Dodger
Finished his OTCh in March by winning four straight Utility B classes and a High in Trial on the last day. He semi-retired from obedience but still won HIT and HC at the CCRCA national in April, and HC at the NCCCRC specialty in October. He also finished his ASCA CDX and earned an ASCA UD leg, plus finishing his GN and OM2, and earning his GO. He is focusing on field work now, passing the WCQ again in April and learning a lot from flunking Master tests. ;-)
I had hoped to continue in agility with him, to finish his MXJ and NF, and get started on his MX and maybe go further in FAST, but it just didn't happen. He enjoys field work far more, so with the time he has left I plan to do as much of that as possible. He has two HRC Seasoned legs, so if we can get to one of their trials, we'll see if we can finish that too.
Proxy
Earned her CDX with class placements, her UD with class placements and now has 15 OTCh points, a UDX leg and a good start on her OM1. In the field she earned her WCQ in April and will begin on her SH in 2012. And we finally got around to enough conformation shows to finish her Ch! Really glad that's done!
As with Dodger, I'd hoped to do some agility with Proxy this year, but she barely got any training, much less entered in any trials - as of Jan 1, 2012 it will be two years since I've been to an agility trial! If I can handle it, I hope to have her ready to run by the CCRCA specialty in September - we'll see. Working on her OTCh and SH take precedence.
Teaz
Earned her WC in April, two RN legs with a Second & First place, a BN leg with First place and a handful of Ch points. Next year she'll go for her JH, finish up the RN and BN, go on in Rally and maybe start in obedience. She's also doing a little bit of agility training, mostly weaves and I guess we'll try a few conformation shows too.
Joining us next month to ring in the new year will be the first Schipperke I've had since high school (a very long time ago...). Having four dogs in training, particularly two in advanced field work, will be a challenge! But, I should be traveling less so hopefully I will have the energy to go with the time.
In other news, the redo of the house continues. Almost all of the kitchen cabinet doors are paint stripped and we are starting on the wood that frames them. Rick finished mudding & sanding the foyer and primed it, and is beginning work on the beam in the TV room. Guess I need to stay home more to work on that too!
