Dog show

This past weekend we were entered in both conformation and obedience, but since I had a virus of some sort, all I could handle was the conformation.  All that running around the ring with various dogs damn near killed me, but it was worth it as Sketcher won five more points, including a major!

 

Four in a row!

At hunt test the next weekend, after some work on manners and reminders that he is shore broke, Sketch earned two more legs to finish his JH title in four straight tests.  Saturday was a slam dunk, Sunday was harder and the second land mark made me stop breathing for awhile, but he finally picked it up.

 

Sunday the club had run out of Junior rosettes so we "only" got the title band for now.

 I took some cheesecake pictures of Sketch ...  ;-)

Field fun

It appears that Sketcher has earned his first JH leg.  He pinned all the birds and his line manners weren't too bad, but we had to leave before the ribbons were handed out so nothing is set in concrete yet.  We go back tomorrow for another go, so I'll find out then.

Of course, Sketch had a lot of fun!  This is from training on Tuesday, the only day we could get out.

Update 11/5.  Sketcher earned two JH legs, rather easily.  His major areas of needed improvement are that he insists on dragging me to the line, and noise as he leaves the line.  We will work on that this next week, as we have another test next weekend!

 

A great finish!

We ran out to Phoenix for a one day night trial, and Sketch outdid himself.  He finished his UD, won the class for his first two OTCh points, and placed Second in Open for his first UDX leg!

We are already entered in three trials, two classes, in Wenatchee plus I got overnight parking AND I have to drive Suede up to Iris as she came in season, so we will do those trials, and the NCCCRC trial the next weekend, then obedience will be on hold for awhile to see if he can get his JH next month.

 

Leg two

We are now in Richland, WA for four trials.  Two on Friday, the first one he just flat couldn't do articles because of some smell near the pile, but the second one he managed to hold on for his second UD leg and to actually win the class!  Only two dogs out of 10 Q'd and since he was third to last to go in and no one had Q'd up to that point, I was pretty nervous!

Two more trials, here's hoping he can finish this weekend!

The jinx is broken

After 11 trials of mostly just messing up one thing, we finally got it together and Sketch earned his first UD leg, with Third place only 1/2 point out of Second.  

Most of his points were lost on the go backs, which have been a chronic problem as I think he doesn't see the point of going all the way if he's just going to come back to jump!  I'm confident he will eventually see the light on that tho.

We are in Helena - today it started to snow but it isn't sticking so I guess we will be all right!

 

Woo whoo

We are in Northern California for four days, flunking Utility - the day after entries closed, directed jumping fell apart.  On the weekend, Iris came out and we did breed; one day Sketch was BW and won two points!

 Photo by Iris.

We won't talk about Sunday ...