Shouldn't have stressed about Rally Novice so much...

**IdahoLabs** · 09-11-2010, 05:34 PM

Three-way tie for first place at 99/100pts, we won with the fastest time (1.24 or something like that). Good dawg.

**Milesmom** · 09-11-2010, 05:43 PM

YaHoo!!!!

**RangerMom** · 09-11-2010, 05:54 PM

Hi Paw to you both!

**Belles mom** · 09-11-2010, 07:32 PM

Congratulations!!

**jebsmama** · 09-11-2010, 08:53 PM

Great job!

**MicksMom** · 09-12-2010, 04:47 PM

Congratulations!!!!

**IdahoLabs** · 09-12-2010, 07:20 PM

I walked the course 3 times by myself and once with the judge and group of Novice handlers - definitely helpful to do the walk through. Thanks for the recommendation. We also arrived really early (there by 7:45am, didn't have to show until 10am) so I could make sure we'd been changed to the correct class, and then Lijah and I just sat by the ring and watched the Excellent and Advanced classes. Definitely helped. It took him the better part of 1 1/2 hours to completely relax. Turned out it was indoors (I thought it was outside, lol) so that was a different experience for him - the rest of the building was in use and it was loud.

Don't recall exactly how many people were in Rally, but there were 1759 dogs in Saturday's show (thankfully not all in Rally, LOL!).

Looking forward to next weekend!