training

We were at one of our training groups this morning and Sid was taking pictures of the stay line-up.  Who is the cutest boy there?

Success

Saturday, both Teaz and Sketcher passed the Started test, earning their first legs.  Today only Sketch is entered and so far he has aced the land test, so we only have two more water marks left.  He is really enjoying this fetch stuff!

Throw it already!!

Waiting semi-patiently to do the water marks on Sunday.

Two legs!

Fieldwork is Fun!

We are in Arizona, attending a NAHRA trial this weekend.  Teaz is only entered once, to see what I have to work on before next weekend when she had BETTER finish her JH.  Sketch is entered both days, just because!  Today we did a little training, since we have done next to nothing since last fall.  Sketcher approved ...

Catching up

Sketcher has been traveling and training, but won't be ready to do any more AKC obedience or rally for probably another nine months at least.  He has discovered he is male and is having a lot of trouble with focus and impulse control, so he needs to get out of the teenage stage before he does any off lead trialing.  We will give ASCA and UKC obedience/rally a try and see how that goes, plus work on his WCX.  I also need to focus on getting his mom's OTCh finished (only 44 more points to go!) and Rapid's UD as I'm hoping by this fall I will be able to show more at home.

Until then, he'll ride along with Teaz and destroy the toys she wins ...

 

Be "stuck in the middle" with me ...

and relax at home!

Whew

We just got home from a month long trip, beginning with conformation shows in Vallejo, then on to Helena, then back to Sacramento for the CCRCA national.  We of course did zip in the conformation end, but in obedience Teaz picked up six OTCh points in Helena and HIT at the national.  Sketcher finished his BN and RN with First places in those classes, and both dogs earned their UWCs.  Sketch LOVED doing the UWC!

Both pictures by Gramma Sarah.

We stayed at Auntie Iris's house and as usual the pool was a big hit.  Sketch is such a good son, "helping" his mother out of the pool by grabbing the bumper ...

Photoshop is phun!

And friend did a little work on the picture that I had in my last blog post ...  ;-)

But, of course!

We went up to Spokane, which was a bust since the best we got was a Third in Utility one day.  However, we also went over to Wallace, ID which is about an hour east, to do some touristy stuff, and get this picture -