John Heffernan

See the attached PDF for a white paper on the scoring of multi-sport dog competitions.

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I am not sure of my next goal for me and Wyatt in agility, if any.

We will be doing probably one day of NADAC a month.  He is 11 1/2 years old.  We need 7 elite weavers Qs to get our V-NATCH but these have been few and far between.  He seems to get very frustrated with Elite Weavers with all the sets of 12 weave poles right after the fast tunnels.  Either that or I am doing something wrong.  I moved him down to Novice (3 sets of 6 and he did great).  We would need 13 more Elite Chances Qs for a NATCH-2.  Both of these goals would be tough at our current rate of competing.  I guess I will just enjoy competing with him and see what happens, with the addition of practicing more weave poles and tunnels and continuing to work on distance at home.

I am proud to announce that, after a 5-year effort and at the age of 11 and 1/2, Wyatt has earned his NADAC agility championship.  It took us 4 years and a great deal of training to get the 13 Elite Chances qualifying runs needed for a NATCH.  He also earned the required 13 Jumpers and 23 Regular qualifying runs. Elite Chances is a very difficult class, requiring you to run behind a marked line up to 30 feet away from your dog. This is Wyatt’s 66th title that he has earned.  I will write more about our journey to this title is a subsequent post.