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Comment by Cheri on October 22, 2013 at 8:04am

CPE is a great place to start a baby agility dog. The environment is much more low key and less competitive than AKC. Level 1 does not require the dog to perform the weave poles or the teeter. Those obstacles might be on the course, but there will be a way to qualify without performing them for the L1 dogs.

CPE has 4 title Categories, Standard, Handler Games, Fun Games and Strategy Games. For a Standard title you must earn a certain number of qualifying runs in Standard. To earn the different Games titles, you earn qualifying scores in each of the games in that category. So instead of titling in Jumpers as in other venues, in CPE you earn qualifying runs in Jumpers and Full House to title in Fun Games, in Snooker and Jackpot to title in Strategy Games, and in Colors and Wildcard to title in Handler Games. You might want to look at the CPE rules online. It explains all the games, what you have to earn to title at each level, and the different jump height categories. http://www.k9cpe.com/forms/2013rb.pdf

Corgis can take a height exemption once they are 3 years old and may run as an Early Veteran. Similar to AKC's Preferred class CPE has Enthusiast which has your dog run 4" lower than their measured jump height. Or in CPE they also have Specialist which will have your dog jump 8" lower than their measured jump height. The difference between the jump height classes (other than their jump height) is the SCT (Standard Course Time) for the dog. An Enthusiast that's regular jump height is 12" but is jumping 8" as an Enthusiast will have the SCT for 8" applied to their run. However a Veteran (including early Veteran) measuring 12" and jumping 8" will have the SCT for 12" applied to their run. That means that if your dog needs more time to complete his run it's better to enter as an Enthusiast rather than an Early Veteran/Veteran because usually the higher the jumps, the shorter the SCT. It seems confusing at first but basically for timing there are 3 categories, Regular/Veteran, Enthusiast, and Specialist. Regular/Veteran has SCT for their measured height applied to their run, Enthusiast has SCT for 4" below their measured height applied to their run, and Enthusiast has SCT for 8" below their measured height applied to their run.

Comment by Judith Andre on October 21, 2013 at 10:13pm

Aging memory with the weaves! 

Comment by Jenny, Tucker, & Zoey on October 21, 2013 at 9:54pm

CPE is super fun! Go! No weaves or teeter in Level 1. :)

Comment by Susan and Merlin on October 21, 2013 at 9:17pm

CPE Level 1 requires neither weaves nor teeter.

Comment by Judith Andre on October 21, 2013 at 8:48pm

As I remember, you do have to do 6 weaves in L1 Standard at least.  You can look it up on their web site.  Murray tends to drop bars, especially on rear crosses so Snooker is especially stressful.  He also has been known to complete a game successfully, then stand with his nose over the table and refuse to touch it!  In CPE the table is often used as something to stop the clock at the end rather than a 5 second pause...but since he associates it with having to wait it is his least favorite obstacle.  Luckily, he seems to have gotten over that problem.  Even if your weaves aren't great, I'd go ahead and do it.  Practice in competition is always good.

Comment by Marcie on October 21, 2013 at 8:35pm

We played snooker at class tonight. It is confusing. Becca won and was 16 seconds faster than the next dog. It is funny how a short legged corgi is so much faster than the labs and goldens.

Do you have to do weaves at level 1? They are the only obstacle she hasn't conquered.

Comment by Judith Andre on October 21, 2013 at 8:20pm

Yes.  I would highly recommend them.  Tend to be a bit more informal and laid back than AKC.  There are no "refusals" called.  On some games, but not all, you can have one dropped bar and still qualify.  You can do up to 5 runs a day which is nice.  Besides, Standard and Jumpers, there are a number of strategic games where the handler has to make choices..for me and most people "snooker" is probably hardest to understand and execute.  Go for it and have fun!

Comment by Marcie on October 21, 2013 at 7:16pm

Has anyone competed at CPE trials? There is a fun run nearby this weekend. If it goes well, I would be able to enter a trial at the same venue next month. The nearest AKC trials are over 3 hours away, much harder to attend.

Comment by Cheri on October 2, 2013 at 9:56am

http://www.nadac.com

Make sure to clear your history or hit the reload button. Once it fails, then subsequent tries reload from cache instead of actually trying to load from the net.

Comment by carolyn matassa on October 2, 2013 at 9:34am

I've tried three diff days, but the NADAC is website is always down?  Does anyone have a good link to them?

 

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