[Jhemphill]

Well my husband and I went to the Agility Competition in Mocksville NC this last weekend. The weather was miserable, it was cloudy, rain/sprinkling and cool (I can not say cold as I have lived in North West Illinois and the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State). We watch a couple of the novice trials and an advanced trial. The novice trials were very entertaining. The dogs seemed to know where to go more often than the handlers, some of the dogs had to be coaxed to go the right way and were distracted easily. One dog was doing very well until it (I do not know if was a female or male) spotted a Pem and took off out of the competition area to go play with the Pem, of course it was disqualified and the handler seemed a little bemused as to what came over the dog, I believe that it thought what ever the Pem was doing was a lot more entertaining that what it was doing. There was also a poodle not a standard, that was running in the advanced trial and went in the collapsed tunnel got near the end and stopped, after some coaxing by the handler the poodle came out and continued the run with out any faults. There were mostly Pems, I did not see any Cardis, Shelties and French Bulldogs, some larger dogs, although we were there early, and the 8" and 10" heights were the only ones running. One of the cutest sites I saw was a beautiful sable Pem, larger than the others that I had seen, run when it got to the weave poles it sort of bunny hopped through them with its head held high and smiling all the way. It ran the course (Novice) with only one fault, it knocked down a jump. I would have to say that it was one of the most enjoyable mornings that I have spent even though the weather was awful. I thought is was run very well and everyone was very nice and loved showing off their dogs. My husband and I agreed that we will be attending more of these in the future. My husband said he thought there were at least 20 Corgis there, but we could have counted wrong because it was Corgis Galore, they were every where.