News From Browntown/Show Dog Circuit
Auntie Char has some very exciting new to post. Here it is as e-mailed for posting :
Abby, Haley and I had a stellar weekend of competition in the dog sport of Rally Obedience in Fredericksburg, Va. This is a newer style of competition obedience that is sort of like a cross between Agility and traditional Obedience- if you are familiar at all with either of those. In Rally, the obedience exercises (instead of Agility obstacles) are placed around a course designed by the judge. You and your dog “heel” around the course completing the required exercises at each station-usually 18-23 stations, with “perfect heeling” in between the stations. Lots of fun, but requires attention and precision from both dog and handler.
Anyway, the total possible score with bonus points is 210. Haley had fabulous scores of 207,208 and 209 in 3 runs. And…Abby DAZZLED everyone with 3 PERFECT (!!) runs of 210 each. With that they BOTH earned their “Rally Level One” titles with “Awards of Excellence” for exceptional scores. With 37 dogs in the division Abby won FIRST place (in a run off!) and Haley THIRD. There were lots of great dogs with really high scores, so we really felt great about our wins!
Afterwards one of the judges shook her head at me and said “You have 2 lovely working dogs!” Another lady came up to me later and said “Do you realize that everybody here wants your dogs!?” We will now continue on with training for Level 2 and then Championship levels. Oh, and by the way, we beat a Border Collie AND an Australian Shepherd!! (Those 2 breeds excel at these things!).
Keith had to stay home and bale hay with John Deere (HIS absolute favorite sport!!) but I kept him posted by cell phone the whole weekend (thank heaven for those cell phones!). He is very proud of us girls!
Now Auntie Char has to begin digital photography so she can take pix of the shows and post photos of the girls performing! To think that Abby came from the Humane Society after a miserable life as an incubator for pit bull pups!! She is a star now!
4 comments:
Way to go Auntie Char, Abby, and Haley!!! Great job!
Wow!! Thats awesome Auntie Char!!! A true working dog dynasty in the making, a force to be reckoned with in the show dog world, I am sure!
CONGRATS!!! to all of you Char. That is just really great. NOW, if Abbie & Haley's cousin could just master walking in wet grass, we'd have another "agility" test mastered. Great job with the "girls".
Abby and Haley are very prissy about wet grass too-but they sure enjoyed the creek over there the last time when they got hot!? Thanks everyone for the congrats!
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