Levi’s Agility Runs Today

Here is Levi’s first agility run from today. It’s his Excellent B Preferred Jumpers with Weaves run. My collie boy has such a good time doing agility… even thought he’s eight, he’s still having a good time. This is his clean run and I’m so very proud he got the weaves!

As you can see he did great, got his weave entry after the tunnel and finished them all. I was proud of him and we celebrated afterwards. On Friday he didn’t quite weave the first day… ran by them, but on the second run he gave them a try. I brought him back, was excited with him, and he finished them all. I think that helped his confidence for his first run today.

He now has 3 runs towards his MJP. He needs 7 more. He has 5 runs towards his MXP, and needs 5 more. Man these Masters titles are taking us a long time. But that’s okay, Levi is doing great and we are having a good time.

This run he also did great, but he didn’t Qualify. And if you watch his weaves.. you’ll see him bump the second poll. My obedience and agility instructor was telling me (she was watching, yay) that maybe Levi is entering the weaves too fast and he’s not able to control his movement around the second poll. (The reason he pulled out half way through is because he spotted the tunnel, and broke for it. LOL. I saw when his eyes spotted it and he focused on, silly boy. He prefers to weave when there is no obstacle after.. he likes to weave into nothing.)

I have never worked speed into the entry with him. Teaching him to collect. He is very long bodied, and will span up to four polls at a time when he weaves. And if he doesn’t collect and set himself up at the right speed, he might be going in too fast!

My collie boy going too fast? Wow! We’ve had weave problems as long as we’ve done agility. Because of me, of course. And in the last couple years I have really worked at de-stressing them. Well now, maybe it’s something else! Maybe it’s not stress! Maybe it’s something we can really work on! :)

So tomorrow I’m going to play with this, give him an ‘easy’ as he approaches them, see if that might help. Hrm… and we’ll see about doing some training for that entry. too.

Levi did great today and I was very proud of him. I love doing agility with my collie boy. He is such a great boy, and I adore him, and I do hope we have some good years left!

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  1. Daisy the Curly Cat
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 4:35 am | Permalink
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    Hooray for Levi! It looks like he did great, and he's fun to watch. Daisy the Curly Cats last blog post..<a href="http://daisythecurlycat.blogspot.com/2008/05/sund...rel="nofollow">Sunday Comics with Daisy!</a>

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    Posted May 4, 2008 at 4:35 am | Permalink
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    Hooray for Levi! It looks like he did great, and he’s fun to watch.

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  3. Daisy the Curly Cat
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    Hooray for Levi! It looks like he did great, and he's fun to watch. Daisy the Curly Cats last blog post..<a href="http://daisythecurlycat.blogspot.com/2008/05/sund...rel="nofollow">Sunday Comics with Daisy!</a>

  4. Johann
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 4:58 am | Permalink
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    Great run! And big congrats - Levi did look so much like he was having a great time - he has nice weaves on that JWW run! Wow! Johanns last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JohannTheDog/~3/28...rel="nofollow">Some results are in for the AKC World Agility Team tryouts!</a>

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    Posted May 4, 2008 at 4:58 am | Permalink
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    Great run! And big congrats - Levi did look so much like he was having a great time - he has nice weaves on that JWW run! Wow!

    Johanns last blog post..Some results are in for the AKC World Agility Team tryouts!

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  6. Johann
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 4:58 am | Permalink
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    Great run! And big congrats - Levi did look so much like he was having a great time - he has nice weaves on that JWW run! Wow! Johanns last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JohannTheDog/~3/28...rel="nofollow">Some results are in for the AKC World Agility Team tryouts!</a>

  7. pam
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 1:23 pm | Permalink
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    Go, Levi!!! What a great run! He was having *so* much fun, too! If I weren't such a lazy bint I'd take Bree to classes… ;) pams last blog post..<a href="http://www.pamibe.com/?p=2302&quot; rel="nofollow">Ooooh, girl…</a>

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    Posted May 4, 2008 at 1:23 pm | Permalink
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    Go, Levi!!! What a great run! He was having *so* much fun, too! If I weren’t such a lazy bint I’d take Bree to classes… ;)
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  9. pam
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 1:23 pm | Permalink
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    Go, Levi!!! What a great run! He was having *so* much fun, too! If I weren't such a lazy bint I'd take Bree to classes… ;) pams last blog post..<a href="http://www.pamibe.com/?p=2302&quot; rel="nofollow">Ooooh, girl…</a>

  10. Key West Collies
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 1:24 pm | Permalink
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    Sure sounds like everyone is having fun. I doubt I would have the patience for it. Though I could imagine Essex going after the rabbit for greyhound races. Key West Colliess last blog post..<a href="http://keywestcollies.blogspot.com/2008/04/key-we...rel="nofollow">Key West Sun Halo</a>

  11. no imageKey West Collies (Check me out!)
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 1:24 pm | Permalink
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    Sure sounds like everyone is having fun. I doubt I would have the patience for it. Though I could imagine Essex going after the rabbit for greyhound races.

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  12. Key West Collies
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 1:24 pm | Permalink
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    Sure sounds like everyone is having fun. I doubt I would have the patience for it. Though I could imagine Essex going after the rabbit for greyhound races. Key West Colliess last blog post..<a href="http://keywestcollies.blogspot.com/2008/04/key-we...rel="nofollow">Key West Sun Halo</a>

  13. Cynthia Blue
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 5:57 pm | Permalink
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    Thanks Daisy! He is a happy boy. :)

  14. no imageCynthia Blue (Check me out!)
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 5:57 pm | Permalink
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    Thanks Daisy! He is a happy boy. :)

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  15. Cynthia Blue
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 5:58 pm | Permalink
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    Thanks Johann! Levi is a good boy, he does have fun, wish I wouldn't have screwed up his weaves to begin with.. oh well, we live and learn! ;)

  16. no imageCynthia Blue (Check me out!)
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 5:58 pm | Permalink
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    Thanks Johann! Levi is a good boy, he does have fun, wish I wouldn’t have screwed up his weaves to begin with.. oh well, we live and learn! ;)

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  17. Cynthia Blue
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 5:58 pm | Permalink
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    Hi pam! We need more smooth collies in agility! :) They love it. They are not the fastest breed but they are the prettiest! LOL

  18. no imageCynthia Blue (Check me out!)
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 5:58 pm | Permalink
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    Hi pam! We need more smooth collies in agility! :) They love it. They are not the fastest breed but they are the prettiest! LOL

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  19. Cynthia Blue
    Posted May 5, 2008 at 4:36 pm | Permalink
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    Heya KWC.. Levi has done some lure coursing.. but he doesn't like it when he gets too far away from Mom. He wants me to run with, and that's not gonna happen! LOL

  20. no imageCynthia Blue (Check me out!)
    Posted May 5, 2008 at 4:36 pm | Permalink
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    Heya KWC.. Levi has done some lure coursing.. but he doesn’t like it when he gets too far away from Mom. He wants me to run with, and that’s not gonna happen! LOL

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  21. Gus
    Posted May 7, 2008 at 10:44 am | Permalink
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    Great run - now that's a happy dog. :-)
    I was also struck by the mountains in the background! I was admiring the hills at the show I was at this weekend, but nothing as dramatic as that. Guss last blog post..1

  22. no imageGus (Check me out!)
    Posted May 7, 2008 at 10:44 am | Permalink
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    Great run - now that’s a happy dog. :-)
    I was also struck by the mountains in the background! I was admiring the hills at the show I was at this weekend, but nothing as dramatic as that.

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