Well, I haven’t been able to post in a very long time, because of school. What’s been going on with that is on MY blog. Because I am so hideously far behind, I’m hoping to do a catch-up blog for each of the puppers and kind of generally cover all that’s been happening.
I left off in the middle of Midas’s agility classes. Which we continued until the end of the advanced class and then I felt that I couldn’t do the time or money during school so we quite 
. Here are some photos of the last few classes (click on the date to go to the whole set).
9/15/08
Our first agility trial. We did not qualify for our first run in Jumpers With Weaves but we not only qualified in Standard, we got first place with a perfect score. The videos are HERE.
I went by myself and met up with most of my agility class and kenneled next to them. Midas was very quiet and calm all day. Then he started puking and having soft poops. I wasn’t sure if it was nerves or not so we did the JWW course first, and there was some bad handling and some sniffing (seen in the video) but I was pretty pleased with our first attempt.
Our second attempt, Novice Standard, resulted in Midas yacking on the green right before our turn. I decided to wing it anyway and we got first place!!!! I have the actual course lay outs but am waiting for Eric to photo and upload them. For now, check out the videos. Oh, and the one and only photo I have (with my camera phone…)
Eric finally took the scary chance of running Midas himself, and did very well for his first time 
On 11/20/08 Midas and I attended another open agility, by ourselves so no photos. He did well. On 11/29/08 we drove to MSU bright and early for our second trial, which was disastrous and terrifying. He took a wild leap off the top of the A-frame, skidded on his chest/face and then went on to leap off the teeter. Needless to say, I yanked him from the course and dropped the rest of the weekend. I was shaking and in tears I was so upset with recklessness that he had shown (there’s a video, to be posted later – hopefully). We’ve taken a long break and are hopefully going to begin going to classes again starting next week, I will decide from there whether we will be competing again.
Beyond that, Midas is still my heart-dog and the perfect house companion. I love the moody stinker!
