Well, following my post about all the different animals that can do Agility (including hamsters, rabbits and chickens!), my friend, Riley the Golden Retriever emailed me about a Beginners Agility course that was just starting here in Auckland and invited me to come and try it.
I wasn’t sure at first – Agility doggies always seem to stand around a lot in the rain and cold and dark (especially now it’s winter!) waiting their turns. I mean, they actually have to run around in the rain and get wet! Eeeeek! No way. I don’t even like to go walking in the rain – or even out for toilet, as some of you may remember from this post!
But then Riley told me that this class is indoors in a riding school so it’s nice and warm and dry. And it’s also on sand, which made my humans happy because they are always worried about a special sickness that big doggies like me can get as we get older, called arthritis, and if you bang your body a lot (like when jumping on hard ground), you can make this sickness come faster. But sand would be softer to land on.
So I thought – why not? After all, if chickens can do it…
So last Friday, we went to my first Agility class! 
It was run by the Auckland Canine Agility Club and held at the Ambury Park Centre for Riding Therapy in Mangere, Auckland.
I was very excited when we arrived so Hsin-Yi said I had to do some Heelwork (“attention-walking”) to focus my mind and calm down a bit. Otherwise, she said, going into a new place with lots of strange doggies all being very excited might trigger that old monster in me and turn me back into my adolescent self when I used to lunge at other doggies and try to bounce on their heads. Humph! These humans! Always raking up the past! I mean, everyone has a bit of history, right? No need to keep embarrassing me by bringing it up again! 
Anyway, it was a great place – so big and bright and airy, with loads of space and lovely soft sand to run on. There were lots of dogs there and boy, was it noisy! BARK! BARK! BARK! Non-stop! I don’t think I’d ever been in such a noisy place in my life!
There were so many kinds of different doggies there, although none as big as me! The next biggest doggie was a very handsome Afghan Hound but even he wasn’t as tall as I was – here we are saying hello…
We had to sign up our names and show our vaccination certificates before we were allowed to start. They said that the equipment wasn’t designed for giant breed doggies and so some might be too small for me to get through but we could just give it a try and see how it went. Then they sent us off to have a sniff around the place and check out the equipment first…
Ooh...what are all these funny things?
Hmm...I don't like the look of this...
And then we were split into groups depending on our size and also whether we had done Agility before…
There were 5 lanes set up with different combinations of equipment in each, so all the groups could rotate through and try everything. Also, this way the jumps could be adjusted for the different sizes of dogs in the different groups.
Most of the other dogs were on lead but Hsin-Yi let me be off-leash because I am better with strange doggies around me when I am not restrained on lead (otherwise I feel threatened and might get grumpy!) and also because I actually find it easier to move around quickly and follow her directions when I’m not dragging the leash around behind me. But don’t worry – I am very good and don’t run away or go up to strange doggies unless Hsin-Yi lets me, so it’s OK for me to be off-leash! 
Then we all lined up and got started!
The first thing we did were jumps and those were easy-peasy…
Then we all had to try a long scary tube thing called a Tunnel. Oh my God, you’ve got to be joking. You want me to crawl through that? I mean, have you seen the size of it? How do they expect me to fit in, never mind try to move fast through it??
I heard the other humans telling Hsin-Yi things like “just get her to crouch down” and “big dogs like German Shepherds can do it no problem”…AHEM! There is a vast difference between me and even a big German Shepherd! Hsin-Yi says its my silly long legs and being so tall and lanky…well, it’s not my fault that I’m born leggy! 
Hsin-Yi did laugh, though, because the people were trying to push and shove me in…well, she learnt a long time ago that when you have a BIG dog that weighs more than you do, you can’t rely on physical force to get them to do things! 
(Actually, this is better because a lot of humans just rely on dragging and pushing us doggies around to get us to do things but if they can’t, then they will have to figure out other ways to communicate with us and convince us to listen…which makes them better trainers and means that we’ll obey them even when we are not on the leash or in their arms! )
I did try – honest, I did. But even if I got my front half in and tried to crawl, my body would wedge the sides of the tunnel and make it roll around with me in a scary way – I just couldn’t move through it! 
Finally, Hsin-Yi did the Tunnel for me – hee! hee! – and they gave up – whew! The instructor said I could just do the jumps and skip the Tunnel…yay!
Then we moved onto another new thing: a Hoop! But I did manage to squeeze through this one, though, by holding my breath very tightly!
We also had to go through another weird sack thing but although it looked a bit like a tunnel, I managed to do this one OK because it had a wider mouth and the rest of it was made of a soft cloth which could expand to fit my taller, bigger body – so it was much easier to run through! 
We also tried a thing called a Long Jump although to be honest, it wasn’t really long for me – I could almost just step over the thing!
After we had tried all the different obstacles, they joined two of the lanes together to make a simple course and let us all have a go running through it.
It was a bit hard for some doggies because you had to start running on your human’s left side but then halfway through, switch to running on your human’s right side – but I was lucky because for dancing, Hsin-Yi has already taught me my “Side” command which means to walk/run on her right side (as opposed to “Heel” which means staying on the left side).
The thing I found hard was the jumps being put so close together…us big doggies have a much bigger stride, you know! Every time I landed from the first jump, I was already practically crashing into the 2nd jump and had to do some nifty footwork to avoid bashing my head on the bars! I wish they could have spaced out the jumps a bit more so it’s easier for those of us with longer legs.
(Hsin-Yi says that in the faraway place called England, there is “Giant Breeds Agility” where all the equipment is scaled up for us super-big doggies, so we don’t get stuck in things or fall off planks that are too narrow and the courses are designed for our longer strides too! What a shame we don’t have that here in NZ!)
Anyway, it was still great fun and I had an awesome time – and it’s so much easier than dancing! I don’t have to concentrate so hard or keep in time with Hsin-Yi and the music, or do difficult movements like walking backwards…this was all stuff us doggies do naturally! And I’ll bet if that Tunnel was bigger, I could have whizzed through it too!
And guess what? Hsin-Yi said if I enjoyed it, we could continue and do the rest of the 8-week course. So of course I said YES! (Hee! Hee!, as if there isn’t enough in my life already – therapy work, dancing…and now agility!! 
)
* note from Hsin-Yi:
Honey did so much better than I expected! I was only really planning to try one class for a laugh as I didn’t think she’d be able to do much at all but she surprised me!
I never thought she was the kind of dog who would enjoy moving very fast but she was galloping like a horse and really full of enthusiasm! I even think that if the equipment was actually the right size for her, she’d give the smaller dogs a run for their money in speed completing the course!
And it’s great that it’s on sand – the impact on the joints was always my main worry about agility, especially given that Honey is now officially in ’middle age’!
I was also surprised at how much easier it is than dog dancing. Gosh – no wonder Agility is so popular – it’s so much easier to succeed and be rewarded for your efforts, even at a simple level! I know we were only doing the basics and none of the more advanced equipment nor difficult courses but compared to doing an equivalent beginner dance routine in Canine Freestyle, this was so much easier!
Of course, I am not belittling Agility dogs and I realise that advanced agility courses require high levels of training and skill. It’s just for us, I definitely found Honey much easier to motivate because she was running and doing exciting things like jumping, and it was hardly any effort at all keeping her focus and concentration. All the actions are based on things dogs naturally do and I could just focus on getting Honey to go over and through obstacles in our path - without worrying about how I looked or trying to do spins and dance steps simultaneously! 
We didn’t have to move in time with music or each other, follow a complicated choreography or make sure that we were ”performing” to the judges and the audience…this was a lot more relaxed, like a fun game!
Anyway, it should be interesting to see how far we get on this course- and whether I can ever get Honey to go through that Tunnel! I have to say, I don’t think having it fully extended is the right way to introduce it – if I was teaching it myself, I would bunch it up as much as possible so that it was more like a hoop and get her confident going through that before gradually extending it. Break things down step-by-step. I think a lot of the time dogs struggle to do things because we rush them and expect too much too soon, thus setting them up to fail – which means they lose confidence and then give up trying. Maybe I will ask if we can arrive a bit early so I can do a bit of work with Honey and the tunnel using the clicker.
I also don’t know if I’m just expecting the impossible given her size and the tunnel’s size…I wish there were guidlines on measurements like they do for jumps to show the minimum diametre a tunnel needs to be for a dog of a certain size and height – because maybe this tunnel really is just too small for her to move through comfortably and easily…no matter how much time I spend training it!
i agree--i don’t think it is fair to ask her to go through the tunnel, it is simple too small for her and could tax her joints to go in awkward positions. she is doing much much more complicated things with the dancing, you are right. luv ya Honey!
Hi Honey
Penny has been taking private agility lessons all summer. We haven’t even gotten to the course yet. We have been working on shadow handling, the start postition and jumps. With the jumps we’re only allowed to have one bounce inbetween the jumps. Penny thinks it’s fun, mom is not so sure if she likes it.
You looked like you had fun.
Love Ruby & Penny
HI honey it’s Hauwii!!!
i love agility to!!!! but some time’s i am to fast for my owner
el’bow doesnt like agility he’s to big and lazy
you did well on that weel we call it “de band” its a dutch word
my owner Sanne is making a site to! in english and dutch so my english speaking friend can read it to
i will let you know
bye agility champ
kiss from hauwii, slobber kiss from El’bow
Hi Hsin-Yi, agility looks fun and I think Minnie, my almost 6 months silky terrier, would love it. I have seen Honey doing agility in another video and it was funny. That part where you have to crawl into the tunnel from the other end to get Honey into it made me laugh. I must say Honey is really very good at everything. You are such a good owner and trainer for Honey!
Honey, you did such a great job -- we don’t think we would like that tunnel either and we aren’t as big as you are. Mom has always wanted to do agility with Thunder but worries about falling herself -- she has bad osteoporosis. We can’t wait to see more of your fun at Agility.
Tail wags, the OP Pack
What a great job you did Honey!
I wish mom had time to put us in something like that. I think I would really like agility.
Kisses from Boxen and Bella
Hello Honey and Hsin-Yi….
I wish you guys lived in Chicago area so we could go to classes together….my mom said she would love to have another great dane friend for me and since I’m an older lady dane and you are catching up to me it would be so much fun to go to training together.
My mom is taking me to training classes all the time and we have lots of fun but most people look at her like she’s crazy like why is she bringing a 7 year old great dane to training.
We are so proud of you for doing agility training at your age…my mom thought about it a time or two but since I have some dog agression issues, I can’t be off leash if there are other doggies around.
You made us Great Danes proud with your agility video. I totally agree that there should be large breed agility classes and equipment. I don’t know if that exists here or not but I’m all for it…how the heck to they expect us to get through that little tunnel and hoop? Since I bloated my mom doesn’t like for me to jump around too much so I don’t think she would ever let me do the jumps although you look like you were having a blast. (My mom’s a bit paranoid about bloating again, broken bones, arthritis etc.)
We loved seeing the video so if you can try and tape your progess each week so we can see how you are doing. Go get em Honey!
Kasha (AARF) and Denise
hello honey its dennis the vizsla dog hay hmmm i wood say yoo shud mayk shoor yoo havent eeten before adjility that mite mayk it eezier to fit thru the tire!!! but the tunnel luks like a no go to me eether way!!! ok bye
Your Hsin-Yi is right. At our agilities school, they always introduce the tunnel all scrunched up so that it is not as scary. In fact for me they even used just the u-frame tunnel holders to teach me how to duck down and go through things before I went through the actual tunnel.
Agilities are really fun, especially when you just do a few obstacles at a time, but momma says once you have to start learning to run courses and do fancy footwork it gets much harder (especially with a fast doggie like pee-wee).
I wish we could go to the UK together and take classes on equipment for big doggies.
I liked hearing that you have leash issues too because sometimes I think I am the only one who gets a little nutty when I am wearing my leash.
I think that tire jump must be inferior because I can fit through the tire at my agilities school with no problem.
Slobbers,
Mango
WOOWOWOOOOOOO!!!
)))))))))
looks you and your mommy had a very very funny and exciting day!!!!
We love agility and mommy is thinking to do a course with us!!!!!
What do you think???
Sure we won’t sooooooooooooooooooo good like you but we could try to the best we can!!!!!
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm….
You look sooooooooooooooooooooooooo atlethic dear Honey….jumping….running..and jumping again!!!!
GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But you must remember to those people that teach at the course that you’re a big big dog so they could adapt the size tunnel for you!!!!!
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr……
why humans sometimes seems to forget the primary things of us dogs?????
We miss youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!
isn’t right we don’t live near!!!!!
We would like participate with you in all your excited activity!!!!!
3 goldens and you!!!!!
A wonderful dream!!!!!
WE LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!
And your mommy too!!!!!!
Give her special licks from us ok sweet Honey????
Tons of love and kisses!!!!
Honey, we think you are going to be the STAR of your class. We just think that the humans should make a “honey size” tunnel for you. That would be the right thing to do, after all! We can’t wait for your next class!
I was so excited to see Honey’s video, you two are going to have a blast!!! I’ shocked at all the things Honey was introduced to already though, and even running a short sequence. Both Lance and Vito’s classes had a ton of foundational work on handling, jump grids, and loads of one jump exercises before they even ran one sequence!
I wouldn’t worry about the equipment being too small either. If Honey really gets into agility there are plenty of jumpers only courses or jumpers with weave courses! Even though I know you can get Honey to go through a tunnel with a little more practice and baby steps!
And yes, it is a ton easier to motivate a dog for agility than obedience or freestyle! The hard part though is try to communicate with them at such fast speeds of where you want the dog to go. It’s all about the handling and so little to do with the obstacles themselves!
Keep taking videos and update us weekly on Honey’s progress!
Well done Honey!!!!! I clapped and clapped for you when you went thru the chute! That was superb! You looked like you were having so much fun!
Your mom was very good at tunneling. A+ for her efforts.
I agree, they should have scrunched up the tunnel very, very, very thin for you, as small as possible, so it didn’t even look like a tunnel at all, and then very slowly make it bigger. Don’t go all the way to full size in one class. Do it gradually over a few weeks time.
Every dog struggles learning one or two obstacles. So, don’t get frustrated.
I did see a great dane on tv recently doing the AKC agility nationals, and he was able to get in the tunnel, although, he did have to scrunch down quite a bit.
Can’t wait to hear about your next class.
hiya honey -- we love agility too -- woodrow has his master championship and so does sweetie -- mj is just learning -- you can easily get a larger tunnel for honey -- in the us there are tunnel size regulations.
good luck and keep us posted
Woodrow -- Sweetie -- MJ
OMD! Honey, you are a natural at agility!!!!
I am so glad I found your blog, super surprised that we don’t know each other yet. But Love your blog, and can’t wait to read more.
Hope you keep up the agility, you did so well!!! It’s so much fun
And we wanna ask permission to share your video on my blog, such a great video, and really brings back a lot of memories from my first class. Let me know K?
Woofs, Johann
Congratulations on your first agility class! Looks like you’re going to do great! I can’t wait to see you weaving -- big dogs look so cool when they weave!
Maybe your human can find you a big box, that’s what I use at home to practice the tunnel. My human said it was from something called a washing machiine. I love running through my box tunnel.
Daisy
Woo, Honey! You did it! You did that collapsable tunnel! And your mom did GREAT with the other tunnel!
Woo.
LUv,
Dave
Hi Honey -- you are simply amazing, is there ANYTHING you can not do?!! Wow -- we loved this post.
We do wish we had proper agility classes near us -- much as we love our garden set up female human isn’t really sure what she’s doing. She tries -- sigh! -- but she needs better training really….! You are, as ever, an inspiration! Schnauzer snuggles -- JD and Max.
Honey
Congwatulations!
I think you wewe wondewful..those jumps..you sailed ovew them wif such gwace and did gweat on evewything else too.It’s not youw fault that they make the tunnel too tiny fow such a gowgeous lon-legged doggie. The pictoowe of that lady twying to push you in was hillawious.
good job!
smoochie kisses
ASTA
Nice job Honey! What a fun video! It was hilarious watching the woman and man trying to shove you in the tunnel (although not nice, will only make you more resistant). That tunnel was way too small for you and I’m surprised they even tried. You’d basically have to be doing a belly crawl to get through. I’m so glad you had fun and they you get to keep going. Makes me wish once again that we had an agility club in my area. I’m beginning to think this place just isn’t very dog friendly. Please continue to give updates!
Way to go you guys!! I think it’s a great start that Honey will at least do the chute. Just keep working with her on the tunnel when it’s as squished up as you can get it. Eventually she’ll figure it out. You can also try different colored tunnels and she if she has a preference. Usually the lighter colored ones, like the one she was trying, allow in the most light and the dogs are the most comfortable with.
I’m impressed that Honey went through the tire jump! That tire jump looked sooooooo much smaller than the ones we go through!
Way to go Honey! You did look like you had fun! I thought the pic of you and Hsin Yi checking out the tunnel was really cute. I could even imagine the conversation you had…
Hsin Yi: See Honey, it’s only a short tunnel
Honey: Yeah right…You gotta be kidding me.
dear Honey,
You and Hsin-Yi did so well! Especially considering the course is not designed for you! Mumma comes from a horse-riding background and says that it is really important that the distance between jumps is right. Only when horse and rider are experienced at jumping do the courses maybe make the horse stretch its stride or bunch up its stride to get over a jump. It might be good for Hsin-yi to try to measure your stride to work out the ideal distance to put between the jumps for you.
I have finally posted “6 little things that make me happy”; thanks for tagging me!
smooches,
Mr Darcy
Well, that looked like fun! Except for the tunnel. Think you’ll ever do a tunnel after that intro?
Wow Honey your impressive! I wouldn’t have done the tunnel either, too small and too scary. That was nice of your human to do it for you. I hope you keep us updated on your progress.
Wow Honey! That was amazing. When I got Moose I wanted to try it to give him some confidence but did not get to it before he had knee troubles. I have heard of other pups who have had his kind of surgery who have returned to agility but I am too nervous about it! So we will live vicariously through you and can’t wait to see the fun you will have! That tunnel is crazy small! I don’t see how a leggy girl could fit through that! I was shocked you fit through the ring and had to giggle that it looked like you were wearing a kids swimmy innertube in the still photo!
Glad you had so much fun! Maybe once you get your paws wet in agility your human could start a giant breed agility school in NZ!
Moose + Dana
P.S. we made your liver and sausage treats last night and Moose went absolutely nuts just smelling the liver cooking! It is a real hit! I still have a problem getting him to focus when the treats are that good because he is beside himself excited and just starts offering everything he has every learned in a crazy continuous loop and then woofels when none of it works (this is sometimes before I have even given a command!) I think they will be perfect for more distracting places though! THanks!
WOW!
Woo did soooo furry well!
It looked like woo did have fun but that tunnel set up doesn’t seem right fur woo to navigate yet!
Tank woo fur sharing your fun!
Hugz&Khysses,
Khyra
Congrats on your first agility class, Honey! You did great!
I had some agility classes when I was a little puppy and it was very fun! I´ve never tried the tunnel. That looked scary!
xoxo
Thor
hey Honey, mumster made me read all about you and your mumsy before she allowed me to post.
congrats on your first agility class….you did great huh?
i am in awe of you because you’re so biiiig but i know you are a gentle giant -- uh i think i may be smaller than your head as i’m only 3 lbs and 8.5ins in length…..
do come by to visit and feed my lucky feeshies…….
chikisses for a fab weekend
coco
You should both be so proud. Our dogs would be asleep on the sidelines.
I’m sure a larger scale course would help tremendously…
Honey did so well! I’m so impressed at how quickly she learnt and how she attempted everything (don’t blame her about the tunnel, love that Hsin-Yi went through it for her). Thats’ a trick, right? That you get your human to do?
Oh Honey, my Mum was thrilled to see this, mainly cos she thought she was the only human that had ever crawled inside these tunnels and to see your Mum crawling about in them, she knew finally -- she was not alone. When she made me do this, it was in the middle of winter, cold, dark outside, pouring down with rain, humans in raincoats and me getting wet -- you get the picture, really -- “inhu-dog” conditions . You can see it now can’t you, those tunnels were the driest place they had for us. Mum couldn’t understand why I would stop in the middle and lie down and she’d have to crawl in and drag me out!!! I mean really, who’s the intelligent species here. Bodie.
Honey’s joy at jumping those obstacles is evident. And it’s always great to find ways to expand their worlds!
You’re a SUPER dog Honey! You can do everything! Dance, agility… you are awesome!
I can’t do agility because of my hip, too bad!
Kisses
Rufus (and Indie)
OMD, Honey, you look like a champ! The tunnel looks way too small for you. What are those hoomans thinking! I have an idea for the tunnel: Hsin-Yi goes through and you run on the outside… Just reverse the roles! I have also heard, like Mango, that usually they start the tunnel completely scrunched up and slowly make it longer so it’s not so intimidating and you learn to crouch down gradually. But then again, it’s so much easier to get Hsin -Yi to do it! BOL!
I LOVED the video’s coordination with the music!
WOO HOO!!! You go Honey!!! Maybe they have a larger tube for woofies like you……?
Dear Honey,
Wow your soap-eating experience was more extreme than mine!
when I was much younger I found some delicious rose flavoured soap! I picked it up and ran outside with it. I didn’t eat it; I just sucked on it. My hoomans were suspicious so they found me quickly. Mumma said ‘give’ and I gave the soap back, then I burped up some bubbles and then vomited everywhere without the help of the vet!
So now I do know not to eat soap, although sometimes I still think it would be nice to try it. So then I pick it up in my mouth and take it to Mumma, without sucking on it. Mostly though I just go and have a nice sniff of it -- such yummy flavours!
smooches,
Mr Darcy
Dear honey,
you agility video had mummy in stitches laughing at your comments about what those people were trying to make you sqweeze into that small tunnell.
Mummys os going to look into more clubs here to see if they can offer anything like this for us.
Mummys tried Flyball with Stripe and he loved that, but we didnt continue as they stopped the class
Untill next time
Slobbers
Stripe & Nitro
Honey, Duke feels your pain. But he has faith…you can do it! If his crazy momma can get him to go through a puppy tunnel, you can do a normal tunnel.
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Oh, Honey, you were fabulous! I showed my human, she wanted to take me to Agility when I get a bit older, but she wasn’t sure how well I’d go, because I’m not much of a jumper.
So to show her that I can jump, this week I started jumping up on the couch for the first time ever. She was very pleased, because when I got speyed, my tummy muscles didn’t heal properly and I had a hernia for a long time before anyone realised, and then I had to have another operation to fix it, so I spent a long time without proper stomach muscles.
My human was worried that I would never learn to jump up onto the couch. But then she tempted me with The Forbidden Hairbrush, which she uses to brush me, and which I like to chew on, and before we knew it, I was jumping up to attack the fake fur on her jacket, and then for pats and snoozing.
So maybe I *can* go to agility when I get older. I don’t think I’ll be able to jump as high as you, Honey, but I bet I will fit in that tunnel thing!
Puppy kisses
Sasha
Hiya Honey! Just popping in for a quick post as Mum ahs to go back to workies. I seed this when you posted it and got all excited and made a big reply, then my internets stopped working.
I will come back soon to make my big reply again but for now I will just say that it so cool you doing agility. I think the tunnel probably does be too big for you and that it could cause stress on your joints. We have a gsd at our class and they don’t let him use the tunnel cos he has hip problems and has to duck, it very hard to get through if you has to do that. You did good on the chute though! I think a scrunched up tunnel would be good if you’s determined to do it, but they much harder to step on scrunched up so might hurt your feets. hehe.
~lickies, Ludo
*Ooo* you did a lot in a one course. Mom told that here we take often only one obstacle a time to learn those properly first.
She told that your looking very good on your class
That video is sooo funny. Honey is so excited and pleased with herself. I would certainly check your agility regulations(which may be different from USDAA regs)as far the correct diameters for the tunnel and the tire. That tire looks WAY too small and the tunnel may be too narrow too. Your thoughts on teaching the tunnel are correct, you start with it bunched up.
Keep up the great work. It’s given Honey such enthusiasm!!
Oh HOney, you did a wonderful job. It looks like you had much fun!
Hey Honey!
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It is our labor Day on Monday the 7th.
This was awesome! Even our dad was laughing and cheering you on!
Honey, it’s great to hear that you had such fun. In my opinion that’s what all these doggie activities are about -- the dog having an interesting and stimulating life.
It’s wonderful that you worked on sand.
We used to go to a fantastic agility/tricks/fun and games class, but it’s stopped now because in the aftermath of last year’s awful bushfires the organisation funding it could no longer afford it.
So I hope you are going to post more about your agility adventures so Penny and I can reminisce about the fun we had. Sigh…
Well done Honey!
Love,
Homer
Mom has always wanted to take me to agility classes, but it never happened. Hope we can find some thing similar here in Taipei. Bravo Honey!!!
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