none of them get to live with my Squashies so they can all eff right the eff off.
Darn right! I love it!
That video of Pirate always cracks me up. I'm always watching thinking "Boy that's a great dog walk. Boy that's a great a-frame. Oh...goodbye, Pirate."
My most epic of epic agility moments sadly was never caught on film. It was with Meg (as all epic agility moments must be; Gusto will never reach her level of weird). Great, fun, 2 day outdoor trial. Big crowd, end of the day Saturday, the starters/advanced ring was done, all that was left to run was Steeplechase. So of course, everyone has their chairs pulled up there, the jello shots are a-flowing (hey, it is USDAA after all). I'd come down later in the day and only signed up for steeplechase on Saturday, because we were chasing PIII gamblers Qs and that was Sunday. And then I walked the course.
Oh, hello chute.
Meg, for those of you who don't know, is "quirky". Among other things, at that point in time my Masters level dog was going through a period of chute phobia. That's nice normal chutes. Not this monstrosity.
I figured it's steeplechase, there are no refusals, just run faster. We got to the chute, she ran around it. I went with my plan and stood there, holding my position. Meg kept coming back to me as she should, then running around the chute again. She circled it 3 or 4 times, jumping over the fabric. I was trying to decide what to do next when she decided the obvious answer was to stand on top of the roof. She stood on top of it, nubbin going as fast as possible, so pleased that she'd found a way to interact with the chute in a way that didn't scare her. The crowd was quite literally rolling on the ground. People still bring it up when they see Meg.
And the next day, of course the gamble involved the chute.
Suffice to say we don't trial there anymore, despite the fact that we started constructing things like this during practices:
So there, you can't possibly be more of a laughing stock than we were. You are now safe to trial anywhere, with any dog.