Loooooong overdue update!

Sorry for the lack of updates. Not too much going on. August 10th Tinky played at the K9 Klubhouse trial at Country Lane Pet Resort. We had a lot of fun, even playing a tunnelers run (that Kessie *tried* to play too). It had rained a lot the whole week before, and downpoured the night before, so the fields were MUDDY! Tink had some good and bad runs, including an awsome Master Standard run where she took the wrong end of a tunnel because I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but it's was hard not to fall! Though I did manage to stay on my feet all day! A lot of the vehicles were getting stuck in the feilds too... we defietly got down and dirty at this trial.

The following weekend, Tink, Kes and I went with my friend Tricia to go camping. The girls loved the water, and Kessie's started to get the hang of swimmng, though she's still not it's biggest fan. (Pictures coming soon... I hope!)

Then last weekend, Tink and I went with Natasha to Acton for a AAC and CPE trial. Tinky finally earned a first from some stiff competition and her 3rd Master Gamble Q, and her Master Gamble Dog of Canada title (MGDC). For a dog that loves to gamble, it seemed to take forever to get that final Q between near misses and complete disasters! She had 2 Master Standard runs that were quite so pretty. For the CPE trial Tink earned 2 more standard Q's and her Level 2 Standard title (CL2-R).

We have the long weekend off from doing anything, then 2 disc and 2 agaility trials coming up for the month of September!

Spot On... at Spot On

Off to Spot On today. Tink was having a bad weave day, never doing weaves right the first time all day! The day started off with Steeplechase, Tink's total time, with 5 faults for a knocked bar was 37.72, and she needed 38 or better to Q. So we made it by a mear .28 secs! That was our 10th Steeplechase Q and with that Tink earned her Master Steeplechase Dog of Canada (MSCDC). Master Standard wasn't pretty, but there were some great points. Natasha and Tink ran Advanced Standard, there was an off course chute that Tink just had to take. Tink was in Team with her classmate, Cinders. During the run, Tink hit the entry on the weaves, then went out, then we started it again, and finished fine. I saw the judges hand go up for a refusal. The rest of the run went well, and Cinders' run was clean, so after the run, I approched the judge abount the weaves, because in Advanced, weaves are not faulted as long as the dog makes the entry. So the fault scratched. Thankfully, because otherwise we would have been overtime. So the girls got their final Advanced Team Q, and Tink earned her second title of the day, Advanced Games Dog of Canada (AGDC). Master Jumpers was last and though I almost got lost, the run went very well until the second last jump, when I tried to rear cross, causing Tink to spin, and take down a bar. I was still very happy with the run.