Shameless Brag…
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in life with poodles | 1 Comment »Well. I just got the official results from the NADAC trial. Dancer did the 132-yard tunnelers course in 27.26 seconds, for 4.84 yards/second. That's her fastest tunnelers time yet.
New Photos
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 Posted in Photos, trials | 2 Comments »Todd Coon of Infinite Exposures took these photos of Dancer at the RAT NADAC trial last weekend. I like this one: Dancer is powering out of her startline stay with such enthusiasm! and I like this picture because we've been working on ...
Thinking about what I’ve done well…
Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Posted in training | Comments OffI've been trying very hard lately to focus on what's going well and on what needs improvement, rather than phrasing it as a problem. For example: "Dancer's teeter needs further training" vs. "Dancer can't do the teeter." These are things Dancer ...
About my border poodle…
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 Posted in life with poodles | Comments OffI joke that Dancer is a border collie/poodle cross, because she's fast and loves agility. But you know how the border collies and the aussies bark and nip their handlers because they're slow on their cues? Dancer got eliminated today in ...
Well, that might have been a mistake…
Saturday, June 21st, 2008 Posted in trials | 2 Comments »I left Portland Friday morning, daughter pretty much on the road to recovery... came home, unpacked, did laundry, and drove down to Argus for two runs Friday evening--the opening night of the RAT NADAC trial. Dancer and I were running. ...
Life
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 Posted in not poodles, trials | Comments OffI am in Portland with my injured daughter... her knee is clear on MRI and her collarbone has been set. She is still in a lot of pain but will make a full recovery. Last weekend Dancer got two Qs in ...
One Nightmare Later…
Saturday, June 14th, 2008 Posted in not poodles | Comments OffMy daughter is fine (sort of) but she got hit by a car Thursday while riding her bike. She was in the bike line, crossing an intersection on a green light, when a woman driving a pickup hit her. Her ...
One of those dreams…
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in life with poodles | Comments OffYou know how, when you were in high school, you had dreams in which you forgot you had a test and showed up unprepared? I had a dream last night that I showed up for my agility lesson and I'd forgotten ...
One year cancer-free… yesterday.
Sunday, June 8th, 2008 Posted in chondrosarcoma, knee rehab, trials | Comments OffIt's been one year and one day since my surgery to remove my chondrosarcoma. I have two neat but obvious scars, one internal plate that sets off the metal detectors at airports, no cancer (that I know of), mostly don't ...
Poodles and Tunnels
Friday, June 6th, 2008 Posted in life with poodles | Comments OffIt's hard for a tall straight dog like a poodle to learn to do tunnels well. When I started doing NADAC with Elly, she thought the Tunnelers class was really annoying. I remember the first time we did Tunnelers. She did ...