We are off this morning to Pennsylvania for the National Specialty show. this should be a hoot. All Cattle dogs all the time. I am sure we will have lots of stories, pictures and adventures when we get back home next week.
In the meantime here a few photos of the dogs enjoying the new Expedition.
They love it and are ready for the trip.
Take care everyone! See you in a week.
Last weekend's show was Kindle's first time actually staying in the camper. I had given her a tour before so it wouldn't be a scary place.
She was mostly enthralled with her crate in there.
Indeed it was difficult to get her out of the crate.
She liked peeking at the other dogs through the sides.
And let everyone know it was hers alone!
What a character!!!
She slept quite well but then being at a show is exciting for all the dogs so they generally become snoring logs after they eat dinner. Next Friday we leave for the Australian Cattle Dog National Specialty in Pennsylvania for a week so this was a good dry run.
Well the fall season is upon us. I have been so busy with my pup Kindle my blogging has gone to a back burner and I have been very remiss in updating you, my 4 faithful readers, on how the dogs are doing in agility.
This last weekend we were at a USDAA show in New Hampshire and it was a bit of a challenge for me. Kindle has been going through a fear/bratty/barking stage of development. If you have never experienced a cattle dog shriek I just can't explain it. But suffice to say it is truly brain melting. Really! I'll tape it for you so you can experience it too.
I digress, Kindle was barking incessantly and I could hear her while in the ring with Jackaroo and it was very distracting. Saturday my handling was terrible. Despite this we did manage to qualify in Master Snooker. The amazing part of that is Jackaroo knocked a bar so we lost about 6 points but still Qualified. A testimony to how fast my boy is.
By Sunday I had settled down, as had the puppy, and Jack and I had a couple of decent runs. We were just shy of qualifying but I loved the courses. Here is our Master jumpers run. Jackaroo knocked 2 bars and incurred a refusal but it was still a nice run. and really fun!
Please no comments on my running style. It's not too bad taking into account I have no cartilage left in my knees.
So to date Jackaroo has won this year so far:
In AKC (American kennel Club):
In USDAA (United States Dog Agility Association):
We have a few shows left this fall season and I think we may do a couple winter inside shows so stay tuned to see what my boy will do next. I have to check with Scott On Beta's statistics I can't keep hers straight she is doing so well.
Ok so I thought I was getting that silver truck but as it turns out we found a better deal and it's red!!!
Oh it's just so gorgeous! And my wonderful husband told them to put in a remote starter! Woohoo! No more cold truck when I leave work at 10PM in the winter. Oh joy! I bet the dogs will love it too.Here is a pic of my new truck. Pretty spiffy huh?
I probably won't get it until early next week and I just can't wait!!!
We have been shopping for a new vehicle. My present Ford Expedition which is much used and much loved has about 147,000 miles on it and is starting to show some wear. So we have shopped around and seen a few choices. You would think in this age of energy efficiency when everyone is buying up hybrid cars it would be easy to find a whole bunch of gas guzzling big honking SUV's we can fit 5 dogs in. But it has not been easy.
We finally found one tonight. Well its not exactly the one I wanted because its silver and I didn't want silver, I had a silver Expedition for 7 years. (Big sigh.) But the price, the mileage and everything else is right.
So soon I will post a picture of the new Expedition. It is very pretty and drives nicely. It also has a CD player which I didn't have before. So truly I am happy. Too bad you can't paint a vehicle as easily as a room.
Stay tuned.
So many of my friends have also gotten puppies this year. This means Kindle has an steady supply of new playmates. My friend sheila recently got this cute little bundle of energy. Meet Echo!
Echo is a Pembroke Welsh Corgi and is just 11 weeks old. (Right Sheila?)She is Kindle's new best friend. See!
Oh they have fun!
I am so proud of Scott and Beta they had an absolutely gorgeous Master Jumper's run on Sunday at the ARFF's Agility Trial in Westford, MA. It was just flawless and wonderful to watch.
Go ahead watch it!!!!
They qualified and took first place. What a team!!!!!
