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Saturday, September 15, 2012

CCC 2012, Colorado

Work has been crazy for me. It's starting to ease up. We decided to go to Colorado this year for the Colorado Canine Challenge. We haven't gone there since 2008 I think. In 2008 it was a bad experience for all kinds of reasons. This year I felt we should give it a go. This is one of the biggest disc dog competitions in the world and is very tough. I think they said something like 15 states were represented at the competition!

This is the first time I did freestyle with Tooney since she reinjured her shoulder. She did great and ended up something like 15th place. She is awesome! She also made the cut for the toss and fetch but was too tired for the final round to be able to have a chance at winning that.

Enzo and Slayte both made the cut in freestyle! I was so excited!!!! Enzo ended up taking 2nd overall. Yeah, 2nd! I am so proud of him. Slayte is already getting high freestyle scores and he has not really performed in competition like he does in practice. I think that's going to change soon and I can't wait for it. He's so good, but he usually doesn't have the energy and mental fortitude to be able to do it on competition day. I think towards the end of this year things are going to start improving for him and I can't wayt!!!

Monday, September 10, 2012

LG is in Excellent!

LG is in Excellent A in both JWW and Standard after just 6 weekends of trials. He is so awesome and so easy right now. Only thing that I don't like is his startline. I seem to be able to get to where I need to by saying Wait! but he is pretty pushy and always gets up. Actually he always lays down and then stands up and takes a couple steps. Now that we are out of open, I am going to take some pressure off of him on his dogwalk and teeter contacts and see what happens. I've been telling him to wait to make sure he stops but seems to be causing a little creepiness so I am going to try to not say anything. His running aframe has been right on the line often but I feel like he should get it eventually. He is not one striding so that is good. He already has two ExA JWW q's!

Here is his Open Standard run which finished his OA title



Here is his first time in Excellent JWW.


There are more videos on youtube but I am not going to post them all here.


It's been really hot here too. 90s-100s for the past month. I am ready for cooler weather but I am glad to see that Slayte is ok with working in the heat. When it is this hot my brain doesn't work that well. Enzo hasn't gotten a double Q in quite some time so we still need 3 more for nationals.