Skimmer rallies!

Sat Feb 16th, Skimmer passed his last leg for Rally Novice certification at the Rocky Mountain Cluster (RMC) shows.

The first day of the show, Thursday, Skimmer was fresh and the air was cool and the show was running on time; Skimmer flew thru the exercises crisp and sharp and pulled off 94, a 1st place! So you’re thinking, like me, that Saturday we might have a chance. Maybe, maybe not… but it looks good.

Ah, fate changes as quickly as the weather in Colorado…

Dog obedience show schedules only list the start of classes and then you have to predict how long it will be before your dog enters the class. It’s usually not too hard but the RMC schedule for Sat., was an absolute cluster-f!!! You’d think they have this stuff down by now but one page said 11:55am, another page said 1pm, and it looked like there was only one judge for all the classes! What?!? In the end I decided to go at 2:30pm and if we missed class… k-sera-sera. At 2:30pm we showed up an the judge hadn’t started even the 11:55am classes! It would be hours! And so we sat… and sat… and Skimmer melted and slept and sighed and snored… ugh.

We *almost* left, but it was our last chance for a long time, so we gutted it out until after 4pm and decided to play. What a drag, or more accurately, I dragged Skimmer around the course.  He nearly fell asleep on the Down-Walk-Around-Dog station: he slouched to his side, flailed out his big body to get cool, and start to breathe heavily. Slowest Rally entry in recorded history, perhaps? In the end he pulled off a 90 but what a horrible run.

You’d think I’d learn but, no, we’re gonna give Rally Advanced and CDX a try.  Not gonna wait that long again though – that was too much.

About Marsha

Born and raised in northern California, lived in Colorado for over 24 years, but I've always felt most at home in Nevada. Go figure.
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