RAE leg #4
To think that I didn’t even plan on making our RAE qualifiers this much of a focus at the end of the year! Somehow I just can’t resist this rally addiction. Today was a very small trial, but I’m glad … Continue reading →
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RAE Leg #3
More success today! We had some fits and starts in Excellent, including some bounciness and (again) a not-so-great honor sit, but we qualified with 83 points. I really need to work on that sit, that’s the second time we got … Continue reading →
RAE Leg #2
Plugging along on the long haul, and now we have 2 legs out of 10. Yay! We only had 2 mediocre runs (84 in Excellent and 82 in Advanced) since Quigley was a bit too hyper and bouncy and we … Continue reading →
Yet another rally title!
With scores of 98 and 95 out of 100 Quigley and I earned our UKC Rally Level 1 (URO1) title last weekend. Unless another new obedience or rally venue appears in the future, this was the last class where we … Continue reading →
RAE Leg #1
To my dismay I have not found any notes on this trial in my old records, other than the scores of 78 in Excellent and 87 in Advanced, but I’m convinced there was an IP in that Excellent run. What … Continue reading →
Today it’s a brag – New AKC CD!
We went back to Santa Barbara today, for the second day of the show. Overall our performance was a little bit sloppier than yesterday (Quigley missed two sits – one on the heel free, one at the finish after the … Continue reading →
The good and the bad of Obedience Novice A
We didn’t qualify today, but I’m so proud of my little guy. It’s been over a year since we have done regular Obedience, I was focusing on getting our Rally Excellent title. Quigley likes Rally much better because you are … Continue reading →
AKC RE, part 3 – we got our title today!
It’s been a long time since we managed to get two qualifying scores in one weekend, but we did it! Our run wasn’t the best, I had to re-do two exercises plus got points off for accidentally touching my dog … Continue reading →
AKC RE, part 2
We had a nice, calm run today, competing on a surface other than grass for the very first time. The ring was set up in a parking lot near the Queen Mary, directly on the water, and had rubber matting. … Continue reading →
Moving up: AKC Rally Excellent, first leg
Yesterday Quigley and I competed in Rally Excellent for the first time. To me it’s a big deal, since this was the anniversary of our first-ever AKC Rally Novice and Novice Obedience legs last year. We got a score of … Continue reading →