What a Busy Weekend! Flyball and then our Herding Debut!

May brought us the first official tournament for Kiah.  She was given a part time slot on Furry Flash's Shot of Tequila team.  She ran 2 full races on Saturday and then 3 full races on Sunday.  We couldn't be more proud of her- she was awesome- super well behaved the entire time and only had one small bobble all weekend!

You could see the wheels turning in her head the entire time- Kiah is a thinker.

 

Kiah in warm ups

One of Kiah's races

And yes that pass was GIGANTIC woops my bad

Monday we headed out to Dog Tail Ranch  for our first herding lesson.  Kiah loved working the sheep and did very well.  Me? i'm still not sure what the heck I'm doing which is why we're taking lessons.  We're heading back again next week or so for another lesson and plan to do several this summer.

Video of Kiah with the sheep.  This goes right from when she was first let loose with them.  The last two clips are her second time in the pen with the sheep. 

We went with a friend and her Border Collie who had also never seen sheep before and it was really interesting seeing how the breeds differ when working the stock with no training. 

Bella's CARO Rally O debut

April 30th and May 1st showed Bella's Rally O debut.  She is young at just coming 1 year so our hopes were not too much puppy brain and don't get lost.

First round we had puppy brain and well i got lost.  Second round was better but we had a NQ .  But i was super happy with how focused she was.  She NQ'd because she was anticipating- there are worse things in the world that's for sure!

Sunday brought us our first Q.  Our second round was fabulous- but i got lost again.  So our gut feeling from this weekend is that Bella is pretty much fabulous.  The judge on sunday really liked her and complimented her often with comments like "Fabulous working dog who will just get better as she grows up".  I must go back to school on how to read signs and follow directions!

A huge thanks to Venessa at Paws N Train for hosting this trial.  Dayna for helping organize it and anyone else i forgot to mention who put this on.  It's greatly appreciated.  

Sorry no pictures from this weekend but here's bella in her new hair cut at the dog park this week.

Bella celebrating her Rally success at the dog park