Today & tomorrow, I'm showing in Albany, and in an amazing feat of stupid, I entered all the things. Agility for all, breed ring for Mercy, obedience for Pirate. They got me on the scheduling for today. Mercy's breed ring was at 10:15, her Novice JWW run was about 10:20, Excellent standard started about 10:30 (small to tall, so I needed to make ( Read more... )

I asked Heather to bring her camera to class today so we could get a good photo of Mercy in her new collar.
This is the ultimate Mercy picture. This is who Mercy is:


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Weather was nice today, so he got to go to work.


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Tomorrow will be Pirate's 7th birthday, meaning he'll be officially a "veteran". (yes, it's a little silly, he's in his prime). In honor of the milestone birthday, his Grammy Dayna sent him a box of presents:


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International League went much better tonight. I am still coughing, but it's improving, and I was able to run enough to keep things fun for both of us. There were lots of good parts. And some off courses, but I was happy with our runs, they were so much better than we've been doing. Pi tried very hard, and basically did what he was cued ( Read more... )

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Tonight was international agility league again, and we really sucked. Mostly I sucked, and not entirely my fault, as I'm pretty sick. I didn't really want to go, but felt committed. It's hard to run the international courses when my breathing is compromised, which it is. I haven't been able to run well lately anyway, because I'm out of shape. ( Read more... )

This weekend, of course, was the Rose City shows. I dialed back my participation a little this year, and only entered Pirate, but I was really looking forward to our fun weekend together. Saturday/Sunday only, 3 agility runs, and one run of Beginners Novice obedience each day ( Read more... )

Somebody is 2 today.


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I won't post the course, because Heather did. It was a challenging course, which nobody got. Pirate and I were not stellar, which was mostly me. I was actually super happy with how hard he tried, considering how stir crazy he should be by now. He did ditch me about halfway through the first run to try and raid a bucket of Charlee Bears which ( Read more... )