All "kong-gu" today..

Another long day at the trials today.. funnily enough my legs seems to be more tired than any of the other trials before.. lol..

The day started off with the Open category.. only 6 dogs this time round.. 2 from CD Trainers - Schnappi and Lucky.  And only 3 dogs for Novice and Intermediate.  But after Micole withdraw due to heat, only 2 dogs left... this is really funny to watch, cause can you imagine a trial with 3 events and a total of... 10 dogs???  LOL!!  Really pathetic... 

The D'Marquee was quite packed with 3 rings - 2 for show and 1 for obedience.   And the obedience ring was not carpeted.. the floor was quite slippery and there was only a something-like 2x2 meters carpet in the middle.  Being a small ring in a big tentage, poor judge have to fight against the loud hailers in the other rings using her voice to call command.  The ring is so small that the jumps can't even be preset-ed...  they have to moved in and out for each dog.  There's also no proper stand for the distance control commands... pathetic X 2,3,4,5!!!

So.. end of the day... none of the dogs in the 3 categories managed to qualify... due to various reasons... a trial with no prize presentation... LOL... pathetic X6!!  All of us have to work harder the next time round!!

Out of the trial - Schnappi also took part in the companion dog games.  Bb wanted her to have some fun to "disperse" some of her hyper activeness.  She got herself a 2nd place in the Doggie Olympics race and a 1st in the Ping-pong race... lol... so she's got herself 2 packs of biscuits and bowling-pin-like squeaky toys...  and best of all, she peed in the 2x2m carpet!!  She must have thought how come there's a patch of greenery in the middle of nowhere.. haha!!

Whatever it is, there's really still many things we have brush up... new challenges always pop up after each trial to make us realise that only lots of groundwork and practice can make your dog more reliable.   The other misc factors can only be determined on the day itself.   Anyway it's a sport we enjoyed so there's no need to take things too hard... like some ppl... no names mentioned to protect the innocent... :P

My dear classmates, let's work harder the next round ya!! Fighting!!!