Thursday, November 30, 2006

Wish us luck!

We go for our first AKC Rally Novice leg tomorrow! : )

Saturday, November 11, 2006

Long busy week

We spent way more time in MA, then we usually do this week. Tara got Rally, Obedience and Agility classes this week. We pretty much went down early to start getting ready for our RN. But being there alot of extra time got her to meet a lot of new dogs this week. She played alot with a boarding 12wk old lab named Yoshi, they had an awesome time. And on Monday night she got to play with a Ridgeback puppy named Jasuri, Sadie - an adult great dane, and Wyle - her ACD friend. So that was fun. Then on Tues. after obedience she got to play with Deja an Aussie puppy. On Wednesday, after agility class, she got to play with Steiff, our instructor Carolyn's 6yr old Parson Russell terrier, who by the way is an ADCH and a MACH, wow, so awesome, we can only hope to get there someday. Anyway, she just had a great week with lots of play to make up for the extra car time. So now we are cracking down on rally again, we have to really work on our moving down, I haven't done that with her in a long time. I did it when she was a little puppy alot, but haven't really worked on it since. Anyway, this is just a quick update. : )

Friday, November 03, 2006

No HIC for Tara in '06

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I blew it. I didn't get our paperwork in on time. So no fun herding for Tara this weekend. Hopefully we will get at least one herding lesson in before the year is out. We'll see how money is.

Have I mentioned that Tara thinks she's little? I think that she thinks she's the same size as Orion. As of late she has been stealing his favorite bed, which is round and about 14 inches in diameter on the inside. She gets all 4 ft in and her tail, head, and half of her body hangs out. I have yet to get a pic of her alone in it. The picture shows Orion in the bed and them together in front of the fire. So that gives you a size comparison. Did you know she lies in front of the fire too? What is she thinking? She's a collie, not a chilly chinese crested. I'd think she wouldn't want to be near it. Silly dog. She thinks she's little and cold.

Anyway, just wanted to post a quick update, we get to go to another Rally class on Monday, and then we get a few wks off from class and then we get a few more classes along with 3 days of trials. I've decided to not do Springfield with her, because I'm supposed to have boarding dogs for Thanksgiving and I don't think I'll be able to make it, and instead do at least 2 days of the Bay Colony show in Boston, instead of the one I was planning on, in addition to the day of Fitchburg. So we've been taking it easy with the training but we're going to be getting back to it again soon. Yesterday on our off-leash walk she got to enjoy the fine delicacy of lots of icky deer poop, which I wasn't crazy about, but I couldn't stop her from doing it every second. She's not eaten so much of it before, but hasn't seemed to have any ill-effects today, unlike her brother Orion, who threw up last night (assumedly from the deer poop) and has not been feeling well all day. Weird.