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climbed the dogwalk with his nose to the ground. Turns out he was following a large bug as it crawled. Brody responded to his name and while the bug was certainly interesting he made mom happy and completed the obstacle. Andrea didn’t mention if he made the down contact. Brenna Fender arrived to walk her course only to find an unfortunate altercation had occurred in the ring and surrounding areas. Blood and feathers littered the ground in the crating area. However, her concerns were about the feather remnants scattered throughout the ring. Brenna was competing at the time with Jordan her Vizsla. Instead of concentrating on her walkthrough, Brenna spent most of the allotted time gathering feathers, much to the

amusement of the late Randy Reed, competing with his bird-hunting Weimaraner. He jokingly accused her of trying to gain an advantage by stuffing her pockets with feathers. Wendy Parciak was competing in the AKC FAST class with her Border Collie Moth. Wendy’s course strategy called for Moth to do a 180° turn near the finish jump. As Moth cleared a jump she spotted her leash hanging near the exit and ran over and grabbed it. Moth cleared the last jump with her leash in her mouth much to the crowd’s amusement. Speaking of leashes, Andrea Harrison’s Border Collie mix Sally loves to tug with hers. At one of Sally’s first trials Andrea dropped her leash and led out. The leash runner picked it up and started twirling

it like a lasso. Fortunately, Sally’s enjoyment of running agility superseded her desire to chase her leash and tug. Michelle Trummer competes with Zoe, a very enthusiastic Sheltie. Zoe began to refuse the last obstacle if it had electronic timers. Michelle speculated that Zoe did not want the fun to stop so she painted obedience dumbbells black to simulate timers and duct-taped them to jumps randomly set up in her yard. Zoe got lots of goodies for taking these jumps and hasn’t refused jumps with timers in a trial again. Bonnie Norris was running a course when her Border Collie Kilt got pretty far out ahead of her. Kilt took the teeter and since mom had not caught up turned around and went back the wrong way. Bonnie thought

he was going to step off and called out Wait. Bonnie then called out Turn, a word she had never used in training before. Kilt turned around to the correct end, made that contact, and Bonnie caught up to him. Nice job Kilt! Eve Cutter was surprised when her score sheet was marked NQ after a great run. She reviewed the video of her run but could not figure out the reason for the disqualification. Eve approached the judge and asked if she could explain why she had been disqualified. The judge explained that while her Poodle was on the table he kissed Eve as she bent over him. This is considered contact with the dog and an automatic NQ. Eve now stands tall to avoid those PDAs (public displays of affection).

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