we did International League too
I won't post the course, because Heather did. It was a challenging course, which nobody got. Pirate and I were not stellar, which was mostly me. I was actually super happy with how hard he tried, considering how stir crazy he should be by now. He did ditch me about halfway through the first run to try and raid a bucket of Charlee Bears which was in the ring. (I had no idea there was food there, and couldn't figure out why he didn't want to leave it). However, I'd really been messing up my handling at that point, so the initial "fine, I'm looking for food" was my fault.
Anyway, we had fun, maybe next week we'll do better. (though none of these courses look like good ones for us, and we're woefully out of practice)
One thing a little odd, hopefully nothing. I went to league straight from work, so I had brought all the dogs with me. Got them out to pee at my break, though it was super cold and windy in Troutdale, so it was a quick pee. Anyway, when we got to Daisy's place (which was much warmer), I let Pirate out in the field to run around a bit and empty himself. And he lifted his leg on something for a few minutes. After a while, I walked over to see if he was actually producing anything, because it was such an excessively long time to pee, and he headed off.
So, I didn't bother to walk him again before his first run (it wasn't that long between), and when we left the building after his run, he immediately hoisted a leg on a pole, and peed for another few minutes. This time, I could see that he was in fact peeing, and had a steady stream, but that was a LOT of time peeing. I hope he doesn't have something going on.
Mercy is not entered in International League, though experience would be good for her, because she still doesn't know contacts. I did bring her in after we were done with League, with Daisy's permission, and ran her over a few jumps and tunnels. Just for some experience in a different location. She tried to run off and see Daisy (who was in the ring) or any of the people outside the ring, but nobody would even look at her, so she came back and did some more agility with me. Just what I wanted for her! I didn't do much, and didn't really try any handling moves, I just wanted to work on the "play with me, not them" thing. Hopefully, we can keep doing this.
Anyway, we had fun, maybe next week we'll do better. (though none of these courses look like good ones for us, and we're woefully out of practice)
One thing a little odd, hopefully nothing. I went to league straight from work, so I had brought all the dogs with me. Got them out to pee at my break, though it was super cold and windy in Troutdale, so it was a quick pee. Anyway, when we got to Daisy's place (which was much warmer), I let Pirate out in the field to run around a bit and empty himself. And he lifted his leg on something for a few minutes. After a while, I walked over to see if he was actually producing anything, because it was such an excessively long time to pee, and he headed off.
So, I didn't bother to walk him again before his first run (it wasn't that long between), and when we left the building after his run, he immediately hoisted a leg on a pole, and peed for another few minutes. This time, I could see that he was in fact peeing, and had a steady stream, but that was a LOT of time peeing. I hope he doesn't have something going on.
Mercy is not entered in International League, though experience would be good for her, because she still doesn't know contacts. I did bring her in after we were done with League, with Daisy's permission, and ran her over a few jumps and tunnels. Just for some experience in a different location. She tried to run off and see Daisy (who was in the ring) or any of the people outside the ring, but nobody would even look at her, so she came back and did some more agility with me. Just what I wanted for her! I didn't do much, and didn't really try any handling moves, I just wanted to work on the "play with me, not them" thing. Hopefully, we can keep doing this.