Quite possibly...

...the best obedience weekend ever. The dogs did great this weekend-I'm so proud of all them. Here's how it went.

Legend was entered in Rally Excellent on Saturday and placed 2nd with a surprising 99/100 pts. This finishes here RE and will (at least for now) conclude her Rally career. Today she was entered in Novice B to try for another CD leg. She was vastly improved over her last leg and qualified with a much better score of 188/200. Only one more to go-she may get out of Novice yet!

Zodiac had an awesome Rally weekend! He got first place in Excellent B on Saturday-beating Legend with a score of 100/100! Then we also went on to get first in Advanced B with 99/100. He continued to do well today by again placing first in Excellent B with a 98/100 and then placed 3rd in Advanced B with 95 points. I thought this score was a little low in comparison to his other runs this weekend as it seemed as good as or better than those but I'm not the judge. On the flip side I probably would not have scored Legend at a 99 yesterday so I guess it all evens out. These were his 5th and 6th RAE legs.

And finally-the big debut in Utility A! I thought he made a really solid effort. Here's how it broke down. Signals-some of his better heeling (only one are of wide/lagging), stand and stay went ok but he failed to down or sit. Come and finish were nice. I was a little disappointed that did not do the signals as we have worked so hard on this and it's not like he didn't see it-he just opted not to. On to articles-upon turning to the articles he wandered off a bit as if he didn't know where to look for them but once redirected he got the correct article both times! Front and finishes were nice. Gloves-he struggled with turn but the rest was nice. Moving stand was nice-loss of only 1 point. Directed jumping was the only total washout (in my opinion) as he only went about halfway and then turned and looked at me. But he went straight and at a good pace. And that's one of things that I know we still needed some work on. So overall I was quite pleased. We need to do some more proofing and polishing but I think it can be done.

Also Linda and Chesney competed in their first ever obedience trial and got 2 qualifying scores in Rally Novice A!

In addition to all this good news our friend Cheri spent the weekend at a NADAC trial where she and Vixen earned the rest of the points they needed to qualify for the NADAC championships!