Sophie had her first Rally Trial tonight at Wilmington Kennel Club. We were the first dog to go in Novice B and she scored 99!!! Unfortunately we didn't place, there were three 100's and three 99's, I guess we weren't fast enough. I couldn't care less! Circumstances over the past couple months have prevented us from any Rally classes, and we've missed a lot of our obedience class too, so I wasn't sure how she would do. I actually almost didn't go, but I figured she has worked very hard, and has come so far since we started training after Bruce passed away, so I felt she deserved to go and compete.
I am so proud of her, she was very focused and maintained eye contact with pretty much the whole time. She was a bit crooked on a Halt, Down, Walk Around and I think that's where we lost our one point. We had a lot of good comments from the other competitors on what a great job she did.