Some of you may still remember our Rally Marathon last year. Well, I’m completely addicted to Rally so we did it again, and also some Obedience on top of that! The nice thing was that the dates were not quite … Continue reading →
Compared to earning our RAE at the big AKC show in the Long Beach Convention Center (with a “new title” photo taken by a professional photographer and all that jazz) it was a bit anticlimactic, but I’m so very proud … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
Woohoo! On Saturday morning we earned our third URO2 leg, completing our title. In the afternoon we got our first leg for URO3, which was also a 2nd place. Unfortunately I screwed up in the Sunday morning trial, going around … Continue reading →
Part 4, Wednesday, Dec. 9th And today, RAE leg #9. It was weird doing rally in a ballroom inside a convention center. The carpet was covered with plastic “cling wrap”, and in the rings rubber mats were laid out on … Continue reading →
Finally another UKC trial! It’s too bad that there are so few in So Cal. Saturday We had an ok run today, getting our first leg in Level 2 (equivalent to AKC Advanced) with a score of 83, and 1st … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →