Saturday, May 10, 2008

JRT All-Breed Fun Day

What a day!! The weather was AMAZING!! Soooo summery and warm! OMD! The place was packed with Jacks! BOL!

We got there first thing in the morning, and up first...Terrier Racing! WOW, it was very cool to see the little Jacks that love this sport go at it!!

I got to borrow a muzzle (which is required for all racing for safety), and HM just popped me in the little box (which I didn't like) and off we went! Er, well, that's what supposed to happen...

I didn't really have time to do a training run, so it was a crash course on racing for me! They opened the gates and off the dogs went..I ran out too, but then just looked around at everyone! BOL! I figured out to run to the other end and finally made it down. I ran four times today, and each time was better, I realized I was racing to chase the lure against the other dogs, but I didn't like the muzzle on me so while I was running down the lane, I would stop to rub the muzzle and try to get it off.


There's no video of me, cause HM had to run to the end to cheer me on to run, and she couldn't do both.

Up next was a quick run through of some AGILITY equipment! They were having offical run throughs of the course in the afternoon, so the morning was just to familiarize yourself/practice with the equipment.

HM was so proud, she did a slow run with me on FULL SIZE contact equipment! I did the Teeter, TWICE all by myself for the first time!! I went on the dogwalk, attempted the A-Frame, but wasn't too sure about it.

Up next was something called Barn Hunt. They had a bunch of bails of hay in the barn, with tubes squished in between them. In one of the tubes was a LIVE rat!! So our task was to find the rat! YAY!! Cause that's what I was bred for, HM thought I'd be a natural! Guess what??!! I was! BOL! I sniffed around the barn, and went to directly to the tube with the rat!!


Such an eventful morning! My best buds, Denali and Starr showed up with their human and we had a nice lunch break "tail-gaiting" in the parking area. We sun bathed, wrestled, met some nice Jacks.

The afternoon session had more agility, where we had to sign up to do what they call a Jumpers course. No contact equipment, just jumps, tunnels (and weaves for the more advanced dogs!) So, I got to do a real fun match! The pressure! I was so tired from all the mornings activities. Check out the video...of HM trying to handle the course, and me fumbling through it! BOL! Brandi, we NEED more lessons STAT!!



After my run, HM knew I was done for the day..so we went up to check out the other activities and watch some pups have a good time!

This is a shot of the advanced "Go-to-ground" tunnel (dogs go through the tunnel maze to find their quarry...either a live rodent or a scented toy version).

We all ended our day watching the Lure Coursing event. Denali did the course, and ROCKED it!! Then we watched my buddy Forrest Gump..here's his shot of him waiting his turn, in the water bucket! (he's a Dock Dog!) BOL!

I'm completely pooped, so I'm off for a good long nap! Bark at ya later pups! Enjoy your weekend!

9 comments:

Kim said...

Wow, it sure sounds like you had a busy day! What fun to get out and try all those new things. You should be very proud of yourself for doing so well. I hope you have a good nap.

Latte said...

Wow!! All of it looks so fun, I wish I can join in the race (but me no Terrier...)

Woof,
Latte

Simba and Jazzi said...

That looks like a lot of running and jumping, what fun.

Simba x

Lizzy said...

Hi Simba!

Now THAT looks like it was a fun day! You did great at the Jumpers course! Jumpers is my favorite.

Thanks for telling us all about your day. You must have had a BLAST! I'm sure you'll sleep well tonight.

Sparky

Erin Crossman said...

Looks like you had a great time!!!

Anonymous said...

Dear Simba,

You are a very handsome dog, especially your ears. How do you get them to do that?

Sincerely,

Devon, (very handsome also)

Anonymous said...

Looks like you had a blast!! We wish we had things like that around here!!! BOL

Athena & Hypnos

Urban Smoothie Read said...

jumper is my favourite, coz i'm still yet to learn how 2 hit d contact..

i think the terrier event was GREAT! i would love the running, but will never dare 2 crawl those tunnels... it will really freak me out

Lenny said...

Way to go Simba!!