Training with Susan
We finally had nice enough weather to hold our last Sunday/Monday training session of the year outdoors. Susan Anderson, who is from Rapid City, comes monthly in the good-weather months to help us improve our handling skills and to help us improve our dogs' agility skills. I take photos of everyone else's dogs and really appreciate Bobbi & Jodi taking photos of mine. I worked Berakah, Chaos & Lively.
Lively (Celhaus Celebrate Life) is a Quinta/Kway daughter)
I usually don't begin competing with my dogs before they're two, but Sunny decided to have some evening mini-trials in August and I thought they'd be great show experience for Lively, even though she was only 21 months old. The first one consisted of two TouchNGo classes. Lively blew a discrimination on the first one (very common in new dogs) but nailed the second class and got her first Q. She even beat Chaos & Berakah, who missed discriminations in both classes. The second mini-trial consisted of two Tunnelers classes, and all three of my dogs Q'd both times - we came home with 6 Q's for the evening. Lively decided she, like Berakah, liked competing, so I entered her in the Labor Day trial in Gillette. I had to work one of the four days but we went the other three. Lively had 5 Q's out of 6 classes the first day, leaving me with my mouth open in astonishment. She had 3 Q's out of 6 classes the second day, and 3 Q's out of 4 classes on the last day. When the dust cleared, she had achieved her Novice Regular & Tunnelers classes plus a leg each towards her Outstanding titles, as well as a Chances Q, two Jumpers Q's, and two TouchNGo Q's, an amazing haul for a beginner dog.
to photos of Berakah at training
to photos of Chaos at training