My Up & Coming Handler

[Vickie]

I am not sure if I have posted this before or not, but wanted to share. Chloe my 10 yo daughter has started running Trim in one run each trial we go to. I usually pick Open Jumping as Masters is often too complex for her & I want to run her in agility to maintain her contact criteria.

Chloe is improving as a handler all the time, she has a really nice feel for when she needs to push & when she needs to hesitate. It helps that Trim is trained of course, but she is not the easiest dog in the world to run, apart from her speed, she is very tuned in to handler movements so your timing has to be pretty good to run her.

In May this year, we went off to Goulburn to trial. This was Chloe & Trim's run:

Clear and 2nd place!!!

The hesitation before the weaves was my fault, I told Chloe to call her really hard as I thought she would take the jump on the other side. Luckily Chloe thought quickly to turn her again & lucky Trim has good weave entries!

excuse the bad videoing, LOL, I got very shaky with excitement towards the end.

I took some video of them training together in the backyard this week as well which I will load later.

Edited August 25, 2009 by Vickie

[tlc]

Vickie That was awesome to watch, Well done to Chloe and Trim, they make a great team

edited to watch the back yard vid, it is fab too!!

Edited August 25, 2009 by tlc

[MissMonaro]

That was great :D

[Vickie]

Thanks guys

Vickie That was awesome to watch, Well done to Chloe and Trim, they make a great team

edited to watch the back yard vid, it is fab too!!

I haven't put it up yet...it's still on my video camera.

eta...You must have watched an old one, I think there are 3 on YT taken in our old backyard. now we have room to set up a full course though so the new ones will be better.

Edited August 25, 2009 by Vickie

[SSS]

I've seen Chloe run Trim at a few trials now, they really work well together

[TerraNik]

What a great team!! Congratulations!

[Rach...]

just watched some of the vids, she does fantastic with Trim!!

[smisch]

As I already commented on that Vid Well done to Chloe and Trim.. Chloe has come so far since her first few runs at ADAC..

I reckon by the time Chloe has her own Agility Dog she is gonna have Top handling skills.. Very much like her mum!

Well done again!! Its great to see younger handlers getting out there, I wish there would have been more when I started out!

[Vickie]

Thanks all

I reckon by the time Chloe has her own Agility Dog she is gonna have Top handling skills..

LOL, I wish she had one now then I could have my dogs back! If anyone has a spare dog they want to do agility...feel free to bring it over for Chloe to train . We are not in a position to get her a dog right now, having 4 already. When the time comes, it will be good for her to train her own dog & be able to start in Novice rather than being thrown in the deep end at trials.

Its great to see younger handlers getting out there, I wish there would have been more when I started out!

you have been a great role model for Chloe Sam. You weren't a whole lot older than Chloe when we first met you & look how far you have come ! .

[sas]

WOW Way to go guys!!!!!