Bella's Agility Adventure

Last month we started into Agility lessons with Bella.  She is absolutely loving it- (though that tire sorta made her think "why" for the first time this week). We have a few weeks left of classes and then a break until spring.

Here's a video of bella working the teeter.  This is the first the teeter has been high enough to really TIP she did really well with it.  (Ignore our bobble with the last jump- Teri and bag= treats the rest of the lesson so why not now? )

Thanks to my son Aiden for coming out and using his new playbook to get this video for me 

Kiah Finishes Her CKC Ch.

We've had a successful September!

Balgonie was our last planned show for the season- on sunday Kiah got Winners Bitch and Best of Opposite for 2 points finishing her CKC Championship.  Now we get to put those great little two letters in front of her name not just letters behind!

Kiah will retire from the show ring and go back to concentrating on performance stuff.  She's currently doing obedience lessons with my daughter Jillian and is getting back to working with the sheep.

Thank you to Judge Davida Brown from NZ for this wonderful end to our show season.

Back to Herding

Well after a huge delay with Kiah's injury this spring and then her recovery we are happily back herding.

Kiah would like to state she's a bit out of shape. 
Hush wants to say "Sheep ROCK"
Bella wants to know why she got left in the car :)

Hush showed some great interest n the sheep and had a great first introduction to them. Hush's litter mate Kacie was out as well and showed good interest in the sheep though she was not too sure how close she wanted to get today.

Kacie

 

Hush

 

 

We have the dog show next weekend- but plan to do herding weekly as long as the weather permits!

Saskatoon Show- A Success

We had a very sucessful weekend at the Saskatoon Kennel and Obedience Club show. 

Bella finished her CD title (Novice Obedience) with another High in Class.

Kiah gained 3 winners, 1 best of opposite and a total of 6 point.  She is now just 2 points off of finishing her Canadian Championship.

Overall a very good but busy weekend!

Girls go Swimming at the lake

We really haven't gotten to the lake much this year- which is sad since we live 5 whopping minutes from it.  This weekend we packed up the trailer and headed to Danielson provincial park. Bella has never gone swimming.  Usually she just has too  much hair for the amount of work it will take to dry her out and prevent matting.  But right now she's clipped down short so she got to swimming.  Hush has only ever waded into the water once (Other then the swimming pool) It was awesome to see how much both girls really enjoyed the water.  Kiah as always loves the water

 

Hopefully we'll get out to our lake near home a few times before it's too cold to go swimming!

Little Miss Chill

Hush is such a laid back girl. It's sorta weird.  All the dogs go running she's up for fun.  But lazy time? this girl loves her sleep.  She was always the one annoyed by her sisters (who all enjoyed 4am way to much).  And she has perfected the art of total relaxation. Most evenings find her on her back wedged into the back of the couch.

Bella finishes her Caro Novice Title

Bella went to Paws'n Train's CARO trial this weekend. We had 3 sucessful runs.  She had one Q from last year.  First run- would have been a decent score in mid 180's but I forgot a sign WHOOPS! 2nd run scored a 186. Her tail knocked a sign down near the start and it spooked her a bit but she did great staying focused otherwise.  And sunday morning we finished our last leg with a 195, and high in class.  Good job Bella! She's my poodle rock star.