This weekend Matilda and I went to one day of a two day West Valley Dogsports USDAA trial at the Pomona Fairplex. (Saturday we went to the Upland Library and listened to 18 kids read to us.) This was only our second USDAA trial. I went to one about a year ago. There aren't too many nearby. Also I have felt a little intimidated.

Anyway, the day ( Read more... )

I went out to Cherry Valley Labradoodles today  just to see Tiffany's dogs. I hadn't been there since I got Matilda. She had some three week old puppies, but they're going to be large, larger than Matilda. We saw Starbuck the new mom, Choxie (Matilda's sister), Hersey (Choxie's daughter and Matilda's niece), Niki (another big one), and Violet. ( Read more... )

I guess I'm not keeping eye contact with Matilda.   In the trial on Sunday I lost her after two jumps on my front cross. She went right up the A-Frame behind me.  Working on a Silvia Trkman course a similar thing happened. She took the wrong tunnel entrance behind me.  I'm late with my cues, too. I'll work on both of these. Better eye contact and ( Read more... )

Today I stopped off at Auto Drive with an agility friend. I took a test drive in a Prius v and a Subaru Outback.  Right now I have a 98 Subaru Outback which I really have loved. It has between 110,000 and 120,000 miles on it. I can't remember exactly. It's really been pretty trouble free.  Last summer the clutch went out and I had the several parts ( Read more... )

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Today Matilda and I went to a CPE trial in Valley Center, down near San Diego.  I took a blanket and folded it into a mat and set it down in a quiet spot maybe 30 feet from the ring entrance for five to seven dogs before our runs.  Actually, I was surprised how relaxed she became. By the last run she rolled over on her side for me to rub her tummy ( Read more... )

I was among the people hoping this dog, the Australian Labradoodle, would be established as a breed. If Beverly Manners, the original co creator, hadn't been so crazy, maybe it might have happened, but she kept wanting to exclude breeders from the "authorized list", even those who were breeding dogs from her lines and her daughter's. There has been ( Read more... )

Well, we went to a trial on Saturday and it was awful.  T2B was a zoomie from the start. Our tugging before going into the ring wasn't going very well. Then I missed hearing the ring steward call us and so we rushed into the ring last minute.  I could see her wild eyes and off she went.  Our other two runs were  better, but not good. It was a very ( Read more... )

Matilda and I went to an AKC trial in Walnut, CA this last weekend.  Saturday was pretty bad. Both the T2B and JWW runs turned into zoomies. Matilda was pretty high to start and I didn't give her information soon enough and we got disconnected.  Our third run, the Standard run was better but no Q.

For Sunday I decided to try some different things. I ( Read more... )

This was posted on FB.  It wild to see and hear a run from the dog's point of view.

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