P got a Q in Novice FAST yesterday. I decided to try for a Q and see if I could get up to Open FAST where there's 12 poles, so we went for it. His a-frame wasn't an appropriate contact but he got in the yellow. Weave poles were excellent, all six of them. He got straight into the weaves even though I had a crappy angle set up to send him in. Nice job baby dog. Send was no trouble at all, novice is novice.
JWW had two dropped bars (my fault) and he got his weaves. Took all three attempts but on the third attempt he got all 12 of them for me. Good boy. Standard was not good.
Georgie was super close to her first AXJ leg. Got the weaves and also did a nice backside jump for me even though we've never practiced that, then came off a jump. Not sure why, will have to watch the video. Still a really good run for the baby dog. Not so good in standard, didn't finish her weaves and didn't get ANY of her contacts I don't think, including the teeter.
Georgie got sick later that night. Then Payton woke me up at 5:30 sick in his crate. We decided to go ahead and go to the trial instead of just going straight home and just see how the dogs were feeling. P went first in FAST... completely broke his start line stay. I didn't even take a single step forward, he just ran away from me. I gave him a shot and tried to get him on the a-frame... he went over it, jumped off, then I stood there like Stuart told me waiting for him to come back and correct himself. He didn't and didn't and didn't... so I told him to lie down. No down. Told him again, lie down... he did a down and I said "thank you" to the judge and took him off the course.
I felt horrible for it. I was so mad at myself and upset and I felt disgusting inside. I know there are a lot of people who wouldn't have even let him play after breaking his stay. And I know there are lots of people who would have done the same thing I did, without even giving him a shot to correct himself at the contact. But I still felt horrible about it.
JWW for P was next. He held his stay this time, had a fairly nice run, dropped a bar (my fault again) and only needed two attempts at the weaves to get all 12.
I was still debating running Georgie, and then Payton got sick again. But he acted like he was fine after that and it appeared he had just completely emptied his stomach, and I asked his breeder and we both agreed I should run him and just see how he felt, and if he acted like he wasn't feeling good to pull him. Georgie wasn't really acting right so I was leaning toward not running her, plus she's not really stupid-resilient like P, so I kind of figured I wasn't going to run her. Time came for Standard and he was running pretty nicely for me, seemed quite happy and was fast as usual. Went into the weaves the first time around but popped them toward the end, did all 12 the second time. And then five obstacles from the end of the course he suddenly hit the breaks and got sick on the course. Guhhhhhh. So there would have been no running Georgie anyway because she was supposed to run two dogs after him anyway, and I was outside with Payton trying to take care of him.
So after that I just got everybody in the car and left, didn't even consider if I should run Georgie in excellent JWW because Payton just suddenly started being really really sick. He was shaking and drooling. He rode home out of his crate so we could watch him and I actually pulled over about 30 minutes from home because he threw up all over the backseat. Poor guy. We are home and he got a bath because he was dirty and stinky, and now he is just laying around looking pitiful. Georgie is laying in her crate feeling pitiful as well. On top of that one of Auggie's relatives (Pepper's uncle) also came to the show sneezing blood, and an Auggie half-bro was having some strange tummy issues of his own prompting an e-vet visit to check for bloat or a blockage. Not a good weekend for the fam overall. The place we went is actually a pressurized dome so my mom was wondering if maybe our dogs were getting decompression sickness of some kind? Because she said she started feeling sick this morning as well.
Not sure what to make of the end result of the weekend. Payton's weaves actually seemed to have improved over the course of the weekend, so we'll see. Also he has a FAST Q now so yay? It was nice to get a ribbon for the first time since May. Also that was a pretty fun run with him, so it was nice to have a super fun run with my dog. Up and down emotionally and I have lots of laundry to do with two sick dogs. Next trial in two weekends... we'll just have to see what happens. sigh.
) but the rest was good. We did get two games Qs so now she finished her TG3. Now we are working on her TMAG, which needs 10 games 3 Qs.
