Agility runs from this weekend!
 

Odin and I had another fun weekend. We only Q'd on two runs but he got his Agility Dog of Canada title and had some smokin fast times! He was being a butt in the weave poles though, he popped out on two different runs and he really does know better, so we will have a proofing refresher. I was getting super mad about the weave poles and the couple of ugly runs we had, but now looking back on the weekend he did work really well for the majority of the time. I really need to quit focusing on the negative, sometimes I let my competitiveness get the best of me:) We also won the judge's choice award for top starters dog:) (Now he gets to move up to advanced standard which is super exciting!) Anyway here are a few of our runs from the weekend.

AAC March 2-3 2013 - YouTube

Does anyone know why I can't get my videos to embed?

These runs were fantastic. He has no trouble jumping or running, so to me you just need to keep up the good work to improve his jumping skills.

All the other 'issues' were FAST DOG issues so I'm loving that too. You can only see them come out at training and you are doing so well at working thru them to 'teach' the rules are the same at a trial.

Great job and keep up the good work!

hey nice work, goog to see gsd's doing active stuff, liking it.

Thanks MRL:) I have been trying really hard to maintain the same criteria at trials as I have in training! It's so hard to throw away runs to train but I know in the long run we will be way better off.

Thanks x11, I really wish there were more good GSDs doing this kind of stuff. You would not believe how many people comment on him. Everyone seems totally shocked to see a GSD that isn't a crippled nerve bag!

know what yr saying, near all the AKC sports are dominated by BC's except the clubs where they are excluded from winning (but allowed to run) , bite sports = mals, some schuts holdouts but of the two clubs i can go to one is nearly all mals and the other the TD will ignore you if you didn't buy a pup from him.

the latest trend is GSD's that are big black and stupid pets - the customers want them so the breeders are breeding them in large numbers, in part it is a reaction away from the show scene as now so many don't want just another show dog they want a dog that looks like a working dog except bigger, blacker and acts like a house labrador.

it is becoming embarrasing to own a gsd.

I agree x11, it seems to me like the working GSDs aren't in a very good state:( I hate to say it but I'm pretty sure my next dog is going to be a mal. I do prefer GSDs but I just feel like I am far more likely to get a HEALTHY, physically capable sport/working dog if I go with a mal. Odin is freakin awesome but he is the least substantial male GSD I have met and one of the only ones I know without some sort of significant health or temperament issue. I am having a lot of health problems with my younger GSD and its kind of turning me off the breed:(

sad to hear, most everyone i know with a mal started with a gsd...

Embedded video- first of all, don't use the you.tube shortened URL. Secondly, post only www.whatever, not http://www.whatever (leave off the http, or https). That should do it for you.

Nice runs! He sure is looking good!

gotta ask, free-shaped my food obessed non-gsd to jump, worked well, used luring and touch pads on my ball obssessed gsd to jump, now he is always looking backwards when in mid-air waiting for the ball and usually plouhs into the jumps doing so - what i did i do wrong exactly and how do i undo it.