On Oct 10-12 we spent the weekend in Westminster VT at the Teacup Nationals. This was only our second Teacup event that we have attended. Becca and Salsa started competing in agility in March of 2007 and there are not many Teacup trials held in our area. We had a great weekend. Becca and Salsa competed in the 8 inch division, which just so happened to be the most competetive class of the weekend. There were 70 dogs total in the 8 inch classes. You earn points for your placings in the classes throughout the weekend and then the top 10 dogs move onto the final round which is a standard course and a game. Becca and Salsa went into Sunday with 0 points and were feeling pretty certain that they would not make it to the final round. However after their showing on Sunday they ended up in 6th place in the point standings and had made it to the finals. Becca and Salsa won the game in the final round and were 5th place in the standard round because of a table fault, Salsa fell off of the table because she was too close to the edge when she sat :) When they awarded the ribbons it was very exciting as they went from 10th place to 1st place. As they kept going and Becca and Salsa had not been called yet it got more and more exciting. They ended up finishing 2nd place overall :) Quite an accomplishment for a junior handler. She was the only junior handler to make it to the finals :)
Salsa also won the tunnel challenge and had the fastest time of all the dogs from all of the heights. They won the high point dog award from Massachusetts, and the top junior handler award. It was a great time and I am hoping that the Teacup Nationals will be in our area again in 2009.
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