Day 5

The weather report. It rained all night, but by 5:45am the day started with clear skies. Smiles all round here. The reason it was 5:45am had something to do with receiving a text from NZ at that time. We are 2.5 hours behind NZ time! Thanks Nevenka. (LOL)

We have met heaps of nice Aussies over here. Everyone has made us feel welcome and helped us out alot.

Today there were two trials, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. It was a big day with 8 runs. The Kiwis had a very successful day, with Pete and C winning both the Masters Agility events. In the afternoon Agility Masters, the Kiwis were 1st, 3rd and 4th!. Tana was stunning in the afteroon with 4 clear round from 4 runs.

The results from today.

AM Trial

Masters Agility
Pete & C 1st
Lyn & Jenna 7th

Masters Jumpers
Pete & C 2nd
Lyn & Jenna clear

Open Agility
Lyn & Jenna 10th

Open Jumpers
Karen & Tana 2nd
Lyn & Jenna clear

PM Trial
Masters Agility
Pete & C 1st
Karen & Tana 3rd
Deb & Ace 4th

Masters Jumpers
Karen & Tana 3rd
Pete & C 4th

Open Agility
Karen & Tana 3rd

Open Jumpers
Pete & C 4th
Karen & Tana 5th=
Lyn & Josie clear
Lyn & Jenna clear







So lots of happy people on the team here. We have told them that the good dogs are arriving on Tuesday from NZ.

This was the largest single club agility trial ever held in South Australia with in excess of 30 Novice and 30 Excellent dogs, 80 in the Open classes and 76 in Masters. They ran 4 rings at once. This was ok until we found our 500mm Master’s dogs were going to be required in 3 rings at once. However it was not too stressful in the end and everyone managed to get to where they were supposed to be.



Most differences between their agility gear and ours are only slight. The hurdles are wider and the uprights higher – which is nice. The width of the hurdles changes the way handlers have to plan their way around the course as the ring somehow seems “fuller”.



The A-frame is lower but the dogwalk is higher. The see-saw is quite a bit heavier – someone tell Carol to bring some lead weights to help Raisin!!!

For some reason, some of us have had trouble remembering the courses – not sure why – ok there are a few more obstacles (up to 24) but maybe also a different style.

We have certainly met some lovely people so far, and we’ve had a good time chatting to everyone. They keep making fun of our “accent” and making us count beyond 5 for their entertainment – strange people. All in all has been a fun weekend with really pleasant judges who smiled nicely at our stupid questions and didn’t laugh too hard! The food was fantastic at the show and they had a great shop at the German Shepherd clubrooms which sells all sorts of gear and dog food. -we have bought some leads in Upper Hutt colours, Schmakos etc.