Saturday In Rochester

Well, I have to say that Saturday was a hoot. Marla, Grace's breeder was up here visiting and showing with her was a riot. We learned alot and laughed all day and well into the evening. In the breed ring, as I expected Grace didn't do anything, but really she is still missing quite a bit of hair. And in all honesty I only took her for fun.
The best part of the day was that Diana's boy, Dandy finished his championship. He picked up a nice 4 point major with his BOW win, which means he finished with 3 majors and a few smaller wins. (hey, I actually put one point on him this spring.) Garrett's girl Zoe got the girl points. her breeder was there as well and was very happy, I think the whole building heard her scream of excitement!
Then came Brace obedience. I have been practicing with them together, and they did a pretty good job, with a few problems, but nothing horrible. If it were a regular class we wouldnt have passed, but it was good experience and that is what I wanted there.
Then we had Magic in Graduate Novice. He earned a 182.5 if I remember correctly. I knew he would have issues with heeling and he did. I worried he woudl have issues with mouthing and dropping the dumbell but he didnt so that was good. All recalls were good, although overall he really shows that he doesnt care for obedience.
In the Rally Advanced ring, though Grace certainly showed Marla just what a character she can be! Let's just say it was not a steller performance, but heck I am not complaining. Grace hasn't been out since before she was bred and she was super happy to be out. She refused the jump both tries, and I realized that she hadn't ever seen a panel jump so that was my fault totally. At home we practice with bars, and when she was at agility training last winter, we didnt have panels there either as it was the winter site. Then after that she was squirrelly, jumping up to bump me and being a goof. But she did all the other excercises and once she calmed herself down finished nicely. We managed a mercy Q, and actually got 4th place beating the other 71 point finisher for 4th place. (she and I laughed and laughed together afterward too). Kind of wish I had pictures of this one as she was being goofy because you sure could see that she was enjoying herself immensely.
After the show, a bunch of us got together and laughed and ate and had a really good time. Its so much fun when you have a group of really great people together.

A picture from the UKC show

The pictures from the UKC show came and wow are they bad. Here is one of the few I could tolerate, once adjusted and cropped. In all of the pictures with the judge, the photographer cut her in half, so I I will just show you one of the better pictures of Peace by herself!

Dog Show tomorrow

Tomorrow all the corgi's and I are going to Rochester for the dog show. Grace is entered in breed. It's really just for fun as I have no thoughts of her winning, she is still rather missing her britches, but she loves the dog show so why not. And as long as I was wasting money on entry fees that I realize we have no possibility of success with, I decided we would enter graduate novice with Magic, Brace obedience with Magic and Grace and rally advance with Grace. Now, of course the 2 non regular classes are just for fun, (I know odd sense of fun, humiliation in the ring) but Rally Advanced may be a stretch for Grace. Grace is a funny girl, sometimes she is so good, but other times she is so naughty. I am really hoping for the good girl tomorrow. I suppose it will depend on how mad she gets when we have her bath and do nails! Time will tell.

The pups are coming along too. I must be nuts.

Wordless Wednesday

UKC Show

Well today Peace and I went and played at the UKC show. UKC has a non licensed class for 3-6 month puppies, so we decided to give it a try. UKC shows generally are smaller than AKC here in Minnesota, but they are a bit more relaxed and usually hold 2 shows a day. There weren't a lot of puppies, but Peace won Best Novice Puppy in Show in both shows. She was really tired by the end, and I am not sure she really had fun, but I sure did. Hopefully by the next UKC show, Grace will have enough hair back that she can go play too.

Training, training and more training!

Ok, I admit I am not the most energetic person, and I really am basically lazy. I really should have thought more carefully about the training issue with 2 puppies. See, originally I was only keeping one pup-Siren. Her coat as a pup was straight, thick and full but straight. We loved her attitude and I really liked her best overall of the girls. So we decided that she was the pup we were keeping. I started working with her at around 8 weeks and now at almost 4 months old, she has a nice little heel, a fairly good come, a consistant sit and the quickest flop into a down of all my dogs. I love this little girl.

Peace on the other hand, is JUST like her mother. Those that know Grace I am sure are already laughing. Peace chooses when to recognize her name. Come is a wish, sit is an option and well, we haven't even considered a down yet. She has a fabulous gopher sit though! Do you think we can win any cute points?

Did I mention Train Wreck???

Yup, it was a train wreck. In jumpers we got 2 refusals, one at the weaves and one where he spinned around to find me. In standard he jumped his contact on the dog walk and took a sliding run right off the table. However, by late afternoon when he was hot and crabby, we did manage a Q in FAST. The timer malfunctioned and we were probably over time, but the judge said it was a couple of seconds and we had 8 points extra so we got the Q anyways. Here is a link to the photos.
http://crystalimagepetphotography.com/Rochester-Op-Nov-Std8-30-08-www/bg_img_3174.html

All performance aside, I had a very nice day playing with Magic and visiting with friends, so all in all it was great.