Wednesday, November 21, 2007
First snow of the season
Betty saw snow for, I think, the first time in her life. We just got a dusting that stuck to the grass. Big, fat, fluffy flakes were coming down pretty good this morning. I took her outside to potty and she looked at where the grass had been earlier and then looked at me. She looked up at the flakes coming down and back at me as if to say, "What gives?" Then it was off to the races flying around the yard in leaps and bounds!
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Been awhile.......
We've been busy with classes lately, and trying to unsuccessfully get Cash's last leg for his Rally Advanced title. I think the scare he got back in July at the NKC show (train went by and blew it's whistle when I had him out to potty, followed by a LOUD squeaky dolly carrying 6 crates of yapping MinPins just as we were ready to start) settled into his little psyche more than I thought. I think I'll wait until Spring to try for that last leg and in the meantime keep working with him in classes.
On the good side, Friday night was the last rally class for this session and we had a little competition among the class. He came in second and got to choose a toy. Of course it was the biggest squeaky tug toy that Zoomies makes. Since Betty accompanied Cash to class and Thursday was Betty's first birthday (Happy Birthday, little silver hooligan girl) she also got to pick a toy and chose the second largest squeaky tug toy.
Betty's last agility foundation class is tomorrow morning. Oh yeah, THIS morning. Insomnia sucks, BTW. I digress. She's doing great in class and tries everything asked of her with much enthusiasm. Belinda said she needed a job (besides beating the crap out of Cash all in fun, don't cha know) and boy, was she right!
Cash's agility classes finished this session last Wednesday but I still haven't been told if we graduated to Handlers class yet. I sure hope so since he is now slamming the teeter while holding his contact, has solid contacts on the A frame and dogwalk and can do 12 weaves consistently. I'm taking him to Kansas in mid December for a NADAC trial to see how he does in a trial setting. Should be interesting.
Update:
Back from Betty's class. She was on FIRE today! I bought her a new tug/treat bag and she loved it. She tugged with me 40 feet from her crate to the plank, hopped up on the plank and drove to the end and then tugged all the way back to her crate. We had a big jackpot treat party at the plank and her crate. Also she was driving through a partially stretched out tunnel after only seeing the tunnel for the first time last Sunday and it was all squished up. She is just amazingly smart! Now my only hope is her handler holds up her end of the team. Melissa, our instructor, told me she is kicking us out of Foundation 1 and we move on to Foundation 2 when classes start back up in January. Yay!
On the good side, Friday night was the last rally class for this session and we had a little competition among the class. He came in second and got to choose a toy. Of course it was the biggest squeaky tug toy that Zoomies makes. Since Betty accompanied Cash to class and Thursday was Betty's first birthday (Happy Birthday, little silver hooligan girl) she also got to pick a toy and chose the second largest squeaky tug toy.
Betty's last agility foundation class is tomorrow morning. Oh yeah, THIS morning. Insomnia sucks, BTW. I digress. She's doing great in class and tries everything asked of her with much enthusiasm. Belinda said she needed a job (besides beating the crap out of Cash all in fun, don't cha know) and boy, was she right!
Cash's agility classes finished this session last Wednesday but I still haven't been told if we graduated to Handlers class yet. I sure hope so since he is now slamming the teeter while holding his contact, has solid contacts on the A frame and dogwalk and can do 12 weaves consistently. I'm taking him to Kansas in mid December for a NADAC trial to see how he does in a trial setting. Should be interesting.
Update:
Back from Betty's class. She was on FIRE today! I bought her a new tug/treat bag and she loved it. She tugged with me 40 feet from her crate to the plank, hopped up on the plank and drove to the end and then tugged all the way back to her crate. We had a big jackpot treat party at the plank and her crate. Also she was driving through a partially stretched out tunnel after only seeing the tunnel for the first time last Sunday and it was all squished up. She is just amazingly smart! Now my only hope is her handler holds up her end of the team. Melissa, our instructor, told me she is kicking us out of Foundation 1 and we move on to Foundation 2 when classes start back up in January. Yay!
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