Agility Debut with a Q!

Chinzi made her Agility debut at the Cape Handler's Non-Championship show on 28 June. She started the day with a slow-ish (to her standards) Contact round, but steady to secure her first qualification as well as a first place out of 24+ dogs.







She also ran the fastest clear Dog Jumping round out of about 29 dogs, but unfortunately knocked a bar in the jump-off.







In her Non-Contact round she was working very well, but her mom started rushing her and cause a run-by on the 3rd last jump, unfortunately causing her to just miss out on a qualification there.







Early morning she also ran with the Boland Flyers in flyball where they secured a first place with a time of 19.5 (?) seconds, in very wet conditions.


Well done Chinzi! You are a born star all around!

Oudtshoorn

We travelled to Oudtshoorn this past weekend, and Chinzi had two Dog Jumping rounds. The first she popped out the poles and knocked a bar, so we had 10 faults unfortunately.

The second round, the tunnel was just tooo much of a magnet and we DQ'd. :) She had so much fun though and her mom learnt a lot.

Unfortunately there was a really sad ending to a fun weekend, when we came home to find Chinzi's best friend, our kitty Casper, had died. On top of everything, it is still a mystery as to what happened to him. He had no bruises or any signs on his body of what could have happened. No internal bleeding or injuries, nothing. He was only 4 years old and in perfect health. We are still awaiting the results of further tests.

Chinzi is missing him so so much, she's watching the door every morning for him to come in and tease her for their morning game of chase, but to no avail. Chinzi, my heart breaks for you... Casper rest in peace, you were the best cat ever and so sweet with the dogs. You will always be remembered with extreme fondness and love by us all.

Flyball Queen

Chinzi was the youngest dog to take part in the Hills Flyball races at the Good Hope Centre on Friday. Our team consisted of 3 dogs from Cape Town, and one from Durban, so we had never practised together as a team. We did quite well, coming 2nd, although we had the fastest time, we only had one clean run of our 3 runs.

Saturday however, was a whole different story. 5 Teams competed in the KUSA Nationals, and our first 3 runs were clear! We were on a roll and our last run was against the very fast Boland team. Unfortunately something went wrong, one of our dogs ventured out the lane and we had a rerun, which meant we lost the last heat. We ended in a close second overall! For a team who has never run together, we were quite happy and pleased.

Chinzi had an absolute ball (excuse the pun!) and was so hard to handle the way she gets excited and screams to go while waiting her turn in line. The Hills rep told me afterwards, I have an "insane" dog, well... all I can say is... if you want to see drive, watch Chinzi do flyball! :)

This was only Chinzi's second flyball competition ever, and I'm very proud of my girl, being steady, fast and consistent, not letting her team down even as young and inexperienced as she is, she earned her points. You go girl!

After the competition I let her off the leash to run back with me, instead she decided to rather do some more flyball and ran down the lane and back twice again, all on her own! :) She was disappointed not to find her beloved ball in the box, probably why she stopped after the second try.

Well done my girl, you made mommy proud!