Holly

This is Holly, she was my friend's daughters dog, she came to live with me in August when the daughter went off to college and my home was a better fit. My guess is she's a lab/border collie/sighthound/pit bull. 


I am training her in obedience and agility, she just got her CGC and I am entering her in an obedience trial in June. She also does canicross, hiking, and running beside my bike. The next things we're going to try are weight pull, barn hunt, treiball and nosework but I have more equipment to buy/classes haven't started. She would love lure coursing but no one is doing that here (Big island of Hawaii). She is really smart and likes to excercise her mind, and run and pull, and wants to chase furry things. I have a 10 month old English shepherd also.

Abby

Dear Abby was an agility star in Hutchinson, KS last weekend. She qualified 7 out of 7 times, with three perfect 200 scores and earned 16 points. We need only 2 points to complete the 100 required for her UKC championship. I honestly don't know how Abby does this. It must be a Hawaiian Snake Hound talent, because it sure isn't my handling!

June

June completed her Barnhunt Open title with a First Place and the fastest time in all qualifying dogs in the trial. 

June is now: UKC-UWP Woodacre's Soidog Mali AKC-CAX ABLSA-SR1 BH-RATO TT

In the Open level, the dog has to find two hidden and confined rats in under two minutes. 

Now June is running in the Senior level and has to find four rats in over 3 minutes. She did run in a Senior level today, Sunday, and she did find all the rats, but I was not quick enough in my indication and the timer went off before I could raise my hand and call "Rat!" Just a split second too slow. 

The trial was put on by ABBAdogs. This was my first trial with this group. They run a lot of agility trials, and recently started running Barnhunt trials. Can't wait for more!

What a super fun and addicting sport! Once the dog understands the game, there is no ongoing training. I do allow June to hunt for gophers when in areas where they exist, but she does remain super friendly to my cat, who she adores, and to my rabbit. She seems to know the difference, which they appreciate. 

Santa Rosa, CA

Here is June with her ribbons in front of the hay bales and her scoresheet. Great job, June!

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Chip

This is Chip. He's a Finchester Yellow. (Heh, my invented breed to cover all of my long-legged, short-haired yellow dogs--http://dogblog.finchester.org/sea…/label/Finchester%20Yellow.) 

I first fell in love with his eyes, then confirmed that he he is so fast and agile and amazingly flexible that he could make a good agility dog--with a lot of work. Shortly thereafter, my spine went south, so we've been pretty much taking it easy. 

He is SO sweet and loves loves loves to be petted and caressed on any part of his body--doesn't care whether tail or toes or ears or anywhere. He's 3 and a half now.

Moxie and Miko

My 2 older dogs, both rescues, are of ... uncertain parentage, you could say. People who know more than I guessed that Miko is probably Kelpie mixed with who knows. He's retired from agility now but keeps busy with nose work, and would love it if I let him take up tracking again. 

Moxie, who is some combo of Aussie and BC, still competes in agility (fingers crossed he can stay uninjured for awhile) and does surprisingly well at nose work -- considering that as a tracker he makes a good carburator smile emoticon He would love to herd sheep but has to make do with the cat.
I'm attaching a very poor quality (2007 cell phone) video of Miko tracking in one of Debi Best's classes. Also attaching an "Essence of Mox" photo. All that's missing is the bark!

Maggie

This is from the early 90's, when agility was a new sport. I think this was at a NADAC trial. Maggie was perhaps the best agility dog I will ever have. Although she looked like a mini-Lab, she was probably mostly Cocker. She also had her UCD and was a dynamite tracker and therapy dog. Mostly, she was a wonderful friend. I still miss her.

Zula, EEK, Bianca

This is now. Zulu (on the left) has recovered from a long battle with kidney failure caused by autoimmune disease. EEK (in the front) is a Pap x BC as my best guess. Bianca is probably a purebred. She was my foster BC.