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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
First of all, I’m so glad I went. Entries weren’t so great, there was one entry in Utility, one in Open B (the same dog as in Utility) and 6 dogs in Open A. I didn’t count the novice dogs, … Continue reading →
After flunking out yesterday because I missed a sign (what else is new???), we earned our third RA leg today, with a score of 98 and a first place. Quigley did well, there was very little sniffing and he didn’t … Continue reading →
I’m beginning to think Quigley and I just aren’t meant to finish a title in one weekend. :p In our Saturday run we scored an 88, a pretty average run. The first run on Sunday was beautiful, nice heeling, no … Continue reading →
Saturday I’m happy to report that the Terrierhead cooperated at least partially today and we got a very decent 86 points for our first Rally Advanced leg. We won’t discuss the abyssmal heeling performance in Novice Wildcard. After all that … Continue reading →
We did ok in the first trial, even though the heeling could have been a lot better, but I can’t complain.As the only team in the Novice C class we even received a shiny blue ribbon for our score of … Continue reading →
We got our 3rd leg with 86 points and a 2nd place! That makes my little guy UCD FO Mordanna’s Quigley RN, RL1 CGC. Alas, no ribbon photo. Of all things, it just had to start raining 5 minutes before … Continue reading →