Keystone ESS Winter AKC 2011

Trixie and I had a lot of fun at this trial! It was our last AKC trial before the AKC Juniors Agility Competition this December and I think we're definitely going to do well there :) We QQ'ed both days getting two OAP legs and finishing her OJP title. Trixie also ran in FAST but the runs weren't very good... Saturday's NQ in FAST was definitely my fault but I was happy with the run anyway because she had really good weaves and a great teeter. In fact, she got her weaves all weekend on the first try :) Sunday morning's FAST annoyed me because the send was totally something she could do with no problem, but she just got too excited and ran around me to take some random jump... At least she's building drive! LOL at least she gets it out in FAST before standard and jumpers where it really counts - we're trying to qualify for 2013 AKC nationals, getting our OAP, AXP, AJP, and 6 QQ's before the end of November next year should be no problem right?! Well, we'll give it a shot :)

Here are her runs:

Saturday FAST and Open JWW:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0CHahw10dE

Sunday JWW:

loved this run!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gtt-OaMejE

Here goes nothing!

Well, here goes nothing... I keep trying to keep dog training journals but so far the one that's lasted the longest lasted two weeks or so... well hopefully this will work better! Trixie is about to start more serious competitive obedience training next week and she still isn't in the Excellent B/Masters/ Level 5 agility so it should be fun to look back and see all of the progress we'll hopefully be making :) I'll try and update this at least once a week but we'll see if school lets me do that

Here's a little bit about my two dogs:

Scooter:

Scooter is a little Cavalier King Charles Spaniel who loves to sleep, chase squirrels, and generally be adored by everyone :) She was born in late August of 2008. Scooter was the first dog I have ever owned and I just love her. She tries so hard to do exactly what I want her to in training and rarely disappoints in the ring, and has earned over 20 titles. I give her a lot of credit for doing as well as she did despite the fact that I knew essentially nothing about training a dog at all when I started with he.

Trixie:

Trixie is my crazy little English Cocker Spaniel who just loves life. She was born in December 2009 and in the less than two years I've had her she has proved to be a loyal and smart, but certainly mischievous!, little Engie <3 She's been training in agility for about a year now and is about to start seriously training for competitive obedience.