Occupied myself with a weekend of agility Bank Holiday just past.  At the age of ten I wasn't expecting much from Hector, but he did me proud in as much that he stayed in the ring and did not humiliate me too much.

First class I entered he lost concentration a bit and waffled enough to get us eliminated but at least I did not have to scream at him and only issued one "bugger" at him.  The second class entered I pushed him out of the entry to the weaves.  Our weaves have always been a down point as I am not good at them.  It wasn't third time lucky either as I forgot which way to go, which I was so annoyed about as although we would not of won we would of had a nice clear round if it I had not picked those five faults up.

Considering we have not entered anything since October last year and only been to one training session since, I think Hector let me off very lightly.  It was also open cl assess of grade 1-7 dogs so maybe a bit out of our reach anyway.  I know my sticking point has always been winding him up enough to get him going, but I have spent so long calming my Weims down it is a hard habit to break as you know how once you wind they up it is hard to find the off switch LOL.

Weather was ok(ish)  bad wind on the Saturday gave me a bad earache and I felt like a big pink pimple on the scenery when it was my turn to do the poles as I was sitting with my pink hoody up and my face all pink from the wind.  The judges were from the UK as were some competitors.  All a nice bunch of people.  One thing that stood out for me was this tiny little Italian Greyhound that was standing waiting to go in all shaking and I thought how cruel as it did not look like it wanted to be there.  How wrong I was, it flew round the ring leaving a show of paws in its wake.  Brilliant to watch

On the Tuesday they had a class on the beach which was nice to see as they used to take agility on the beach until the powers that be introduced their draconian anti dog laws.  Hector just dug holes and ran off trying to swim, hence the reason I did not enter him in it as the beach is for digging and swimming according to my Wontis.  Tilly pulled a real good one and took off after a horse that came from behind me and which I did not hear.  Got loads of comments as to how fast she was and the rider brought her back for me as he said she started getting distressed when she realised she did not know where she was.  Nearly had a heart attack trying to run after her to get her back as if I could keep up with horse and hound.

The waiting between classes can still be trying for me and the dogs as it is something we still not used to, having come into agility at a late age.  So long as Hector enjoys it I will persevere because he can still pull a good round and win a pretty ribbon at times.  Plenty time for him to humiliate me more......and there is Tilly to try as yet (god help me)