Last weekend I went up to Cleveland to attend a judge’s seminar for AKC obedience/rally. I’ve intended to go for at least 10 years and never made it until now! I’m really glad I took the time to go. While judging AKC obedience/rally is not my goal – I do Read more…
This weekend we hosted a rally trial (heeling event) and Tonks had new accomplishments. Level 1 We received two more passes to finish her first level title. This included one run with a score of 209/210. Here’s a video of the moment where she lost that point. Thanks to Raegan Read more…
We hosted a World Cynosport Rally (WCRL) trial last weekend. It was our first time ever hosting a 2 day trial – and it was easier than we expected! I had all three dogs participate – Griffin did well but not our best, mostly because I was distracted. We broke Read more…
I’ve been judging for the World Cynosport Rally program for about two years. That judging has primarily been at our facility and so that we could keep entry costs as low as possible for our exhibitors. A few times I’ve been asked to judge elsewhere but usually those requests come Read more…
One more “Griffin is the best” post is necessary. On Friday we did an AKC obedience trial. He was great. We need to do more training but also were able to show many things we can do well. We did Novice, Pre-Novice, Beginner Novice, and Rally Novice. We got a Read more…
This post is part of a series about our 2016 USDAA TitleMania and Rally World Championships experience. Click here for an overview of the event. Click here for our agility overview. Click here for 15 year old Blaze at the dog beach. On Friday a regular titling trial was held and one run Read more…
We’re so busy! May 8 – WCRL Rally – We hosted a trial, I did some judging and I ran Griffin. Viktor was still young enough to get his last leg for his “puppy” title but the only other judge present had given him his first two legs so we Read more…
January 1st started with a happy thing – picking up a new puppy. A month later, things weren’t quite as happy as Viktor has some very serious structural issues and won’t be able to do the kinds of activities I wanted to do (obedience and agility) and he isn’t allowed Read more…
Two days after our first AKC obedience trial, Griffin and I were up in Minnesota and did agility. Griffin has not been to an agility trial for about 18 months – at the last event he did a total of 3 jumps all day (and a few months after that Read more…
Something interesting happened after the post. We hosted a WCRL rally trial on August 23rd. Griffin is not allowed to be running yet so we did the Level 1 (on leash) class. I haven’t been training him on any of these skills because he’s not supposed to be moving very Read more…