Today was awesome :D Because there weren't any agility trials anywhere Scooter got to do APDT rally-o 2 weekends in a row! I gave Trixie the weekend off though because I wasn't totally sure how last weekend would go and I don't think she's quite ready to go for the ARCh title yet...even though she keeps getting 210's and such I'm just not satisfied with how she's heeling, I feel like when I'm in the ring with her she really is pushing ME around the course...maybe that's how it's supposed to feel, I'm so used to having to cheerlead miss Scooter all the time that going back and doing all the performance events with Trixie all seem completely different than they did before with Scooter. But back to the rally trial! As usual Scooter was slow, steady, and won the race :) well actually she lost twice on time but she had 4/4 perfect scores, and got her 5th and 6th ARChEX legs :D I feel like since I stopped pushing Scooter to get 1st place all the time her scores have gone up by like 3-5 points (to being consistently 210/209) and she actually gets 1st a lot more often! iconic isn't it? She got 1st place twice and a 2nd and a 3rd on time - I need to find some sort of way to speed her up! It's not that she's stressed like agility, actually I started agility to try and get her to be faster in rally!, because her tail is always up and wagging the whole time. I think she just likes taking her time, and I'm fine with that.
Recently I've been thinking of more stuff I can do with Scooter. I know she and I can only go so far together in agility, probably the MX and MXJ are wishful thinking but what the heck she's only 3 so she's still young, so I've been looking into other titles we can work towards together. I'm thinking of trying CDSP obedience with her because they don't have out of sight stays - I don't think she'd have a problem but I don't really feel like training them to be honest. Teaching scent articles ought to be interesting... but on a different note...recently I heard about these "trick dog titles"and I have to be honest they seem kinda silly but being the sucker I am I've been thinking about them. If you haven't heard of them they were created by a women who wrote some books about how to teach your dogs different tricks and to get each trick title the dog has to know a certain number of tricks that a of a certain level of difficulty. Once you've taught your dog the tricks then you get someone to watch you do them with your dog and then they sign a form saying that you dog can do the tricks and voila! you have earned a trick dog titel. But of course you can't get away with getting these titles for free, that would just be silly! so for each title you have to pay $20 per application, really now? but wait there's more... there's a Trick Dog Champion title ( which is decently challenging) for which you have to actually submit a video of your dog doing the required tricks to be reviewed by a licensed judge type person which may be why they charge $109.99! Wow... They totally had me hooked until I saw how much all of this actually cost... So I've decided to do something...a little lame, maybe..., because I'm kind of cheap (but still I have more important things to spend money on!) Once either Trixie or Scooter have met the requirements for I trick dog title I'll post a video of them doing their tricks on here and I'll award them a trick title myself! ha take that you underhanded scheme! and for those of you wondering I do own one of her books... I'll probably get around to having them do their tricks in like wish weeks when we don't have any trials :'( I'm actually looking forward to working with them to teach them tricks again - the last one I taught was teaching Trixie how to shake like... a year and a half ago...shameful I know - but that will change!
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