feel like I took all the right options and executed almost everything perfectly, except at the end. We ended up in 6th place.

This jumping course was a lot harder than the agility. My handling was less precise, and we failed several sequences.

I was also a bit worried because she limped slightly after the agility. The limp disappeared soon after, but it was still concerning. I asked the judge and friends around the ring to watch for any issues and stop me if needed.

The judge was Marleen Haeneefstingels from Belgium.

14/03/2026

My stress level was unusually high, no matter what I did, and Kaïa, being an emotional sponge, was also nervous and stressed. The result was catastrophic: I didn’t handle her properly, and she didn’t listen anyway.

15/03/2026

I took the time to get rid of the stress and get Kaïa out of the car at the very last minute to warm her up and run so she doesn’t stay in the ambient stress. I don’t really like this process, but it’s better not to have her fully stressed in the ring.

It didn’t change the results, as we finished this first weekend with nothing but disqualifications. But at least it felt like a normal competition.

The judge was Tamara Cuypers from Belgium.

Eliminated on the first course, she took the first hoop twice, which resulted in an immediate elimination.

I was worried from the beginning. Some parts of the course were a bit short, and Kaïa trains on much larger courses to prepare for the H2 level. She also recently had physiotherapy and was really eager to run now that her body is in order.

The physiotherapy worked too well, I guess. The effort she made to take the tunnel this way is unbelievable. We got 1 fault for this.

Yennefer

There was a little game at the end of the competition, so I took the opportunity to put the blue-eyed demon in a real situation.

She wasn’t disturbed by the spectators or anything. She behaved perfectly.