Brace obedience with Amanda
Amanda and her corgis, Wicca and Pixel, did a terrific job in the brace obedience. The expression on Pixel's face at times was priceless. She was clearly not impressed with Wicca
pulling her on the recall. What a joy to watch. Pixel ran her first Excellent agility class and Q'd with good time. What a good dog. Both girls were wonderful in scent hurdle.
Windmar Belgians Bo earned a couple of Qualifying rounds towards titles in NADAC and was part of a Qualifying and 1st Place Team for Team Obedience (even though we were the only team entered). Dex earned his Rally Excellent Title, and Zsuree earned her first conformation point at her very first show!
Judy and the flatcoat girls
What a great weekend for Judy and her three flatcoat girls. Mazie won BOB at the Westwinds Sporting Dog Specialty on Friday and then won BOB again at the all breed show on Sat.
Kona ran Scent Hurdle on Sat and Sun and only missed the 1 st jump coming back once and brought her own dumbbell back everytime. She has 180 pts. enough to qualify for a SHDX title!
Roxy got 2 Q’s in Agility and finished her Intermediate Standard Select title She got 100 in both that and her Excellent JWW run..
News From Carol An end to a super dog show weekend. Hank got his second leg towards his Rally Advanced title with a score of 94/100 and then ran out of brain cells....:) Had a blast volunteering for Chief Maureen O'Neill in the rally
obedience ring. Congrats to all my friends who did so well this weekend.
News From Carol An end to a super dog show weekend. Hank got his second leg towards his Rally Advanced title with a score of 94/100 and then ran out of brain cells....:) Had a blast volunteering for Chief Maureen O'Neill in the rally
obedience ring. Congrats to all my friends who did so well this weekend.
News From Sharlet
Ryder picked up two more qualifying scores towards his RAE-5 and increased his points in scent hurdle as well.
News from Judi
It was so good to be at Spruce Meadows again. Friday I judged a Draft Dog test for the Newf Club. I must say that the participants were very well-prepared on the whole and that although we had only three entries that received their DD titles at the show out of 10 entries, it was simply a matter of one little glitch or two that prevented the others from passing. I had a spectator say that having to pass all three different courses (control, carting, and field work) in order to qualify for the Draft Dog title was way too hard and that they should change the requirements. I strongly disagree. The requirements, in my opinion, are fair in that draft dogs need to have all the skills needed in each exercise if they are to be of any real use in the cart. And gaining a Draft Dog title is something to be very proud of. Congratulations to those who passed and to those who came so very close. As always, it was exciting to see a variety of breeds entered in this test.
As for our own dogs, Darryl's sheltie, Drummer, had a terrific weekend at AKC. He picked up a High in Class, a 2nd place and a 4th place in his Advanced Rally B competition and he did very well in scent hurdle, running like a jet over the hurdles to the box and staying focused on his job more than 75% of the time. Of course, playing in the fountain dog spa and barking his head off was way more fun than all that stuffy obedience.
Swayze received a perfect score for his one and only leg of Excellent B Rally, but he lost energy and interest as the day and the heat progressed. He certainly passed a test of his temperament as did I in my ability to leap like a ninja from 6 feet away to the side of my dog, who was in an honor down position, in order to avert an encounter with a great Dane. And I mean GREAT. A HUGE dog that I later found out can be somewhat reactive. Anyway, a sudden leap, an outstretched arm, palm open, and my "I WOULD NOT DO THAT IF I WERE YOU" expression on my face stopped the clock on the Dane and made him think that maybe he'd made a bad decision. My standing still without talking gave him time to process (I could actually SEE it processing) and made it possible for his owner to regain possession of him. Good thing, as I had nowhere to go to get us out of the way in time and nothing to give him to bite if he decided he might. Poor Swayze thought HE had done something wrong when I landed beside him and he buried himself in the mat on his down!! What a good dog. His obedience left me free to deal with the other dog as needed.
Token picked up some more points towards her SHDCh title and enjoyed just hanging out at the dog show and sleeping on the bed.
Karen, Judi and Drummer
Steven, Judi and Swayze
Check the latest blog to find out the results of Due South's scent hurdle endeavor.
News from Denise
Jagged also got her CKC Intermediate Standard Agility title (was High in Trial Dober for agility and rally) Also completed her NADAC Novice Standard title (agility) in her first N. trial.
Viper was High in Class in Rally Excellent B with a 99. A little bird flew up from the floor along the tent wall and we lost a point there. Poor Viper. This was his first trial in well over a year. He did good!
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