We did some running dog walks

She comes off the edge a little. Maybe I need some poles at the end? And we sure need to work on speed, but her last one was faster! She's really fun. Loves her ball!!!



I am auditing one of Silvia's on line classes for running dog walks. REALLY interesting. Am I obsessed with running dog walks? YES!!! I admit it!! Whatevaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh...............

What's your dog's favorite toy?

That was asked of us the other day. The boys absolutely go NUTS over the lunge whip!!!! And it makes a great training reward for doing weave poles!!! -

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I did not think he was super fast, but he had nice contacts here and did the "Jackpot", which was the tunnel to the back side of the jump, then a-frame and jump (for those who don't know, in a jackpot there is a line on the floor that the handler can not cross and the dogs must do the obstacles from that distance). Not many people got it, so I was pretty proud of the young guy. The crowd cheers were sweet! He is definitely a fan favorite!!! And he wracked up more points than anyone. :D



Then in standard he refused the teeter. It was a much softer landing and quieter teeter, but just being that it was different worried him. I made him do it, then he really picked up speed, good man. He missed the entry to the first set of six poles, which is SO not like him, but it was definitely a different set up with two sets of poles to discriminate and visually strange. Fun course for CPE, which can normally be quite simple. I thought he did the serpentine quite well and I managed my front crosses nicely!! (Pat, pat, pat on the back for ME! LOL!!)

CPE trail "champion", again!

I swear, we sometimes feel like show-offs! Spur just ROCKS the CPE trials. In Jackpot and Fullhouse he got more points than ANY dog there in ALL levels. Just nuts!! The crowd loves us and the cheers are really sweet!! Spur LOVES that!!! I wouldn't say he was all that fast, but fast enough, I guess.

His dog walk contacts were lovely. Not super fast, but all good hits. He did one nice teeter, then the second time in his standard run he refused it damn it. It was a different teeter. A nicer one, actually, but I think he is so used to that crazy loud one there that it surprised him. Good to change it out and I made him come back and do it. And he was faster after, good little man!!!!

We only did those three runs because I had the shih tzu's here and wanted to relieve Rich of his dog sitting duties. He was just nappy by the woodstove anyway, but still he was on watch.

Roscoe didn't run that well his first run, so I scratched him. He hasn't been that happy there lately. Not really sure why. I think it has something to do with the smell. They are using it as an indoor dog park, ICK, and the dogs piss and shit everyone. It's disgusting. And it was COLD. The heater was broken. The club better get some money back, that's bullshit to rent a heated indoor facility and not get HEAT!!!!

I do have video if I find time to load it later. Today is sort of a day off and I have lots to do!!! I have one kitty visit later, but no other obligations. YAY!!!!!

It's school vacation week and I am busy!

I have fewer dog walks, but more visits. Kitty visits. Left my clipboard at a job last night, my last time there, so now I have an extra, unscheduled visit this morning, damn it!

The shih tzu's are staying here, too, and with Douce's new IBS treatment, his meals are often and complicated. Lots of meds, poor guy. But, he sure seems better!! Nothing like good drugs to help him feel better! So glad to know what was wrong with him, he looked SO down last year in agility and life.

Colby went to Rally class last night and did awesome! Right turns are hard for her as she now only has her left eye to see me. She kind of needs to learn to forge on right turns and circles. She'll figure it out. And she is worried about bumping into the signs, but that, too, I think she will figure out.

I did fine out that she CAN compete in AKC obedience with only one eye. I asked a judge at the last AKC trial we did. She said the dogs must have "reasonable vision", which she certainly has, so that's cool!! YAY! She loves her rally work!

Yay, stitches are out!!!

The new look of my pack...... I'll get a better picture later.

Here she is stitches gone. Not too happy I am taking more photos of her I don't think......

A little freeze dried fish perked her up some!! LOL!!! Hey, she just looks like she is winking!!

GREAT weekend trial report from BARK!!

Our team Q'd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was HUGE!!! I have screwed it up twice for team, so I really wanted to pull my weight this time. Spur was ready and he LOVES the BARK site and busy trial, so it was his turn to shine and SHINE he did!! I only have one video I will post later. I really must get better at grabbing someone to video because he had some awesome runs! Nailed his contacts every time!!

We had one very frustrating NQ in team jumpers when my hand whacked one of the poles and TWEET we got an E. I didn't really understand that because later in the day a friend ran into a one of the tunnels and got a 5 point fault. So, how is that different from my hand touching the poles?

Anyway, regardless of that bobble and my team mate having two E's Spur had some extra good runs to boost our point rating and put us 12. The top 15 teams Q'd, so we pulled it off!! YAY!!! I am SO very happy. I just hated to cause an NQ AGAIN, so it felt really great to get that Team Q yesterday. Especially with Spur running SO well. He beat Blink and won his standard run on Saturday which felt incredibly good. Yes, I know he spent some time making sure Blink stayed on his contacts, but STILL on the score sheet Spur was before Blink!!! Wahooooo!!! Just to be able to say we beat Blink is HUGE!!! :D Feels really good.

Then all weekend I kept hearing people talking about Spur. "Who is that cute little black-tri dog who is doing so well??" and one person asking my friend Cindy about him and then saying......"And he's fast, too!!".......I just beamed!!!! That guy made a point to come up to me and comment about how nice a dog he is. I felt like the proudest mamma!!!! Other people who know him also made comments. And all were well deserved, he did awesome!!!

Roscoe ran first all weekend, so hearing me pull Roscoe out and run him first caused a bit of jealousy and by the time I returned and pulled him out he was so HIGH!!! Screaming to run!! He was very fun! Had a BALL!!!!

Roscoe ran great, too, but his team mate made some major bobbles and we didn't get a team Q. Roscoe never E'd, good little man!!! Got "snookered", but still got 22 points, and he got tons of points in gamble, so he sure pulled off his part of the deal!! That's OK Roscoe already has two team Q's and we really don't need a Q for anything. He's twelve, I don't have plans for him other than slowing down some and taking it easier. He ran two nice runs on Saturday, placing third in Standard and getting a lovely gamble Q. Good little old man!!! I believe he ended up top over-all 12" dog in the performance point standings!! :D It was very good weekend!!!!

Spur's gamble run. I must have lost my balance and veered off, pulling him off the a-frame, damn it! It was a pretty easy gamble we should have gotten. But, I am SO pleased with his dog walks. Especially the second one. He was going pretty fast, good little man!!! Got off the start line a little slow. You can see the plexiglass window was rattling for some reason. I think that happened when people came in the door on that side of the building. Strange and it bothered him a little as we set up, but then he recovered nicely and took off!!!