Today my partner, Joe Hopper, and I entered our fourth agility competition and scored a remarkable two Double Q’s. What is a Double Q? It is when you have two qualifying runs on the same day. We ran both Saturday and Sunday and Double Q’d on both days.
Did you notice those funny letters after my name? They represent titles I have achieved in my agility runs. NA means that I have successfully completed Novice Agility Standard. OAJ means after completing my Novice Agility Jumpers with Weaves I went on to complete my Open Class Jumpers with Weaves. Now I continue to compete in Open Class for Standard Agility and Excellent A Class for Jumpers with Weaves.
On Friday I took a first place blue ribbon at the Lyons Township Dog Training Agility Meet in Villa Park, Illinois in my first run of the day in Jumpers with Weaves. Since that completed my third qualifying run in JWW, I received my title and was able to move up to Excellent A class. Here is the JWW run:
Later that day I took second place (and a very colorful red ribbon) in Standard Class. Joe got a bit confused as I went in the Weave Poles and started thinking he was back on the JWW course from earlier in the day. I was able to point the way and we still came in second. I was a good sport about it (as required by the AKC Code of Sportsmanship) and we had fun. Here is the Standard run:
Today we were back for two more competitions. It was my first time in Excellent Jumpers, but I was ready for it and took first place. Here is the Excellent JWW run:
Then is was off to Standard Class where I am still in Open. It was a clean run and I took first place here as well. Here is the Standard run:
Then home we went where I celebrated with my new squeaky ball prize while the boys celebrated with Ramp Pizza and my 12 blue (and one red) ribbons.
