So the airhead strikes again.
 Please don't make fun of me, I really didn't know. Nobody explained the "rules" so I just assumed, and you know what they say about THAT word. I need to ask more questions, which just makes me feel dumb, and read more...like the rules and regulations, which tend to bore me to tears and confuse me. Ok, now that I got that out of the way, do you want to know what I was screwed up about? In agility, I know you start out in Novice, simple, once you Q in that you move to the next level. No one explained to me it needs to be THREE Q's before you move to the next level. I was exchanging e-mails with Kristine yesterday and something she said made me think my assumptions were wrong. I was going to write back and explain but stopped to think first. My thinking lead me to rules and reg's. Read through it and found out my assumptions were way off base. So now I know more. A little smarter, which really is not such a bad thing. So why do I still feel so stupid? |
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 Don't feel bad. We all have to learn somehow.What Pam is talking about is AKC agility. When you first start out competing with your first dog you enter the Novice A class in everything. Once the dog earns a TITLE (which takes three qualifying scores, or "Qs") you can no longer compete in Novice A and have to enter Novice B forever more (in other words the Novice A class is only for the true novice teams). If you're entered in another trial that hasn't closed yet, you need to move the dog from Novice A to B. If the trial has already closed, then there's no move. As an example, if Simon earns his Novice Jumpers with Weaves (JWW) title at this next trial, but hasn't earned his Novice standard title yet, at his next trial Pam would enter him in Open Jumpers and Novice B standard. Pam - wait a minute - don't you run him in preferred? There is no Novice A and B in preferred...It's just Novice Preferred. Or are you running him in the regular classes, jumping 24" ? kristine |
| I think she meant moving from Novice to Open. (And then Open to Excellent). It's OK Pam  Either you ask someone, or read the rules and regs book. Or do BOTH - like me! |
got sheep wrote: I think she meant moving from Novice to Open. (And then Open to Excellent). No, she didn't. She's only entered one trial one day (Hounds) and so it would be a bit of a miracle if she had titled already.  She entered Nov A in one class and Nov B in another and then started second-guessing herself. Once trial secretary stops scratching her head in bewilderment I'm sure they'll work it out Kristine |
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