A day in Arizona

We headed out to Waddell, AZ ( a little west of Phoenix) for two obedience trials in one day.  It was HOT ...

... which is apparently what is needed to get Sketch to settle down and focus on the job.  The first trial he won Novice B and then was High in Trial and High Other Breed.

Then in the afternoon trial, he repeated all those wins and had a better score.  I was doing my best to not melt into a puddle.

He's in there someplace, behind the ribbons and fans!

On to Cashmere

After we got back to Iris's house from Tennessee, we headed up to Cashmere, WA to see if Teaz could finish her OTCh.  The answer to that was no, but Sketcher had some success.  He earned his CGCA and was Third in the Adult group at the B match - out of three.  ;-)

He also got a chance to swim in the Wenatchee River, which ate two of his bumpers!

And he posed with the fall colors.

Nashville

We are in Nashville at the CCRCA national specialty.  Iris and I drove cross country in her Sprinter with seven dogs, including three boys and a bitch in season.  Fun ....

I couldn't resist bringing Sketch's center of the universe tag!

We went to Sheri's on Sunday to train for the WC/X/Q tests on Monday.

Even tho Teaz did well in Sunday, on Monday she didn't even get one bird, sigh, so after it was all over I let Sketch enjoy the water.

Swimming!

We drove up to Reno to see if Teaz's obedience attitude has improved (it has) and to show Suede in the breed ring to make a major for Iris's Bella (except, she didn't win either day).  On the way, we stopped at Topaz Lake as usual and the dogs had a great time.  Above is Suede and below is Sketch.

We spent Saturday night at Auntie Iris's so of course there was fun in the pool!

 
Sketch doing a cheesecake pose poolside.

Then it's time for fun!

 

UKC

We spent the weekend at UKC obedience trials, for Sketch's obedience debut.  Each run he had one brain fart, including going down on the sit at Saturday's second trial but then it was 102° so he had an excuse.  In the end, he had three decent scores between 193 and 196 and earned his U-CD.  We also did the SPOT test, which is their version of the CGC, and passed with flying colors.

YUM!

training, training, training!

A couple of screen grabs from the video I made at the Long Beach group last Friday -

Stuck

We are stuck in Great Falls until Tuesday or Wednesday, I won't say why because it's just too embarrassing.  So here are pictures of Sketch having fun!

 

Isn't he just the cutest thing?