DACOF 2011 is complete and we rock!

DACOF 2011 was a BLAST and to top it all off our team ROCKS!  Victorious Secret came in 3rd place out of 55 teams!  One spot up from last year where we placed 4th out of less teams (can't remember how many from last year).

More importantly though it was a lot of fun and Tali ran really well.  She hadn't been feeling 100% leading up to the competition so I was worried that she'd miss a lot of weaves and/or drop bars.  Well she only messed up 1 set of weaves, had 1 dropped bar and looked very comfortable running so I consider that a huge success.  She was able to contribute to the teams score on 3 out of her 5 runs - she's a nice consistent dog (minus 1 rd anyway) for an event like this.  Check out her runs... thank you to Sarah and team for videoing!!


Tali VS DACOF 2011 from Sarah Duke on Vimeo.


Spice came along to be a cheerleader and because I wanted to see how she'd handle the environment.  She was awesome.  Super friendly with everyone, curious about the dogs running, willing to tug near the rings, etc.  Just her general awesome self!  :)  Hopefully she will be running in Novice on Team Victorious Secret for DACOF 2012!!  :)

Worrying is over and DACOF is coming!

All went well with Spice's hip xrays last Friday.  She came through the procedure just fine - the staff loved her AND her hips look great.  We'll get the official word in another week or so but the vet who did the PennHIP eval said she felt confident they were nice.  Take a look yourself.... this is the OFA view - 1 of the 3 views they do for PennHIP.  We also got her elbows done so those are going off to OFA.  I'm not sure if her hips will go to OFA too or not.  The drawbacks of having your hubby do the deed.  I had to hear about it all after the fact.

This weekend coming up is DACOF - Dog Agility Competition of Florida.  Love this event!  Tali is running in Open again - just goes to show how little we trialed in the past year!  She earned her OA title but she's still eligible to run in Open in DACOF until she earns her AX title.  No worries there!  Hopefully she does well... she's been a little off lately.  I don't think she can handle cross training.  That or something involved in either doing weaves, the dogwalk or 20" jumps bothers her in a way that doing freestyle and D&A does not.  We've done very little training this week and kept her to just toss n fetch - hopefully she can stay sound for the weekend!  In any case we'll have fun running with the team!  Power of the Pink!  And little Spice gets to come along to cheer everyone on - yay!!

Sitting here nervous...

while Jack is en route to a new vet we've never been to before with precious cargo known as Spice!  She gets her hips done today... fingers crossed all goes well with the procedure and that she's got no orthopedic issues!  We don't have a good track record in this department (2 out of 4 who have been tested have issues)!  Here's hoping and praying we can beat the Fahle dog odds!