APDT results

APDT Trial - Sit Happens! (Calgary, Ab.)
March 19 & 20, 2011

On March 19 & 20, four SAWHDA members (three students and myself) from Elkford, Fernie and Jaffray attended the APDT Trial at Sit Happens! in Calgary. Nervous energy ran high as it was the first trial for Dee O'Connor with Labrador - Molly, and Jenn Williams with Jack Russell - Spencer and Border Collie - Abby. For Sylvia Howard with Standard Poodle - Julie, it was her second trial, but the nerves still ran high as Julie needed one more leg for her L1 Title and Sylvia was anxious to bump her up to L2 and work off-leash.

All three girls came home with their Level 1 Titles (Jenn titled both her dogs!) and I am VERY PROUD of all of them! They worked extremely hard and deserve a huge congratulations for their efforts. Dee and Molly qualified in all four rounds with the highest individual score of 200 and the highest aggregate score of our group in Level 1A.

My little Doberman girl - Jagged, performed great in spite of feeling "under the weather" with a mysterious skin ailment. She posted 2 perfect scores of 210, 3 - 209's, and a handful of 208's. We were happy with those results and Jagged is now resting comfortably on a whopping dosage of Prednisone, while we wait for biopsy results from Cornell University.
We're all looking forward to the next trial in October as everyone has "caught the bug". In the mean time, we will all get ready for agility trials in the summer months.