New and exciting events coming up!

This weekend we took Flash with us to the disc dog competition.  He LOVED everyone.  Couldn't get him to acknowledge that a frisbee existed but he loved everyone and he played with a rabbit fur tug for a short time.  So... Flash is definitely just a foster and is looking for a permanent home.  Several of the folks who met him this weekend concurred... he'll possibly play disc one day but it'd take some work and there is no guarantee.  Should be easy to find him a home though... he's just about perfect other than his continued lack of interest in the disc.  We got him to pounce on it some and bring it back to us but he won't tug on it much and has zero interest in it outside of our garage training room.  However hand him a green tiny stuffed bear and he'll entertain himself in the backyard for 10 minutes with it!  :)  He's so cute!  Jack and I both agree though... if we are going to get a 6th dog it's got to have disc drive right off the bat and the mental stability to handle competing.  Flash had one - not the other.

Well... enter the new and exciting thing.  A friend of mine saw me with Flash this weekend and realized I might be open to adding a 6th dog to the family.  She told me about one she knew was potentially going to be available because of not growing big enough for the breeder's needs.  This breeder herds with her dogs over acres and acres of land.  Said dog is only 16" at 6 months and isn't likely to make it to the needed height to cover the ground she'll need to.  (This in an of itself is an interesting statement on aussie size but I don't have time enough to blog about that).  Anyway... I didn't think much about it that night but decided to run the news past Jack the next day.  He was quite interested.  Additionally there was some chatter about this dog on Facebook later that day so I shared the chatter with Jack and he asked me to email the breeder for the story and I did.

Long story short... there will be a new dog in the house soon!

More info to come but the basics are:
- 6 months old
- 16" and 20#'s
- red merle
- already catching short tosses
- tugs like a demon on the disc
- awesome temperament (currently spends her days entertaining special needs kids at a school)
- related to a slew of dogs that rock at frisbee including our very own Ruckus AND Groovy!

We are very excited!  She'll be arriving Thanksgiving weekend!  Gobble Gobble!

Tomorrow's blog post will be about Groovy's freestyle debut and mine and Tali's 1st place finish in novice freestyle on our 2nd time competing!  :)  It's been a good week so far!