Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Agility dog show

Saturday I went to Burlington, VT to an agility dog show. My Mothers dog, Melody was in it to get her fourth "leg" so that she can advance to the novice round.(Which she did and took first place) Pretty amazing stuff. A giant indoor place. You'd never know the room is full of dogs as they are so quite. What is so amazing is the silent communication between trainer and dog. Lots of hand signals. I stayed and watched the advanced jumping...which was really amazing. Lots of fun. Though shooting tho. these are at 3200 iso 500 ss F 2.8. Lots of yucky yellow. I couldn't catch any of the black dogs, the camera just couldn't focus on them fast enough. The next show in October is outside. That one will be fun to shot.


This Lab was soooo cute and nervous. He was coming over one of the ramps and looked down. He got so nervous...he couldn't make it. the trainer tried and tried to get him to walk over it. She finally went over and picked him up and got him down. Once you touch the dog your disqualified.


The above one is my Mom's dog..melody . This below one is one of my mom's friends.

1 comment:

lynne said...

That looks like so much fun! I wonder if they have any of those around here.