Various Fun Things :)

Several awesome things have happened but I didn't had any time to write about them so better late than never I guess :) Last Saturday Scooter and I went to an APDT rally O trial in Andover and came home with 4/4 q's for our 8th & 9th ARChEX, RL2X2, and RL3X legs - I can't wait for the next trial when we actually get all of these titles! - we got 1 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th (the full set!) with scores of 210, 210, 209, and 207 (I failed to remember the station and when I moved to read the sign Scooter moved with me, a little too responsive ? haha) I want to try and finish up Scooter's ARChEX and ARChMX this year so I can start to focus more on agility and actually doing obedience with Trixie - she has 1 BN leg (which she got with a 193 despite a 3 point handler error) I'm thinking that obedience training will be a focus while I'm in college but who knows, so much is still up in the air.

Back to other fun things! Scooter got re-certified as a therapy dog! We didn't pass the 1st recertification test because I forgot to tell her to stay...what's wrong with me? ... and Scooter had some definite stress issues on the second one - but we passed! I'm excited to start doing volunteer work with her at a local hospital, who knows maybe we'll even go for our AKC Therapy Dog (ThD) title - if we do we may have to earn it over 2 summers because it requires 50 visits, something that would be hard to do in 10-12 weeks of summer ( although there's a minimum 75 hour requirement so who knows?)

Unfortunately I missed BOTH of our agility classes this week so the trial should be interesting this week! As long as we finish our NF and Q in Open Standard and JWW (for our 2nd legs) I'll be happy, Time 2 Beat will just be a fun bonus :) Watching all of the runs at AKC nationals has made me even more excited to go to Tulsa that I already am! (I didn't think it was possible!) Given our consistency we'll hopefully have gotten all of our QQ's and points by the end of the summer, but lets not get ahead of ourselves - one trial at a time...