September 23, 2000
AKC Delaware Valley GSD Club
Rain Drops are Falling on Team Bean
Dum dee dum dee dum.
Ok, everyone, you all hung in
there and have dealt with my eighteen page reports of the Team Bean, so as a
reward, you all get to have two emails about my agility dogs.
So here it is, in TWO
installments, tomorrow yielding the second. This will be more of a report then
my usual sense of humor coming through. I am exhausted and am really looking
forward to that dinner I am having with my birthday having sister.
Maybe tomorrow, I will get
back on the band wagon and actually be funny.
AKC
Level order: Novice (A&B),
Open, Excellent A, Excellent B
There are no placement ribbons for NQs because AKC is unappreciative of all the hard work people put into
training their NQing dogs. : )
NQ = Jumping the "pretty
yellow area" on the heavy equipment, knocked bars on the jumps, exceeding
refusal limits, off courses.
Q = Not goofing up. : )
Courses offered:
Standard-all of the equipment
Jumpers- jumps, tunnels, and weaves.
And I am not saying if I Qed
or not. That is for you to wade through this whole email to find out.
Also, I am still training
Crumpie to type so hopefully he can write one of these emails. Sally has
already taught Molly how to do this and well, I am feeling like an
unaccomplished dog trainer. : )
In order that I ran them:
Excellent A Standard
Crumpet
This course had a somewhat odd
opening, but we get through it. We haul around the course and get to the Table,
which Crumpet has to jump off of. I am shocked as he has not done this in quite
some time, but we recover. We then haul to a jump, U turn it back to the
DogWalk.
Sigh. He jumps the yellow area, NQing us right there. I never thought about pulling him off the course
until a few hours later. I guess I was too focused on the rest of the course to
be worried about the contact area. Oh well.
We haul some more, get to the
Frame and then it is a full right to a jump, but there are jumps everywhere.
Just could not throw my shoulders fast enough and sent Mr. Crump over the wrong
jump���off course.
NQ
Bad me, go lay down.
Novice B Jumpers with Weaves
Harry
WAAHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Can't you tell I liked this course? Hee hee hee hee.
Harry did a beautiful job of
running this course. We had a very minor conversation at the weave poles and
were off and running, but when it came time for a tunnel; he just had to go and
take the WRONG end. Remind me to work "Right & Left Tunnel" in class.
I think we also dropped a bar along the way�.but in any case it was a BIG, GIANT�.
NQ, but man was it my kind of run.
Smokin'.
Excellent A Jumpers with Weaves
Crumpet
Ever walk a course and pick
out the jumps that are going to come down?
No? Well, heck, you need to get a
dog. Not just any dog either. You need to get a Pembroke Welsh Corgi, and then
you can share in my experience.
This course was beyond weird
in sections, but Crumpie handled it beautifully.
I elected to do a lead out
from the Start Line (because of a yummy tunnel trap), as I had figured that a
bar was coming down someplace, so take the risk. So I walked out past the
double jump, held my breath and called him over the first two jumps.
Wahoooooooooo. He did not knock either down. Bad thing? He was going over the
next two (Correct) jumps before I had time to move.
The only thing that kept us
from a Q? Pop out on the weaves��yes, Crumpie POPPING out and one knocked bar
on a jump that was NOT planned on in the walk through. (That bar managed to
stay up.)
NQ, but this one put my hair on fire�.and I think the grass. The Crump
Dude was aaaahaulin'.
Everyone cheered for Crumpie.
Why? It was not because they thought he was Fred.
It was because he was Crumpie.
While lining up for Novice
Standard, I take a lot of flack for having that fall last weekend during Fred's
run. People are coming out of the wood work, busting on me for such a flawless
fall and gorgeous send out. I did not realize that so many people noticed, but
I sure in heck did not want to repeat that one again. It took me until
Wednesday to get the swelling down in my one knee and I was not going to take
any chances this time around.
Novice B Standard
Fred
Did I ever mention that I love
this dog? Hee hee hee hee hee.
Freeeeed.
Put Fred on the Start line and
let go. He promptly knocked the first bar.
If I thought that last weekend
was awesome and that we were going to repeat that performance, please. Freddy
was having a grand time of barrel-chesting THROUGH, not OVER, those jumps.
Waaaaaaaaaaho for Fred.
His distance work was
incredible and he left me in the dust, so much so that I was cutting some
serious corners just to keep up. Thank you God for "Right and Left".
This also leads me to the
"before we run" warm up. We are separating Harry and Fred's crate. No more
"how to get handler Joyce going" conversation.
Everyone cheered as Freddy
beat his slow-butted handler over the finish line because everyone loves Fred.
(Julie thinks I am joking, but everyone does cheer for and loves Fred.)
They love this dog.
I love this dog.
Freeeeeeed.
NQ
When this dog gets this last
leg (win) for the NA title, Susie said she is taking Mike and me out for dinner.
Following our arrival home from this said dinner, there will be a HUGE Kegger
party held at my house. Dogs as well as people will all be invited.
And you all think I am
joking. Just keep the beer cold and run an IV into my arm.
7 seconds later with Harry.
Novice B Standard
Harry
This is truly the "behind the
shed" dog�.some thing we used to threaten Crumpie's mom with after failing in
obedience.
Harry gets the DW contact,
Left, Over, but cannot follow the directions for a "You're drifting" Right Over
command. He takes the wrong jump, and then back jumps it. Oh yeah, forgot to
mention that he was 25 feet away.
We get back on track and we
get to the Table. "DOWN", said in a mean Joyce voice. I have tried the nice
way now it is MEANT. He goes into a down and then pops up to lick me in the
face.
It is the "oh no she is mad at
me" Corgi thing. He jumps on and off the table, does not try the down, even
with multiple commands given. I start to reach for him to take his butt off the
course and something magical happens.
He drops. He remembered our conversation from two weeks ago. : D~
Oooooooh. I thought the judge
had called me for touching my dog, but she did not. (I never made contact with
him.)
The next obstacle is the Tip. Harry barely makes it, but it is legal. Hurray for Harry.
Jump, right, frame�..makes the contact�..jump (it falls), chute����finish.
The good thing is that Harry
was more in control despite the fact that I did not have the time to run his
butt off before running the course.
Everyone cheered.
Why?
Because it was Harry
And because they cannot figure out how this blonde chick does it.
NQ
I get stopped shortly after
running Harry by Nancy (with Patti the BC). She wanted to know where the heck I
have ever gotten not one FAST Corgi, but THREE. She was not at the Corgi
National last week to see some great examples of those fine Border Corgis.
It is called challenge their intelligence and let "em go. You just NQ a WHOLE lot.
We packed up and came home.
For those who know and care:
Y2K9s was well represented today.
Everyone can write about their
own accounts, Molly can type hers. I am just doing the reporting.
Elaine & Nan (Border Collie) NQed in both Open Jumpers and Open Standard. Weave Pole problems killed them in
Jumpers and the DW in standard. (Can't you tell Nan and Crumpie are best friends?)
Cindy & BG (Sheltie) took a 1st Q in Novice A Jumpers but in Novice A Standard, Chute problems killed them in
the end. Darned, wet, tangled-up chute.
Karen & Mozart (Papillion) took 1st place Qs in both Novice A Jumpers and in Standard. Everyone cheered for
Mozart too. Karen should be proud of herself for really working those contacts.
Sally & Molly (Australian Sheepdog) took a 1st place Q in Novice A Jumpers, but in Novice A Standard,
Molly had to go and tip the broad jump. Otherwise, it was a gorgeous, CLEAN, FAST run.
Well, that was my Saturday. There is nothing like getting up LATE and then rushing out the door. That is
also when you discover that it is also raining and you have an entire day to
stand on a field and get drenched.
And we get to do it again tomorrow.
Joyce, The Captain of Team Bean.
Rain Drops Stopped Fallin' on Team Bean
Howdy Hooooooooooooooo, everyone.
Did you all enjoy this dreary Sunday?
No? Well then, you all need to get into a sport that requires you to be on a field at 7:30am, rain or shine.
Today it was rain in the morning�.
also had the pleasant
experience of waking up to Mike asking if I was suppose to be someplace. In my
groggy, waking up to reality state, I answered something to the effect that I
was supposed to be on a field. His response? "Well you had better get moving
because I hear birds." One does not hear birds at 5am.
Oh my gosh���..and I am off and running to get the dog fed & walked and me ready to go. I was half an hour
from the show site and it was 7am.
Fret not, my little Civic got
me there exactly on time with no points on my driver's license.
Hooray for me.
This next part is hard to
form. I know I have already done this for the Y2K9s email group about
obedience, but I thought I would add a page to this email to thank all of the
people that make agility fun for me.
First off, the "Adventures of
Team Bean" emails were originally formed for Betsy and Anne. It was an ooops
email that got sent to both when I really meant to send each one of these women
a personalized copy of my runs with Crumpie. It just kinda grew from there. Now you know whom to shoot.
I want to thank Susie E. for sharing her RV and providing Crumpie & myself with a lot of human "sitting on
the field" equipment. I also want to thank her for letting me handle Fred and
Harry, as just as much as we humans challenge their Corgi intelligence, they are
challenging my human one.
Thanks for the experience.
I want to thank all of the
agility people that put up with us while sitting on the agility field. You all
make it so much fun for me�..and that is why you will always find Crumpie & me
on the field with a cup of coffee in my hand at 6am.
Finally, I want to thank all
of you who read these Team Bean emails. Without all of your comments, well
wishing, and support, I think I would not find the "delight" in my NQs the way I
do.
I would thank Mikie for his
support, but he gets the run down when I get home. Be happy you are not him.
Thanks guys.
AKC
Level order:
Novice (A&B),
Open, Excellent A, Excellent B
There are no placement ribbons
for NQs. AKC just loves their technical courses to help the hosting clubs save
on "ribbon money".
NQ = Jumping the "pretty
yellow area" on the heavy equipment, knocked bars on the jumps, exceeding
refusal limits, off courses.
Courses offered:
Standard-all of the equipment
Jumpers- jumps, tunnels, and weaves.
There are going to be no
"bottom of the page" summaries anymore. I know my sister's habit now. : 0
In order that I ran them:
Excellent A Standard
Crumpet
This was the same judge we had
at the Corgi National last week. She was still using the idea that slow, little
dogs were going to be her only Qers�..and she was right.
Okie Fadokie, we are off and
hauling, except when Crumpie comes off the frame, I look up and see the Tire.
For the life of me I cannot remember what the thing is called and Crumpie's
forward motion carries him right past the obstacle. Refusal and NQ right
there. To add insult to injury, he then goes and back-jumps the darned thing.
I put him back through the
Tire, call right, and then Walk (DogWalk). We haul to the end��.that has one
heck of a U shaped tunnel ten feet from the bottom. The DW is lined up with the
left ended tunnel, but since this IS the Excellent course, we have to go through
the right-ended tunnel.
Ok, I have two things going on
here. The DW yellow contact area that Crumpie just LOVES to jump and a yummy
butt tunnel trap. Crumpie starts his decent on the DW and slows himself down.
In the process he looks up and sees the tunnel. Dilemmas for such a little dog
that early in the morning. He makes the contact and as soon as I see that, I
issue the Right, TIRE command while throwing out my right arm. He goes
straight, then turns to the right, looks back. I must be crazy. There is no
Tire.
Oooops my bad, Crump, "Right TUNNEL, Crump". Honest to god, I saw this
giant light bulb go on over his head as he realized I meant RIGHT TUNNEL. He
looks back to the tunnel, eye-spies the correct end, turns his body to the left
and barely makes it into the tunnel.
Holly Tomoly, Crump, I cannot
believe you just did that," I say to my now disappeared dog. The judge cracks
up laughing and Crumpie appears two seconds later with the biggest Crumpie smile
on his little doggie face. He was incredibly proud of himself.
Needless to say the rest of
the course was done to perfection with not ONE bar down. That is because we
NQed at the Tire of all things.
Ironically, Crumpie's command for the tire is Ring.
Now you know why I am the Captain of Team Bean.
Only six people cheered for
us. I think I like the people running in Novice so much better.
Novice B Jumpers with Weaves.
Harry
I was looking forward to
running this course with Mr. Harry but he just had other plans. Since I was
late getting to the site I did not have time to run his little butt off. So
instead he got me back and ran mine off instead.
We never got past the weave
poles, which was obstacle number 7 because Harry was carried off the course.
Oh no, Poor Harry.
NQ
Excellent A Jumpers with Weaves
Crumpet
While walking this course, I
had picked out where the bars were coming down, as some of these turning
sequences were difficult. I did however, really like this course. I was not
disappointed.
I had also elected to do a two
jump lead out because of yet another yummy tunnel trap. Hey, why not? Crumpie
is retired from getting any more titles and is strictly out there to run his
little Corgi body off. He just needs to listen and keep performing for those
Gummy Bears my dad keeps sending me home with.
The whole run was in control
except for one area that I had problems with. Yes, I could have handled it
better, but I did not and that cause one little PVC bar to fall. After a few
more jumps, Crumpie has to go and pop out on the same set of weave poles that he
did yesterday. Hummmmmmm. I think that question has been answered.
As we finish the last half of
the course and cross the finish line, only five people cheer (the sixth had to
be in the other ring).
It seems that nobody loves Crumpie.
And then Joyce smiles. Ha ha ha ha.
NQ
Novice B Standard
Fred
My buddy, Freeeeeeed.
Did I ever mention that I love this dog?
Freeeeed.
This course had four jumps and
one broad jump. The rest was the fun stuff. I have hope for Fred. My heart is
beating and Fred is really focused. This is his final AKC run for the year and
the agreement is that if he Qs, he retires forever. If not, he does Obedience
for the winter months and comes to live with me in January for retraining of his
jumping�.so that he gets that one LAST novice win.
I learned from my mistake of
yesterday and put Fred waaaaaaaaaaaay back from the Start Line. Hold on until I
can cross over to his left, look up, let go, and call Frame. He sails over the
first jump and misses the Frame. How that is possible I have no idea, but
getting Freddie glasses is a really good idea. I pull him back and he goes
over. He is over and gone before I can do anything else.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaait for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, Freeeeeeeeeeeeeed".
I call the Tire, then tunnel,
and he is gone. He gets the DW contact and comes to the next two jumps on the
course. In typical Fred style, he takes them both out and then will not sit on
the table. He has to go and do a Tip "fly-off" but sails over the broad jump,
hits the cute, and CLEARS that panel jump that all of the boys have been
knocking since the C. National last week.
Everyone cheers because everyone loves Fred.
I love Fred even though he knocked two out of four jumps on the course.
Freeeed.
NQ because he really wants to stay with Mike and me.
7 seconds later with Harry.
Novice B Standard
Harry
Harry keeps it together until
we hit the DW. He has to go and jump the contact. Then we get to the Table and
we have to have a conversation about a plain old sit. Finally we are off and
ready to do the Tip, but in Harry fashion, he jumps off before he can get to his
fulcrum point. He then takes the wrong end of the tunnel, but does haul his
butt over the Broad jump, chute, and Panel jump.
It all took 3 seconds to do. Harry was flying faster then an F-14 being catapulted off an aircraft carrier.
I was his Reel along for the ride.
Everyone cheered for Harry.
Everyone cheered for the
blonde chick that could finally go home and sit for five minutes.
NQ
For those who know and care:
Once again, Y2K9s was well represented today.
Elaine & Nan (Border Collie) NQed in both Open Jumpers and Open Standard. Believe it or not, the only
thing that kept them out of the ribbons was "tenth pole" pop-out weavepole
problems. They both had two awesome runs that should have been Qs.
Congrats to Elaine for her handling and strategy.
Cindy & BG (Sheltie) were only
entered in Novice Standard, but at the last second, BG had to pop out of the
Chute. To save his life, he would not get into the darned thing. Cindy had
done a beautiful job of getting BG through the course and she gets a click and
Gummy Bear treat.
Karen & Mozart (Papillion)
joined the "yummy tunnel" society on their Novice jumpers run, but took 1st
place in Novice standard for yet another flawless run. Once again, everyone
cheered for Mr. Mozt.
Sally & Molly (Australian
Sheepdog) NQed on their Novice Jumpers. (Forgive me as I did not see the run),
but they did take a 2pl Q for the Novice Standard run.& Sally did an awesome job
of getting that "BIG over" command out when it came to the broad jump. Molly
responded in doing a BIG over.
Yes, Sally, you did do a lane
change to let me pass. Thanks for the laugh for the ride home. The funniest
part is that I was content with staying behind you and your Firestone Tires.
A hardy congrats go out to
these guys from the members of Team Bean for doing all of the Qing this
weekend. What a great way to start out one's AKC Agility career.
That was my Sunday. Who needs a Gym membership?
Hope all of you had a great weekend too!!!!!!!!
Joyce, The Captain of Team Bean.
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