May 24 Agility Camp

It's been a dog-filled weekend, beginning with obedience yesterday, the dogs all off to play at our early Memorial Day Picnic yesterday afternoon, oh the fun of lots of dogs and kids running amuck with frisbees and wagons and balls, and a full day of agility camp today.

Today was Miss Charm's day to shine all on her own. With lots of the things she loves to do like JUMPING!

Over poles and through tires.

She's settled right in and tackled her more difficult challenges with a renewed sense of confidence.

And her favorite obstacles with gusto.

Today she shared the course with one of her vet techs, and her dog, Zoe...a pekingese who made agility look easy! Imagine! That little dog flew through the course and over the jumps.

Pretty good for a little fur ball.

Pit mix and pekingese sharing a sunday.

Charm really did a good job on the training course.

And of course she loves those fly ball jumps.

After taking a break for lunch and a swim...OH...was Charm excited to get a chance to swim. She has missed swimming so much. She ran around in circles of joy. Anyway, after that we graduated to the Regulation Agility Course.

Where she had to learn to tackle much higher jumps...with a little patience and persistence.

And real weave poles.

And that A-Frame seemed awfully high.

And the teeter seemed awfully far off the ground.

But she got lots of love in between.

Kisses and hugs.

And on every break she got to go swimming.

And she even got to do a little sightseeing on the way home.

So here's a little video of her very very first attempt to run a regulation course...by the end of the day she did a pretty good job and I got much better too. Charm got a big kick out of her "mommy" having to be trained. She just sat back and laughed. But Phew...are we tired after all that running!