Flower of the Week

A Spring Day

Hope everyone enjoyed the weekend!

Beautiful Babies!

Yesterday Striker and Rollo competed at their first conformation show. Their handlers said the dogs were very comfortable in the ring and showed well.

Rollo took Winners Dog and 2 points towards his championship!

Congratulations to all.

This Saturday

More Contact Work

Congratulations!

Sunday

Peanut took 1st place in Jumpers at the CPE trial. Sue said there were 4 pugs at the trial, all black, and they were all silly in the ring! Surprise, surprise!

AKC Events

Merlot took a 1st place ribbon in Excellent for her 2nd Standard leg. Don't they look happy.

Zorro made Christy proud earning his 1st Open Jumpers leg on Sunday. Too bad the sheep sculpture wasn't the prize!

photos by Charlie Rose

Chudleigh hit all his contacts on Saturday to earn his second Standard leg in Novice. He was 1 1/2 seconds faster than the 2nd place dog so Christy got to pick out a BIG prize for him. Hope he doesn't hit Rollo in the head with it!

Good Luck this weekend!

Have Fun

and

Hit the Yellow!

Sunny Saturday

Today was the last day of Session 1 for both classes.

The next session will be another 4 week Saturday one. Dates are at the top of the blog.

After the May 1 (Sat) class we will switch to 6 week Wednesday evening sessions.

Enjoy a dry weekend!

Belated Birthday Girl!

Merlot has such a sweet baby face, who would have guessed she is 9 years and 2 months today!

Happy Belated Day!

P.S. Don't forget to respond to post below or bring note on Saturday.

Saturday Class March 13, 2010

First Class - Hopefully you have been working on your stays, we will see how everyone is doing in class and hopefully move on to the next step. WORK THOSE STAYS!! If you need a review look at the video of Ube a couple of weeks ago.



Second Class - This Saturday we are going to be doing contacts. Please respond back with a comment or bring a note to class about your contacts. How do you want you dog to perform contacts? Is you dog having a specific problem with the contacts? For example my answers for Inc would be for contact 2o/2o with head down, and no we are not having any specific problems.


Let us know, we will be watching, no comment we won't know if you like what your dog is doing or not.

See you Saturday!! Have a good rest of week!!

Congratulations Merlot!

Merlot earned her first leg in Excellent Standard on Sunday. Helen Marie had kept her out of Standard for a year to work on the "Two C's" - confidence and contacts. Looks like it paid off!

Congratulations Chudleigh!

A Blue Ribbon

for

First Novice Jumpers leg

Weekend Wishes

Good wishes to those heading to Dixon this weekend.

May Your Skies Be Blue,

Your Ribbons Green

But Above All

Have Fun!

Belated Birthday Girl!

Happy 2nd Birthday (plus 1 month) to Lea on Wednesday!

Saturday Class Cancelled

Next class will be March 13. Check the blog, we may give you some training ideas. Session 2 dates are revised above.

Birthday Boy!

It's hard to believe Inc will be 5 on Saturday.

The puppies started arriving about the time

The Incredibles won the Oscar for best Animated Film!

I think Donna singled him out from the start!

Happy Birthday!

Beginning Class Exercise and Susan Salo

Beginning Class - Last week we started working on stays using either a toy or your bait bag. The attached video shows you a progression to work on. We hope to see improvements from last week on your stays. See you Saturday!!

Susan Salo - we would like to see if there is enough interest for us to try to bring Susan Salo in for a seminar. We can't give you a cost until we speak to her, but it is roughly $100.00 (+) each day. If you are interested would you attend a one day seminar or a two day seminar. Please give it thought, as we don't want to invite her if there is not enough interest. Thanks for responding.

1st Title!

Helen Marie reports that baby boy Striker passed the 10 exercises required to earn the AKC Canine Good Citizen Certificate. At 5 months old it looks like he has a long career ahead of him! Congratulations to Striker and his owner/trainer!

For a description of the 10 exercises check out: http://www.akc.org/events/cgc/training_testing.cfm

Oh My! ANOTHER Puppy!

Her name is Tess.

What breed do you think she is????

Guess who she belongs to??

She's a liver colored Brittany and she belongs to Sue and Mark Ingalls!

More puppy breath with a wiggle butt and stubby tail.

How wonderful!

Congratulations!

Birthday Boy!

Can you believe that Ube is one year old! His class had fun.

Let us know your dog's birthday so we can honor them on the blog. If you have a favorite photo send that as well. If not, we'll try to take photos in class.

For those of you who did not take the last quiz, Donna posted the answers in the comment section.

Check out the next session schedule at the end of the header above.

Saturday's Class

Class #2 should arrive by 10 in order to work a short exercise prior to the start of your 10:15 class.

This week it is tire to the weaves. If there are several of you waiting, rotate through so that you practice this approach three times.