Abby debuts at her first agility trial at the PCA National Specialty

At the PCA National Specialty in San Antonio, Texas on April 10th, Abby ran her very first agility trial. She ran her Novice Standard run according to her own ideas. She disliked all the contact obstacles, so those were “skipped” by her. She also missed her weaves, deciding 6 was just too many. But she had a grand time taking the jumps and doing the tunnels and chutes. Needless to say, we did not qualify in that run. In her Novice Jumpers with Weaves class, she was remarkable. She had a blast taking all the jumps and she had only one slight refusal which I take total responsibility for. She not only qualified with a score of 95 out of 100, but she was a full 15 seconds under course time and took second place to boot. She ended up with a very nice set of rosette ribbons. I was quite proud of her performance. We’ll have to go back to the drawing board on the contact obstacles, but at least we know she likes to run the courses!