YABTC

I decided a long time ago that we would go to Youngstown, OH to the YABTC (Youngstown All Breed Training Club) AKC Trial. This weekend was out LAST CHANCE to earn points to qualify for AKC National Championships...too bad we already earned the points and QQ's :-)

The drive was looooooooooooooong friday..but saturday was so worth it :-) We earned double Q number 22 and 17 points! Watch the video...his first run (JWW) had AMAZING WEAVES!!! Standard was iffy-the teeter was L-O-U-D.

Sunday was kind of a bust. Fun JWW course, 8 points...nice start. Then he got nervous and standard was a disaster...watch how we self distruct at the end (the easy part of a VERY tough course).

Point total: 465 (of the 750 needed for MACh)

Double Q total: 22 (of the 20 needed for MACh haha)

Thank you, Jumpin4Agility!

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...her name is Hannah. She's AMAZING with photo collages :) I proudly display mine on my old site so I thought it was time to move them here.

<---Leland and Bandit will be a USDAA pairs team someday (we hope) so Hannah got the graphic ready early... :-)

^ Leland's got his own graphic for Nationals!!!!!!!!!!

Bedlington Terrier Trial

Leland and I trialed...again!

We needed 1 double Q and ten points a day. Leland pulled through HUGE: got TWO double Q's and 35 points :) I thought we needed 45 for AKC National's qualification. I'm good at advanced math, like calculus, but I can't add apparently. I miscalculated and after satuday our point total (only for Nationals points) was 402!!!! YAY! LELAND AND I GET TO GO TO NATIONALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sunday was another QQ and 16 more points :) YAY!!

So...Leland now was 440 points for MACh! My goal is 500 by the end of the year. This would leave us needing only 250 points from January to April. Way do-able.

Next weekend is our weekend off, followed by finals for me, then Youngstown the weekend of Thanksgiving :)

We WILL have pictures and videos from Youngstown. We failed to get any this weekend :(

QCDTC

Another sunday night and another trial must me another update :)

Leland and I (and mom) drove to Cincinnati to Queen City Dog Training Club's AKC Trial. It's a fun little trial: 1 ring, 2 judges, Excellent classes only in the morning/Novice & Open levels in the afternoon. Usually we don't earn points at this location...it's loud of crowded. But not this weekend!!

We started off STRONG: 11 points in jumpers, 14 in standard saturday. Oh, and DOUBLE Q NUMBER 19!!! LE was fast, fast, fast!! I really appreciated those who noticed and told me how fast Leland was :D

Sunday...ugh. Going for the final double Q for MACh (don't worry, we "only" have 393 points of the 750...) we get 11 points in jumpers again (yay!) and then...he misses his weave entry in standard. Big stinkin' heart breaker. No final double Q :( and worst yet, only 36 points for the weekend. We were aiming for 40. These little misses are going to add up and keep us from MAChing at PCA :(

But...I did get asked if I would like to run MACh6 Zesta :) OF COURSE!!!!!!!! So we ran, and I think we (and by we, I mean she) looked awesome. My handling was not too bad either. That is, until I pushed her into a tunnel instead of the dogwalk. Ahhhhh! I messed up a MACh6 border collie, that's pretty darn hard to do. We'll get um next time, though :)

Delaware Ohio Kennel Club

Leland did it again! We went to the Delware Ohio Kennel Club Trial in Grove City. Leland needs ~20 points per weekend to acheive our goal of MACh in April (and about $1500! AH!)

We went to DOKC with 16/20 double Q’s and 331 points. We left the trial with 21 points and TWO more double Q’s! We’re down to needing only TWO double Q’s for MACh! Yay! Too bad we need 398 points. But that’s beside the point right now...I try not to think about that part.

Leland was WONDERFUL! We started the weekend shakey-our ExB standard run was SLOW SLOW SLOW and LE almost jumped off the teeter (darn teeter problems! Thanks, Cleveland...NOT!) We got 0 points...we were 0.24 seconds overtime...luckily they round down for the Q. But in jumpers we got 5 points on a VERY nice course. Sunday Leland CHARGED the teeter along with the weave poles, a-frame, and barely made the dog walk down contact. ELEVEN POINTS! Yay! Jumpers was a niiice course-but I handled it horribly. Luckily my awesome little dog did what I said and we Q’d with 5 points-the 5 points we needed for our goal. 21 points this weekend! And...2 of the 4 last QQ’s we need for MACh!!

Total point count: 352/750
Total double Q count: 18/20