It's The Little Things That Make Life Such A Big Deal!
Posted by Laura on 10/28/2009, 6:28 am
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Friday and Saturday were a lot of 'close but no cigar' runs. Rocke ran well - chiropractor helped for sure, but he knocked a few bars and wasn't quite fast enough.
Raoudi did some weaves to be proud of, but missed contacts (yellow zones at end of obstacles).
They did well in Snooker, but I tried for too much and ran out of time.
I figured Sunday it would come together or fall apart. Well, how about both?
Rocke still didn't quite get anything. Raoudi went wild in Standard and Gamblers and didn't do his contacts. He refused to run for Joelle in Pairs, and ran back to me and Rocke after two jumps. I chewed him out.
The last run was Snooker. It's red jump-obstacle three times, different obstacles are different amounts of points, 1 to 7 and what's worth how many changes and may be a combination of two or three things and the red jumps may be hard to get to without running by other tempting things. Now, they've each gotten several qualifying scores, but you need three in the top 15% of the class (plus 5 in all other games)for what's called a Super Q, to get your championship or ADCH. How many are given depends on the number of dogs entered. I've decided to just go for it and try for 3 7s whenever I can. Either we bomb or luck out and get them if nobody's faster. The rub: we have numerous World Team dogs in this area, and a lot of dogs never get one Super Q because they're beat by them on time by these fast dogs and super athletic handlers. Of course, they aren't perfect, and even a blind pig finds a truffle now and then. This time, though, obstacle 7 involved weaves, and I didn't trust Raoudi. So, we did 3 6s. I was so pleased with Raoudi's efforts that I ran him back to his crate and gave him a piece of his birthday cake and didn't watch the others much, except to see World Team member Joel, a tall, athlectic guy and his sheltie Marvel get whistled off for not entering the weaves right. They have not one but three ADCH titles and are close to a fourth. He got called a greedy bast*** a couple of weeks ago by somone they beat for the Super Q. I like Joel and his wife (also a World Team person) and have learned much from them.
I knew Raoudi at least simply qualified and was waiting to get his ribbon. Well, it took forever and ever for them to post results. I finally stalked over and looked at the judges book. He got second place, and in the Q yes/no collum by Raoudi's name it said S.
"S?" I asked the scribe. SHe nooded.
"What's S?" She looked at me.
"No" I said, "my little grey dog didn't get a Super Q"
"Uh huh" she replied.
Yes, folks, the blind pig found a truffle. The fat woman and the wild Schnauzer were one of two teams who didn't bomb, and we got the second Super Q. The other team managed three 7s, another nobody-we'd-ever-heard-of.
We were congratulated warmly by the big time folks and our fellow wanna-be's alike, and I don't think my feel touched the ground for an hour.
Now all we have to do is do it two more times and rack up qualifying scores in three other games we've neven even Q's in, LOL.
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