Flyball Flyball Flyball and exciting news is just around the corner

Yes its the theme of our summer.  The end of July saw us down in Craven for another flyball tournament.  Once again running with Furry Flash- we ran on an open team with several new dogs from another team.  Kiah also ran start position for the first time.

The best part though is kiah is starting to LOVE her job at this sport- she gets revved up- she wants to run and be fast.  She knocked an entire second off her previous running times with a new personal best of 5.134 seconds.  And she's just starting to put some speed on she's got lots more left to use.

We have three more tournaments in this season- we head back down to Regina in august and Craven again in september then we'll be back home in Saskatoon for the Diamonds in the Ruff tournament.


And then our winter is going to be full of puppies.  I will be announcing in the next few days who we're breeding kiah to.  And I'm very excited with what this pairing will bring us!

Shiney and cute after a bath this weekend

Disc Seminar

This weekend we were so lucky to take part in a disc seminar.  Kiah loves playing her frisbee and now i know  bit more of what Im doing! aka 'im not screwing her up quite as much as before and sometimes throw even sorta straight.

By the end of our weekend we came out with some tricks, a better understandng of how to compete in disc, a small freestyle routine started and a really bad sunburn!


Kiah is typical aussie, her air and flips are by far her strong points.  So far we have  good start on:

• back vaults
• front vaults
• over the legs
• weaves
• scoots
• around the worlds
• Leg vaults

We are going to practice all winter and are aiming to take part in some demo's next year!

Kiah loves her frisbees

Air is her specialty

Yes please bounce on mommy- this goes against her life rules and took a while to talk her into but once she got it she loved it

Working on flips with Lara

More flips

An awesome flip

Our attempt at a flip

It was very hot this weekend and this was the doggy dunk tank.  Apparently it also served for some snorkling for my kid!

Another Flyball Title for Kiah!

This past weekend was yet again another flyball tournament.  Racing with Furry Flash Kiah is showing herself to be one solid little flyball dog!  She raced with several different team line ups- passing in and back into strange dogs she's never met with barely a blink of an eye.  She finished Sunday up with her next flyball title FDCH-S (1000 points).   She now has to run quite a few more races to get her FDCH-G which is 2500 points. 

I'm so proud of how this girl is coming along and she's a blast to run in the lanes.  She's fun to travel with- easy at the tournaments and gets along with almost everyone.  She also showed she had a lot of heart.  She cut her leg thursday and it was quite the bleeder but was in the lanes saturday with out a thought.  We wrapped her leg to keep it from tearing and run she did.  She's quite the work horse- even when she started to tire she did her job.

Furry Flash Tournament-FdCh Title

We've  just  gotten back  from  Kiah's  third  tournament.   Kiah  ran  part time  on  her  team.   Sunday  the  team  won  their  division!    Kiah  also  earned  her  FdCh  title this  weekend. 

Kiah  showed  how  solid  she  is  becoming  as a flyball  dog.    We  had  several  bobbles  happen  around  her and  she  did  an  awesome  job  keeping  her  eye  on  the  ball.  :) 

Kiah loves babies and spent lots of time kissing Lilly.  No lilly isn't riding her here... I  think 

Kiah  showing  off her  great  box  turn

Starting  to  put some pedal to the metal

Herding day #2

Monday we headed out to do some herding again at Dog Tale Ranch.  Arlette is great at reading the dogs and is teaching us lots.  So far like anything i'm learning it's ME who needs to learn more then the dog. 

Kiah was not feeling 100% as she had an upset stomach the night before (That's what happens when you break into the meat and eat 2x what you should!) but she still got some good movement with the sheep. 

Next weekend we're off to another flyball tournament!

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