Here is Ollie (Alkemi Breaking Away LS) at 10 months (some pictures include his sister Sky, who is a Border Collie/Corgi – you will notice that Ollie has continued the great Vallhund tradition of ear-biting). Ollie is studying hard at agility class and will hopefully join his sister in NADAC when he’s ready:
Pretty good day today. Tish earned her Novice Fast title, and WEAVED (a bit), Nina earned an MXJ leg (#4) for 16 more MACH points and was close in Standard, she did all the tricky stuff but I put her down wrong and she knocked the first bar (she knocked a bar later, too, but that was because I decided to book it and just run like hell!).
Nina Master Standard NQ:
Nina MXJ Leg #4:
Tish Excellent Jumpers (NQ but she did 10 weaves and ran well):
Here is Colby (Alkemi Batman LS) at 10 months. He weighs 20 pounds (his big brother Riley (Alkemi Aston Martin LS) is 26 pounds). Colby was one of the “littlebit twins”, with Cricket, but he is growing up nicely!
Colby and big (half) brother Riley
Colby
Cricket (Alkemi Braveheart ST) and Zhora (Alkemi Blade Runner LS) met again for the first time since they were babies last weekend at the Aurora Kennel Club show. They were very happy to see each other!
Here is Lobo at 10 months, he is 12″ tall and weighs 26 pounds (his sister Zhora is 23.5 pounds and the same height, little bit sister Cricket is 16 pounds). He’s been busy, participating in agility demonstrations and working on his obedience and tracking with his mom Jan.
Check this out! Zhora is currently the #6 Swedish Vallhund in Canada! Thanks to her one point! Heh.
Nina finished her AX AND got her first MX leg (with 34 MACH points!). Tish weaved twice and would have qualified in JWW once if she hadn’t had to go say hi to the ring crew…good weekend overall at Countryside!
Nina’s AX run Friday:
Nina’s first MX leg Saturday:
Tish’s almost-Q Jumpers run:
No Q’s, but look at this run (Nina’s JWW run today, just a bobble at the weaves but what a nice run!):
Nina qualified in Time 2 Beat on Friday (and comfortably set the time to beat for 10 points), and qualified in BOTH Jumpers and Standard today (not technically a double Q, since she is still in Excellent Standard, but MORALLY a double Q!). Tish didn’t Q but had some really great moments. She would have qualified in Excellent Jumpers today if I’d managed a turn a little better (she is still very green and didn’t have the experience to be confident about a tricky turn, but she weaved on her first try and that one refusal was her ONLY FAULT!). She had 2 refusals in Open Standard today because I didn’t end up where I’d planned for the table approach and she went right past it. I was very pleased with her overall, though, she showed some real flashes of brilliance and seemed to be really having fun.
Tish Excellent Jumpers yesterday (4/13) – included because even though she gets a major green dog brain attack and goes wandering off and then zooms, it’s one of the first times I’ve seen her show what kind of speed she is actually capable of (that’s why I asked for a few obstacles to see if I could get her to actually DO AGILITY at speed, and she DID!) – Tish is capable of running MUCH faster than Nina, but she doesn’t yet have the confidence to do it in agility, since she is a perfectionist and doesn’t want to make a mistake (UNLIKE Nina!). You can hear my friend Linda (who kindly records for me) say “holy cow!” when Tish really turns on the turbocharger:
Nina’s Master Jumpers With Weaves from today (a Q for a first place and 17 MACH points, and would have been even faster if she hadn’t almost taken that off course tunnel, she slammed on the brakes and hit the sandbag, but the judge told me we were still OK as I ran by – she didn’t cross the plane of the obstacle so it wasn’t an off course):
Nina’s Excellent Standard Q from today (leg #2!), a couple of close calls, but we did it:
Tish’s Open Standard run from today, an NQ because of two refusals, but a nice run for her!
Zhora took best of breed today at the Norfolk Kennel Club CKC show for her first Canadian championship point! She showed really well (considering she is 8 months and 1 day old) for her first time out, marched around the group and puppy group rings with the bigger dogs no problem! She was good on the table and made the judge smile when she jumped up on her to say hi after a nice stack at the end of her down and back. Very pleased with my baby pup. Back tomorrow for more.
Zhora’s First CKC Point: 4/7/13
No points today, but she showed well (and the judge gave the BOB a group 4, so she obviously really liked her). You can’t even see her tail in the picture, she was wagging so hard.