October 2013
Jeez I have not posted here in quite awhile. I lost interest in blogging when I lost four dogs and my cat within two years time. But it maybe time to start up again. I am feeling better about things lately and I have been having a good time with my current dogs. Rift 6yo BC, Trynn 21 month Kelpie and Tryke 5 month old BC Mix.
Rift and Trynn are active in agility and Tryke is my rescue that will do some therapy work hopefully. He only has three legs. He lost one after it was amputated due to a bad break when he was found as a stray. He does well without it and it does not seem to slow him down too much. He is quite the character.
Rift is close to his ADCH Bronze and LAA Bronze. We took time off early this year due to injury. He has ETS but we do OK. If I ever thought he would hurt himself we would stop agility. I am running him in performance so he does not have to deal with the spreads. In AKC he still jumps 20in as there are spreads in preferred as well so it makes no difference. He needs 10 DQ's for a MACH. Hopefully we can get it sometime but not the end of the world if we don't. I don't do that much AKC so it takes awhile.
Trynn my kelpie is just starting out. She is doing great. I need to step up my handling and speed. She is quick. We are not doing standard as yet as I am working on her aframe and DW. We were doing a running DW but due to a fall she lost confidence and it just was not happening so I went to 2O2O. I am still trying for a running aframe but that may end up being a 2O2O too. We have been doing Silvia's Running Contact class twice and Foundation class twice. I really enjoyed it but I struggled a bit with different elements with Trynn. It is all a work in progress.
Tryke is currently in the Silvia Puppy class. We are enjoying it even though it has been slow.
So I have been busy. Taking life one day at a time. Enjoying my dogs!
Rift and Trynn are active in agility and Tryke is my rescue that will do some therapy work hopefully. He only has three legs. He lost one after it was amputated due to a bad break when he was found as a stray. He does well without it and it does not seem to slow him down too much. He is quite the character.
Rift is close to his ADCH Bronze and LAA Bronze. We took time off early this year due to injury. He has ETS but we do OK. If I ever thought he would hurt himself we would stop agility. I am running him in performance so he does not have to deal with the spreads. In AKC he still jumps 20in as there are spreads in preferred as well so it makes no difference. He needs 10 DQ's for a MACH. Hopefully we can get it sometime but not the end of the world if we don't. I don't do that much AKC so it takes awhile.
Trynn my kelpie is just starting out. She is doing great. I need to step up my handling and speed. She is quick. We are not doing standard as yet as I am working on her aframe and DW. We were doing a running DW but due to a fall she lost confidence and it just was not happening so I went to 2O2O. I am still trying for a running aframe but that may end up being a 2O2O too. We have been doing Silvia's Running Contact class twice and Foundation class twice. I really enjoyed it but I struggled a bit with different elements with Trynn. It is all a work in progress.
Tryke is currently in the Silvia Puppy class. We are enjoying it even though it has been slow.
So I have been busy. Taking life one day at a time. Enjoying my dogs!