{"id":1269,"date":"2011-11-16T20:55:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T03:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2011-12-16T23:03:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T06:03:47","slug":"svca-national-specialty-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=1269","title":{"rendered":"SVCA National Specialty Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We arrived last night after 11 hours of driving (well, I drove, the dogs just slept the whole way and never ONCE offered to do their share of the driving!). Today was herding about 2 hours away from the host hotel. If I&#8217;d been smart, I&#8217;d have stayed closer to the herding site&#8230;oh well! Severe weather today, lots of rain, some thunderstorms, tornado watch&#8230;but the show went on!<\/p>\n<p>Tish&#8217;s herding instinct test (her first official test, and only her second time seeing sheep at all!):<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3o0g3W0V_tE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nShe passed, she kept the sheep very close to us (performing a lovely figure 8, and nearly making the sheep knock me over &#8211; as the judge said more than once, herding IS a contact sport!). She did a lovely job of switching off her herding power at the end when I asked her to (you can see her ears go into &#8220;friendly Tish&#8221; position and her tail wag). A good &#8220;that&#8217;ll do&#8221; is a very important thing to have!<\/p>\n<p>Nina&#8217;s first official AKC instinct test:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/brtTBZ1rZ5g\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nShe thought about snacking on some sheep tails near the end, but didn&#8217;t do any damage and backed off when I told her to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We arrived last night after 11 hours of driving (well, I drove, the dogs just slept the whole way and never ONCE offered to do their share of the driving!). Today was herding about 2 hours away from the host hotel. If I&#8217;d been smart, I&#8217;d have stayed closer to the herding site&#8230;oh well! Severe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,54,62,67,51,55,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding","category-dog-training","category-dogs","category-nina","category-puppies-dogs","category-tish","category-vallhunds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}