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Tish CL2

Sunday, December 30th, 2012

Tish has officially finished CPE Level 2 as of today. She went 4 for 4 today at All Dawgs, earning her CL2-R (Standard) and CL2-H (Handler Games) titles. She ran really, really well, AND got her first level 4 Jackpot Q with a score of 62! Yay Tish!

Excellent Weekend!

Monday, December 10th, 2012

I realize that I updated the world with my big news via Facebook, but some of you don’t do the Facebook thing. This past weekend in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, Nina not only finished her Open Agility title to get all the way into Excellent, she earned her first Time to Beat Q (and was the fastest dog in her class, which meant she set the time to beat and earned 10 points), AND her first Excellent Jumpers leg (on the same day as her Open title, so technically a double Q of sorts, the first time she has EVER done that). And THEN Tish earned her very first AKC title with her Novice Jumpers Q on Saturday. Nina missed her second Jumpers Q on Saturday when I forgot to support the weaves properly, the rest of her course was perfect. So much fun, and so awesome to see things finally coming together!

Boom Towne CPE Day 1

Saturday, December 1st, 2012

Tish not only fulfilled my personal Q goal for her of doing the teeter at a trial (she did it twice!), she went FIVE FOR FIVE today. And Nina got a standard Q, now she just needs 12 more for her C-ATCH…
Nina Colors (NQ thanks to the off course):

Nina Wildcard (NQ thanks to the dropped bar on one of the wildcard obstacles):

Tish Wildcard (Q):

Tish Snooker (Q):

NINA OAJ!

Sunday, November 18th, 2012

Nina OAJ, November 18, 2012

In addition to Nina finishing her Open Jumpers title (we’re still sitting on 2 legs in Standard, SOOO CLOSE both times this weekend), Tish ran a great Jumpers course yesterday (no q) and earned her second Jumpers leg today with a lovely q – she drove ahead of me and ran her lines like a Nina! No video of today’s Tish Q unfortunately.

 
Nina Open Standard, November 17 (NQ):

 
Nina Open Jumpers With Weaves, November 17 (NQ):

 
Tish Novice Jumpers With Weaves, November 17 (NQ):

 
Nina Open Standard, November 18 (NQ):

 
Nina Open Jumpers With Weaves, November 18 (Q and Open Jumpers title!):

Eight Weeks Old

Saturday, September 29th, 2012

Tomorrow they are off to start their new lives. Lobo to Walla Walla WA, Cricket to Burlington Ontario, Colby is staying here in town with his half brother Riley, Ollie is going to Delaware and Zhora is staying right here.

Lobo (Alkemi Beowulf del Roble LS)

Lobo (Alkemi Beowulf del Roble LS)

Cricket (Alkemi Braveheart ST)

Cricket (Alkemi Braveheart ST)

Colby (Alkemi Batman LS)

Colby (Alkemi Batman LS)

Ollie (Alkemi Breaking Away LS)

Ollie (Alkemi Breaking Away LS)

Zhora (Alkemi Blade Runner LS)

Zhora (Alkemi Blade Runner LS)

Nina, Tish and Lobo

Pictures From Yesterday

Saturday, September 22nd, 2012

Pictures from 9/1

Saturday, September 1st, 2012

Beals and Connelly

Jim and Connelly

Tish wants to visit

This One Goes To 11!

Friday, July 20th, 2012

…progesterone, I mean. No worries on that front, she was 11 ng/mL yesterday, which is more than high enough. Dr. Hutchison emailed and said to do a spot check middle of next week, but at this point it looks like I am just a nervous Nellie!

Tomorrow Nina will get some delicious Pyrantel dewormer (it’s sweet, they usually love it)…because her official due date is just TWO WEEKS from tomorrow! It’s a good idea to deworm a preggo two weeks out to minimize any parasite load on the puppies – worms have ways to hide from dewormers (called “encysting”…gross), and even moms who have proper heartworm prevention year-round (most heartworm preventatives also kill at least some intestinal parasites), like Nina, can still sometimes pass those nasty Ninja-like worms along to their puppies.

The pet pads from ODC are in the wash (they are recycled and sanitized human hospital incontinence pads, plus the company that sells them employs adults with disabilities, so good for the environment, and more generally good) to freshen them up. Jim has cut the wood for the Kate Original whelping box (we needed a replacement for the slide-out panel), and it can be two different heights now, lower for when the puppies are small (and Nina has a lot of undercarriage), higher for when the puppies are bigger. It just needs sanding and treating with butcher block finish (food safe). This weekend I am cramming in one day of AKC agility at Double Q with Tish tomorrow, and Sunday in Toronto to see my mum and sister, because I don’t want to go too far away after this weekend…getting too close to deliverin’ time!

They all shared a giant sweet potato mixed into their dinners today. They LOVED it. Nina will get some extras like scrambled eggs, too. She is very happy and very large.

Torpedo Shaped Nina

Monday, July 16th, 2012

Nina is becoming steadily more torpedo shaped. She weighs 23.1 pounds today (normal for her is 19-20).
She was nesting under the couch today (dragging a blanket under there with her and digging), so I took her in to work for a progesterone test just to make sure all is well (she hasn’t done it since, but I am a nervous Nellie!), my breeder friend Kim thinks she is just being proactive since she is an experienced momma now. She is eating fine (she convinced Renee to share her lunch when we were at the clinic) and otherwise acting normal. We got the whelping box Kate made for us out and it’s all cleaned and set up.

Nina today (our lawn looks horrid since we’ve had almost no rain here), crappy cell phone pictures:

Nina, July 16, 2012

Nina (with Tish) July 16, 2012

 

Tish says “let’s zoom!”, Nina says “Queen Bulkette prefers not to”

All Dawgs CPE Agility & 3 Weeks To Go!

Sunday, July 15th, 2012

Tish and I went to All Dawgs Academy for CPE agility today. She went 3 for 4 and it was HOT inside! We’re having teeter issues still, but she is running nice and fast, driving lines, developing some nice obstacle focus, and the few puppy brain moments we had were almost all her driving off to another piece of equipment, instead of going visiting. Very happy with her…just need to sort out that teeter! She finished her Level 2 Fun Games title (CL2-F) and is now in Level 4 Fullhouse!

Nina didn’t get to come and play agility, and I know she is feeling pregnant because she barely complained about it. I’ve had some lovely feedback from other Vallhund folks about what a nice choice of stud Tempest is. She was six weeks along as of yesterday, just three weeks to go! I’m getting the shopping underway for supplies (you can NEVER have too many towels!), Jim dragged the whelping box down from the attic, ready to be cleaned and freshened up, I went through my big box o’whelping supplies, threw out expired things and ordered replacements. I will move downstairs into the guest room (AKA the “whelping lounge” located off the family room) with Nina soon, so she is happy and comfortable in there well before the puppies arrive. She is quite round, but not enormous yet, the puppies do most of their growing in the last two weeks. I can feel them moving a bit now, just little fluttery movements, not the comparatively rowdy bumping around they’ll do in there in a week or two. She is having a bit of trouble navigating being a lap dog with her tummy, but she is still very much in the “content” stage of pregnancy, eating well (she loves getting lunch!), very cuddly and mellow, sleeping a lot but still has energy to play with the others (she and Tish had a good-natured jaw wrestling session on the couch when we got back from the agility trial this afternoon), being the queen about having the choice spots on laps and on the bed. We forgot her lunch one day last week and she SHOUTED at us until we realized and sheepishly served it up! She is HUNGRY. I am cautious about overfeeding her, since excess weight can make whelping more difficult (and can give you enormous puppies, too), but I won’t mind if she gets a little bit plush at this stage, since last time she ate very little in the last two weeks, except for bits of scrambled egg and Nutri-Cal that I begged her to eat.