March 15th 2005 7:25 pm
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On the weekend of March 12-13 2005, Cosmo competed in his first ever Agility trial. We had a devil of a time deciding which classes to enter, but the club members and instructors at our agility club, K9X in Austin, Texas, were so helpful that it seemed easy.
Cosmo earned what is called a "Q", a qualifying run, in the tunneler class on Saturday. Such excitement. There were about a dozen tunnels set up in a complicated pattern, and he rocketed through them like there was no tomorrow.
On Sunday, he ran in his first jumpers class, with 15 jumps and two tunnels set up in a challenging, complicated course. There were about 45 other dogs in the class, and Cosmo earned third place in that class. He ran clean, but wasn't fast enough to earn another Q in that class. No one in his class earned a Q though, as that time would have been lightning fast, and these were all Novice dogs.
Cosmo had such a blast, we are already looking over some entry forms for the next trial to enter.......
Onward!