Tish got her first-ever double Q today! She earned her first leg in Novice Standard and first leg in Open Jumpers With Weaves! I stupidly didn’t ask anyone to record our JWW run (in which she did her first-ever 12 weave poles at a trial!), but here is our Standard run:
And BIG congratulations to Tish’s sister Demi on finishing her Open Jumpers title!
Video taken December 31, 2012 of Lobo (Alkemi Beowulf del Roble LS) tracking. He is just FOUR MONTHS OLD! His mom Jan has done a lot of tracking with her Malinois.
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!
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!
Here is Lobo at 4 months:
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):
Ollie’s mum Pat sent these great pictures of Ollie. Pat says: “As you can see he is growing fast now. He is as tall as his best friend, corgi Sandy. My very reactive dog, Sky, is now very tolerant of him and they even play. As I have never seen her play with another dog, this was a real treat to watch. Ollie attended his first agility trial two weekends ago. Ollie made progress walking in and out calmly and working with me around other dogs. It was a horse arena, I did not do well keeping him distracted from bits of horse poop. Seems my treats are not as good as them. Ollie can now sit, down, shake hands, and is learning left and right. He has a stay at mealtime but not translated well to a stay in general so we are working on that. Everyone who sees him is crazy about him. I can go nowhere that I don’t get stopped to tell all about him. He is a great Vallhund ambassador since he just wags and loves every one he meets.”
Awesome!
Ollie and his Corgi best friend Sandy
Headless Corghund!
Ollie and Sky
Ollie and his now much-smaller moose friend!
Ollie and G’day
Here is Lobo stalking and pouncing on his new Sheltie friend Sophie:
Creeping up….
GOTCHA!
…that Vallhunds can be extremely useful. As the dishwasher prewash, for example:
Lobo demonstrating the “prewash” service included with all Vallhunds.
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!):