Contact!!

Wow! What a way to end the year! Hana and Rumor had incredible runs at Contact in Hamden CT on 12/31/11.
Rumor went 3/5 - A miscue on my part made him think he was doing the gamble he had over the Thanksgiving weekend at AGD and he flipped back into the tunnel instead of taking the jump.. good boy for reading me correctly! The tire had a very light magnet and a brush by him cost us a Q. I totally get the need for a breakaway tire, but I think there should be some standard for how much force it takes to break it. He's a big dog and he barely touched it. Shame to loose a Q on a lovely run for that! He then went on to get his 32 Relay w/ Bobb and Tailer, his 34th snooker and his 33 jumper.. oh so close to Gold! 18 from LAA-Silver now!

Then there was Hana ~ her first full weekend in Masters and she was a rockstar!! We have had some issues with stress (more on that later) and I have worked very hard to learn to work through them and this weekend proved I am on the right tract! For the first time she went away from me the Master's distance and did the tough gamble that only 5 22 inch dogs did! Her first Master Gamble Q!! In Standard I felt like she was on the edge of control at times and once had to sort of stop to get us back together, she did a PERFECT Aframe while I moved laterally to the next obstacle ~ gosh it was gorgeous ~ and ended up with her first Master Standard Q. She Q'd in Pairs with my friend Anne and her girl Arwen, Q'd in Master Snooker and had a bar in jumpers, but ran really fast and finished so happy! It was a great day. I am beyond thrilled with the two of them!