Agility

After a disasterous first outing, we began competing properly in agility during the summer season 2005, and Kim was measured as a borderline Large. We spent 2005 and 2006 hoping to win out of Elementary, and Kim nearly did it on several occasions, coming closest with a 4th in Starters Agility. However, at the end of 2006 Kim got her second measuring and confirmed what I’d suspected all along – she was a Medium. (Well, she is noisy and argumentative!)

Kim won out of Grade 4 at Newton Heath’s winter show in 2009, but then suffered a strain injury to her back that put her out of action for a couple of months. Just as she was beginning to return to form, she had an operation to remove a lump, and somewhere along the way she lost her enthusiasm for agility. She is now semi-retired, and although she still loves training, we only compete occasionally. She got her Agility Warrant Silver in August 2009. Despite her much reduced competition, Kim still won into Grade 6 in August 2010.

As well as being Grade 5 at Kennel Club shows, Kim also competed at BAA competitions. She is a Novice Medium dog, the equivilent to a KC Grade 4/5 Medium. In the 06/07 season she qualified for the Grand Prix Introductory Agility Final and the Grand Prix Introductory Jumping Final, and was named Introductory Medium Dog of the Year. In the 07/08 season she qualified for and came 2nd in the Grand Prix Primary Jumping Final.

In 2005 and 2006 we also competed in the YKC Team Agility, and qualified for and competed at Crufts 2007.

Kennel Club

British Agility Association