Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Wow - I suck!
Has it really been since July since I've blogged? I guess Facebook is my blog. That suits me better. Short and to the point. :)
Well let's see... had a great time at Skyhoundz. Tali qualified for freestyle at the last chance qualifier which is probably one of the hardest competitions around. We were amazed and surprised. Spice came in 1st in microdog at the qualifier (very cool but not as hard to do as what Tali did) but that qualified her for worlds as well! A very very exciting day for us! Tali didn't have enough oomph to do 2 days of competition so didn't fare well at the actual worlds competition but she at least did better than last year. Spice did great for a baby dog with no routine finishing 8th in microdog! Can't wait to see what they do when they have a routine!
On to AWI Finals at Purina. Jack and Tali were qualified so we drove 17 hours to Purina Farms. It was a quick but fun trip. Tali did well enough to make the cut to the 2nd round but speaking of cuts, she cut her tongue in the 2nd round and that pretty much ended her routine right there as she isn't the type of dog that can work through that. :( One great thing from the weekend is that Jack played Groovy in D&A on Sunday and she did great! She's been doing pretty well at doing FS in public the past year or so but just hasn't been brave enough to play D&A - guess she has to get too far away from "dad". Well she did it at Purina and did awesome!
Canis Major season is upon us and Tali is doing well in SuperSport D&A with both Jack and I. Jack is judging freestyle again this year so isn't competing. I haven't been able to practice with Tali so I am just doing D&A instead of freestyle. Spice did well at the 1st Canis Major with me but has been dropping discs at the last 2 Canis Major. Not sure what that is about since she is normally a catching machine. The HUGE Canis Major news is that Groovy attended the last one and played D&A with Jack. Not only that but they placed 1st! Soooo awesome! I am so proud of her, she's come a long way! This event last year she would play FS but wouldn't play D&A.
We have 2 more Canis Majors and that will be it till January or February! It's been a great disc dog season and I expect next year will be a lot of fun. Jack's been putting a lot of foundation on Groovy and Spice the past few months so hopefully it will pay off come 2012!
One last new thing for us is our logo. We've finally got one for One Drop! Personalized DK Vaulting Vest and discs coming soon!
Oh yah - Jack and Groovy won best Freestyle in the Spooky Jam contest with PVybe.com - that's how he won the vest! Their video is below!
Well let's see... had a great time at Skyhoundz. Tali qualified for freestyle at the last chance qualifier which is probably one of the hardest competitions around. We were amazed and surprised. Spice came in 1st in microdog at the qualifier (very cool but not as hard to do as what Tali did) but that qualified her for worlds as well! A very very exciting day for us! Tali didn't have enough oomph to do 2 days of competition so didn't fare well at the actual worlds competition but she at least did better than last year. Spice did great for a baby dog with no routine finishing 8th in microdog! Can't wait to see what they do when they have a routine!
On to AWI Finals at Purina. Jack and Tali were qualified so we drove 17 hours to Purina Farms. It was a quick but fun trip. Tali did well enough to make the cut to the 2nd round but speaking of cuts, she cut her tongue in the 2nd round and that pretty much ended her routine right there as she isn't the type of dog that can work through that. :( One great thing from the weekend is that Jack played Groovy in D&A on Sunday and she did great! She's been doing pretty well at doing FS in public the past year or so but just hasn't been brave enough to play D&A - guess she has to get too far away from "dad". Well she did it at Purina and did awesome!
Canis Major season is upon us and Tali is doing well in SuperSport D&A with both Jack and I. Jack is judging freestyle again this year so isn't competing. I haven't been able to practice with Tali so I am just doing D&A instead of freestyle. Spice did well at the 1st Canis Major with me but has been dropping discs at the last 2 Canis Major. Not sure what that is about since she is normally a catching machine. The HUGE Canis Major news is that Groovy attended the last one and played D&A with Jack. Not only that but they placed 1st! Soooo awesome! I am so proud of her, she's come a long way! This event last year she would play FS but wouldn't play D&A.
We have 2 more Canis Majors and that will be it till January or February! It's been a great disc dog season and I expect next year will be a lot of fun. Jack's been putting a lot of foundation on Groovy and Spice the past few months so hopefully it will pay off come 2012!
One last new thing for us is our logo. We've finally got one for One Drop! Personalized DK Vaulting Vest and discs coming soon!
Oh yah - Jack and Groovy won best Freestyle in the Spooky Jam contest with PVybe.com - that's how he won the vest! Their video is below!
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Spice's first beach trip!
Had a great time though next time we'll go when there aren't waves bigger than her! :)
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
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!! :)
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!! :)
Thursday, June 23, 2011
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!!
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!!
Friday, June 17, 2011
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!
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Fun HOT weekend ahead
This weekend we'll be in Auburndale, FL for the Skyhoundz Southeast Regional. Saturday Tali will compete in freestyle. We have no expectation that she'll qualify this year and that's OK - she doesn't really perform well on that Skyhoundz Worlds FS field. We had entered Groovy and Spice in team time trial but found out tonight that they don't do those at regionals anymore - bummer. Jack went ahead and entered Spice in regular freestyle and is just going to do baby stuff with her so she'll have something to do that day. If it's looking pretty "calm" and not crowded maybe he'll try Groovy too - we'll see.
Sunday is Distance and Accuracy - Tali and Spice both will be entered. Maybe Groovy pending on where her brain in this weekend and how she handles the environment. Jack has to catch a plane out of Tampa at 5pm so we have our fingers crossed that we won't miss anything at the regional having to leave around 3 - HOPEFULLY it'll be done by then! We shall see! What I do know is that it will be HOT this weekend - high of 90... and it's only April!
Looking forward to hanging out with everyone and seeing our California disc dog friends who are "east coasting" it this week after being at AKC nationals last weekend!
And last but not least... Groovy turned 2 last weekend! Here are two pics of her at TWO! Finally starting to fill out and look less leggy!
Sunday is Distance and Accuracy - Tali and Spice both will be entered. Maybe Groovy pending on where her brain in this weekend and how she handles the environment. Jack has to catch a plane out of Tampa at 5pm so we have our fingers crossed that we won't miss anything at the regional having to leave around 3 - HOPEFULLY it'll be done by then! We shall see! What I do know is that it will be HOT this weekend - high of 90... and it's only April!
Looking forward to hanging out with everyone and seeing our California disc dog friends who are "east coasting" it this week after being at AKC nationals last weekend!
And last but not least... Groovy turned 2 last weekend! Here are two pics of her at TWO! Finally starting to fill out and look less leggy!
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