Lucy

Lucy

Lucy loves everyone. This was our biggest fear going to The FlyBall VIII in North Carolina. We were reasonably certain that she would take every opportunity to visit with box judges, line judges, maybe the NAFA official himself. She is quite the social butterfly. She has been known, at practice, to fling herself shamelessly at the boxloader. During these episodes, Lucy convulses while

Call Name: Lucy

Breed: Miniature Poodle

DOB:

Owner: Sable Allen

Debut: 08/19/2009

NAFA: FM

U-FLI: TF-III

whimpering endlessly. Worse yet, she appears to suffer from short-term memory loss, meaning each additional encounter is really a first encounter. Surprisingly, when we arrived in North Carolina, Lucy was all business. You couldn’t have gotten her attention off the game	no matter how many times you called her. She took to the lane in the start position, mostly because we didn’t want to sandwich here between two dogs at her first event and because we had another dog that needed the anchor position. When the judge asked her handler if she was	ready, she acknowledged and said the words to get Lucy ready, too. Lucy’s shoulders dropped, and she looked straight ahead – seeing nothing except the box and hearing no one except the boxloader. It was an amazing transformation to witness. Lucy struggled with ball handling
		her first competition but wasted little time recovering and managed to make lane nearly all of her runs. Her handler got a little too far away during one heat, and Lucy spit her ball before the last jump and stopped. Had her handler left? Almost as second nature, her new handler moved back up, at which point Lucy picked up her ball and continued over the last jump. Lucy earned two titles that weekend and remained focused until the end of the competition. Good job Lucy.