Ace gets his first USDAA titles and the Alasera gang sweeps up more ribbons

At the USDAA Agile Canines agility trial on June 20 and 21st in Burnsville, the Alasera gang had a great time. Abby, Ace and Mellie competed in the Starters/Performance I and Advanced levels in multiple classes. Abby and Ace finally overcame teeter fears and went on to have great qualifying runs in their standard courses. Snooker was a really fun games class and they all enjoyed racking up a lot of points in this strategy event. Mellie got her final qualifying run in Advanced Standard to earn her title. Ace got his last qualifying runs for Starters Snooker and Starters Jumpers to earn his first two USDAA titles. All the dogs earned nice placements, firsts and seconds in all the qualifying runs. They got nice pins for the titles earned at the trial as well as all the qualifyiing and placement ribbons. Ripley came along for the ride but did not compete as he is “back in training” for now. We will have to pick up some “distance” skills before we go too much further, as USDAA has a gamblers class which requires the dog to work away from the handler. So far, they prefer us fairly close to them on the course. All in all, they qualified in over 50% of their runs and showed some great confidence.