Last Chance

What a fun night!
It was our final rally class before the trial at Spruce Meadows this weekend. Amanda set up 2 courses for us, one was a Novice course & one was an Advanced course. I also brought Tate to have some fun.
Kim came to judge & marked us just like we were in a trial, score sheets & all :)
Let's start with Kort.
He did awesome! He did not bark at me, which he likes to do when I have no treats & he thinks he should be getting rewards.
He NQ'd in the Novice run due to handler error!!!... geez, "I" missed a sign... duh! In the Advanced run, off leash I might add, he took 1st place with a 97!, What a good boy! He had a bit of a hard time leaving the dish with the toys in it but he did. I am confident about this weekend with him & will have fun no matter what. We have worked hard, & it is starting to show. I am VERY proud of Kort!
Now for the Tater dog!
Tate loves to come out & do things, he is so funny, he prances around the ring. In Novice Tate took 1st in the class with a 98! Whoo Hoo! In the Advanced run he scored an 88, due to handler error again!!!!! I messed up a station & lost us 10 points...my bad!
I hope I get my head together before this weekend & don't do anything else stupid :))

Tate

Tate's out for a quiet stroll, minding his own business......

Oh Oh, look who's coming, it's Lacey !......
Someones Got A Crush On Tate :) ......





Just a brief interruption & he's off again :)......

A Little Bit Of Sunshine

Whenever I need to cheer myself up I just go look at my flowers :))

Freshly planted......

1 month later......

Freshly planted......

1 month later......

This is the first blossom on these little yellow sun bursts....

I LOVE these ones, they are a pretty orange colour that my camera doesn't quite show, & the little pink ones are so cute......

More Perkins :)

On Monday I went to visit with Perkins & his dad Brian. When I had to leave suddenly to go home to Thunder Bay I was dog sitting Perkins, Wendy was able to take him for me until his dad returned. Perkins was very happy there as he has known Wendy longer then me!
Brian took these 2 pictures of us while I was there.....I love them, especially the one with Perkins falling asleep on my lap.

Yeah For Kort !

Tonight I went to Kort's agility class...I wasn't going too, I find it weird to be around alot of people right now, I'm not "quite" my strange weird self! :)) I decided I would go, I had a great day today & I knew Kort would love getting out.
I am so glad I went! Kort was awesome, at first he was a bit distracted, I guess it's been awhile since he's had to focus.

The class started with some obstacle discrimination, a jump to a tunnel, my job was to make sure Kort took the tunnel & not the dogwalk....he did quite well after a few bobbles :)), then it was the jump to the dogwalk, Kort found this more difficult, he wasn't quite seeing the dogwalk...but again after a few bobbles he did great....his contact at the end of the dog walk is awesome!, he stopped himself each time , 2 on 2 off, yippee! We then had to take the tire jump, for some reason he chooses to walk along side it, rather then jump....hmmm?
I was able to send him through the chute once while Deb held the end open for him. You may recall at the last agility match there was no way Kort was going through the chute :))

The next half of the class was fun fun!! It was a speed circle of 14 jumps, one being a spread jump, & one tunnel, we had to put in a front cross to get into the tunnel, but the rest was just running & jumping! Kort has never liked to jump, from day one, however with Sarah's help tonight he was really moving...she had me carry my whole bag of cheese while running, at the end I would throw the bag over the last jump & Kort would get a big cheesy reward :))

I could not believe how well Kort did jumping tonight, in the match a few weeks back he would take 2 jumps then run into me, tonight he looked forward, took direction & ROCKED IT!!!!
Kort is entered in his first agility trial at the end of August, after tonight I am feeling much more confident !

Here is a totally unrelated picture that Amanda sent me & I just crack up looking at it...you have to know Wicca, Amanda's dog, to really see the humour in this picture....let's just say that Wicca is one Alpha girl & nobody touches her unless Wicca wants to be touched, no one that wants to live anyway :)) Apparently Kort has a death wish !