Tulsa Cluster Results

This weekend Legend and Zodiac competed at the Tulsa Cluster Dog Shows. Legend decided that the obedience ring is a great place to burn off excess energy and tug on her leash so traditional obedience was a wash this weekend-although very entertaining. I think it will be awhile before we try for any CD legs again-clearly we still need to work on some self-control. Rally, however was a big success. Legend showed in Novice on Saturday even though she already has her title because I wanted to avoid having 2 dogs in one class. And clearly she can use the ring experience. She didn't place but scored a very respectable 97/100. Zodiac did his usual super job and scored a 99/100 in Advanced to finish his RA and placed 2nd of twenty-something qualifiers. Both dogs moved up a level for Sunday and Zodiac was great-on his first day of Excellent he scored a perfect 100 yet again and took first place for his first RE leg (again, I think there were like twenty-something qualifiers!) Legend made her first attempt at Advanced which is all off lead and I was fairly nervous about this since by now she had been confined to a hotel and leash walks all weekend! She was pretty concerned at first that the steward took her leash but was OK once we got started. She did however get the "zoomies" halfway through and took a short tour of the ring and checked out the judge. I was able to get her back and working again which was a good training experience for her-I hope. Other than stopping to look at a very large dog outside the ring she finished the course without incident and still managed to score an 87 and get an RA leg. So I'm assuming that without the momentary loss of control she would have had a pretty decent score and I was happy with how the weekend went. The picture is of their ribbons and the prizes Zodiac won for his placements. We have several agility trials coming up so I am sure Legend will be much happier to do that rather than this serious obedience stuff!