A good weekend

Sketcher had a good weekend at the ASCA trials.  I went ahead and put him in Rally on Saturday since we were there, and he earned his first two RN legs with First both times and High Other Breed.  He was actually High in Trial, but apparently in Rally that only goes to the Aussies.  Or not the Novice dogs?  Dunno - I should read the rules some day!

Suede also had a go at Rally at the pm trial and actually earned a leg, with Third out of three!

Sunday Sketch finished his CD in the am trial with a less than stellar performance.  He had a 200 except for the off lead heeling when he got something up his nose and required two corrections.  He ended up with Second (only two Q'd) and High Other Breed.

He made up for it at the pm trial by winning with a 199, gaining High in Trial and High Other Breed.  Here he is with all the loot from the weekend.

Afterwards he and Suede had a nice run amok.

More training

This weeks shot of training.  I'm hoping to finish his ASCA CD on Sunday!

 

It's a start

Stays on a Tuesday morning, at Robert's house in Norco.

What a good puppy!

His time has come!

Today, Teaz finished her OTCh.  Finally.  Took her over two years and many many retrains, but she did it.  So now, I can finally focus on Sketch!

Sketch celebrated, tho he didn't know why  ;-)

 
 

Arizona!

The first three trial weekends are in the Phoenix area and despite it being a desert, we've been dodging rain!  Not that it bothers Sketch any but I'm not really up for playing in a downpour.  So we only went out between showers.

 

 Which results in a dirty nose.

 

So we did a little playing in the van.

Later he and Teaz posed in front of local flora.

MERRY CHRISTMAS 

AND

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

NAHRA fun

Last weekend we went out to Arizona for a NAHRA test.  Sketcher had a great time and easily finished his Started title.