Alas! I have done the math and I think a PACH is not in our future. But we're gonna have fun anyway. Dog 2 now, that's gonna be my MACH dog. She doesn't exist yet, but that gives me time to work on my training/handling skills. Or maybe dog 3.
Exactly, enjoy the journey, every run I learn a little more…usually a lot of what not to do, lol!
I have two older dogs that I started in a fun agility class at age six and they loved it, and I loved it. Next thing I knew we were competing. But neither one of them are my MACH dogs, they are each one leg shy of master’s level but are now 10 1/2 and 12. COVID came and the world shut down, and that slowed us down. When trials reopened around here, they were only outdoors and neither one of them did well with that, and the last few years have ticked on.
In the meantime, I got Gracie, who is three now, and will run in anything…dirt, grass, rain, etc. She was a puppy so I was able to get some good foundational work in and have concentrated on competing with her. She is definitely on the MACH journey, but I don’t forget my older girls who got it all started! They still go to class once a week and I enter them a few runs in CPE here and there. So it took me three dogs to firmly be on the MACH journey, but it has been a great ride.
pics for context, Lily, the parti color poodle mix is 12, Misty, a bichon shihtzu mix is 10 1/2. Gracie is three.
