We had a busy Rally weekend in Coventry, CT. The Nathan Hale Obedience club put on their yearly obedience and rally show. Its a nice little show, small, held in a local high school. They always have nice judges, low key, low pressure.
We are trying for Pip's RAE Title. This means we need to do 10 successful trials of entering and qualifying in both Advanced and Excellent on the same day/in the same trial. This was our first attempt. Pip's excellent run was okay, our big errors were handler (me!) errors. Considering I teach Rally classes, I should have known better but think I was blown away somewhat by the first exercise which was the Offset Figure 8 exercises, which consists of 2 cones and 2 food bowls with toys sitting in them that you have to go around. Challenging as they sit on the start line staring out at the bowls! But we got thru it and qualified. Pip's Advanced run was much better. She received scores of 84 and 98 respectivally with a nice second place in Advanced.
This was also Lucy's debut in AKC Rally. She spent much of the time giving me puzzled looks as to why we were doing this and when was the fun going to begin! We made it around and qualified with a score of 88. It was an interesting experience. Lucy did a cute high 5 and bow as we were leaving the ring and got nice laughs from the audience.
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