2010 Review: Dylan

Our 2010 goals.

• Dylan to win out of Primary Agility and Jumping
• Dylan to win out of Grade 3
• Dylan to get his 10,000pts (Silver Award) in BFA flyball
• Dylan to get his Agility Warrant (Silver) award
• Dylan to get his BAD-Bronze (5 BAA class wins)

We have definitely achieved 4/5 goals this year, and may actually have struck out on 5/5.

That just … I don’t know why Dylan continually amazes me, but he does. I think I am setting goals that will push us, that aren’t really attainable, but every time he steps up and up and meets it. He had 33 top-3 placings this year in agility. That’s a lot. Dylan is amazing, I don’t appreciate him enough.

He won out of Primary mid-way through the year, so I moved him up to Novice, and he promptly won several classes there too. So he’s now in Graduate. Likewise, in KC, we suddenly hit our stride (incidentally, just after winning out of Primary), and Dylan went from Grade 3 to Grade 5 in the last 6 months of the year, and then got his first Grade 5 win this December.

Flyball has been hit and miss, we’ve struggled with a lot of things this year, but it’s finally coming back together.

• Dylan to win out of Graduate Agility and Jumping
• Dylan to win out of Grade 5
• Dylan to get his 15,000pts (Gold Award) in BFA flyball
• Dylan to get his Agility Warrant (Gold) award
• Dylan to get his BAD-Crystal (15 BAA class wins)

I’ve been intentially ambitious, since we achieved everything last year. I think his FD-Gold is probably within reach, but it’s very difficult to judge as he’s currently only on 8070pts (to August 2010). I also hope both agility wins are realistic, although I’d prefer to stay in Grade 5 for most of the year.

That’s the main thing for Dylan and I this year, to relax and let things roll. These are our goals, but I really wouldn’t mind just staying where we are and picking up again in 2012, providing we make progress in other ways.