So the agility? Gustavo ran great. He never stopped trying his hardest and never stopped running his fastest. He attempted exactly one teeter totter in Team Standard and ran halfway up, turned around and ran back down. Hell yeah. It's ok. I didn't care. Good for him for attempting it. We didn't always run clean but we always ran all out. I busted out some excellent blind crosses, and really messed up one in team jumpers. You only live once. We are making a handling system that suits us. Me and Gustavo, we're doing this together.

I don't know if he'll ever be ok on teeter totters. Or turn tight everywhere I want him to. Hell yes on his weave poles and contacts that aren't teeters and startlines and going where I go. There were no freakouts or vision quests or vortexes anywhere in sight this weekend. We just did the best we could. And we'll have to wait and see where that takes us.

A very long weekend of dog agility.

We’re just back from a 3 day USDAA trial in Santa Rosa. This is up north,…