RAE legs 17, 18 and 19
This is a combined report on the last 3 shows, the first of Saturday, August 14th – hours before we took off on our trip to Durango, the second one on Saturday, August 28th and the third on Sunday, August … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Rally – Venues
Quigley made the Front & Finish Top 10 in Rally!
It seems like I’ve waited for ages to see this in print: Quigley is ranked #8 Parson Russell Terrier in the Front & Finish Ratings for Rally Combined (Advanced + Excellent classes). Until someone told me about the magazine’s ratings … Continue reading →
RAE leg #16
Slowly plugging away on that next RAE level. We had two nice runs today, even though in Excellent there was another disagreement about the proper procedure of a halt-call front between me and my Terrierhead. I think this is an … Continue reading →
Halfway to RAE2! (aka, RAE leg #15)
Today Quigley and I went to the Great Western Terrier obedience and rally trial. What a fun show – terriers all over, and great vendors! Watched a cute Bull Terrier run in Utility A, and while the team didn’t qualify, … Continue reading →
RAE Leg #14
After three shows where we just couldn’t get double qualifiers for one reason or another, we finally managed another RAE leg today. It felt good to break that bad-luck streak. Got beat to 4th place in Excellent by a few … Continue reading →
APDT Rally in Goleta
I’m finally recovered enough from 3 round trips to the APDT rally trial in Goleta (just over 600 miles total) to post a summary. lol I’ve never managed to get all the required legs for any title in a single … Continue reading →
2009 AKC Event and Title Statistics
I’m so excited. I’ve been waiting for this to be published for sooo long and it’s finally here! http://www.akc.org/pdfs/events/statistics/2009/EventTitleStats.pdf Parson Russell Terrier: * 10 CD (Companion Dog – Obedience, Novice level) [completed: 8/30] * 3 CDX (Companion Dog Excellent – … Continue reading →
First round of UKC Rally double qualifiers
We are finally back home after a loooooong weekend. I’ve never driven this far for a trial. 315 miles each way is just too long, and Modesto isn’t exactly a destination that has much to offer. But it was an … Continue reading →
The next milestone: UKC Rally Level 3, and a bit of Open Obedience
We finished our URO3 (the equivalent to RE in AKC) with a score of 90 and a 3rd place. I’m so happy about this, since from now on we’ll be able to work on collecting points for the UKC Rally … Continue reading →
My dog is defective!
Yeah, the one who jumps 5 feet high to lick my face, and takes flying leaps off the deck in the yard. He NQ’d in Rally Advanced today because for some reason he thought that a broad jump is for … Continue reading →