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Zaku was entered in Starters Jumpers and Starters Standard FEO. This was Zaku's first time not running FEO at a trial and he was stunning. Couldn't be happier. The tunnel discrimination had me sweating, and I agonized over how to handle it to keep him from just blasting past me and getting an NQ. He restrained himself, though, and got baby's very first agility Q!

We were both hot and tired for our standard course so we weren't as connected as we should have been. Zaku got "stuck" in an off course tunnel (wiggling around inside with a shit-eating grin on his face), which used up most of our time. But we did successfully complete the A-frame, teeter, table, and hoop!

Rule updates from USDAA! Including a 8″/P4″ height for @wyrddogs!

additionally:

no spreads for Championship dogs below 12″ (new), no spreads at all in Performance (unchanged)

dogs may no longer jump higher than their measured height in Performance (good!!)

minimum age for competition lowered from 18 months to 15 months (terrible change, throw it in the trash!)

long jump length will be twice the jump height, rather than arbitrary lengths it used to be

Rapid Title Advancement - start competition at any level, so you can skip Starters and go straight to Masters if you want (also terrible, but people wanted this)

The boys and I had a little road trip yesterday and went to the local USDAA regionals! Kerm was entered in Novice Starters.

I will say that these USDAA courses are super long for someone with four inch long legs. Kermit was game though, and ran clean! He got many kisses and half a hot dog for his efforts.

It was quite warm and humid, with little shade and no wind. I dunked the boys to cool them off, and water-hating Kermit refused to come out. That's how you KNOW it's hot!

USDAA At Home Advanced/P2 Standard, from the 6/16-6/28 round. 

We actually ran the second course first and nailed it on the first try! Then the first course took us several tries over a few days, due to either one bar down or missing the a-frame contact. Finally got it clean with just one handling bobble (which Chandra had to yell at me for, lol) and we weren’t going to do it yet again to fix that. 

Pending approval, this will finish up Chandra’s PII title! On to PIII!

Now that we’re (hopefully) done with these Standard runs, we’ll play around in the Jumpers/Snooker/Gamblers classes for a while. Definitely gotta try to pick up some Jumpers runs since those tend to be the hardest for us with all those jumps to knock! And time to really retrain Chandra’s a-frame and get the deeper hits back.

USDAA at Home Advanced Jumpers part 2, also done on the first try with no bars! For real! 😲 Maybe I should buy a lottery ticket. 😂 (she's really not perfect at home even though she is perfect, lol)