WAG NADAC trial
Sunday, April 25th, 2010 Posted in Photos, trials | Comments OffWe went to another trial this weekend. This one is the last for about a month, which I think is a good thing. We left early on Sunday (my daughter's cat had a urinary tract blockage and needed to go ...
Poodle Grooming Advice
Friday, April 23rd, 2010 Posted in life with poodles | 1 Comment »Warning: this advice is worth exactly what you paid for it... But it's a distillation of my two year's experience grooming two poodles myself, so there may be some useful information in there. Equipment: I own three clippers. I have the Arco ...
Search and rescue dogs…
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 Posted in off topic | 1 Comment »This interview was absolutely fascinating: Scent of the Missing.
Full throttle
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 Posted in Photos, training, trials | Comments Off[caption id="attachment_1089" align="aligncenter" width="504" caption="Dancer jumps! Photo by Joe Camp"][/caption]
Into the deep end…
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 Posted in Photos, life with poodles | Comments OffI realize that having this top made is definitely over the top or into the deep end or whatever analogy you like, but I love it. [caption id="attachment_1086" align="aligncenter" width="504" caption="Poodle Fleece"][/caption] The poodle design is from a photo of Dancer jumping, ...
Product reviews
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 Posted in life with poodles | 1 Comment »(And now for a message from your sponsors) Nina Ottosson's Interactive Dog Toy I won the Tornado dog toy at the agility trial worker raffle last weekend. Elly thinks it's pretty cool; she worked out how it worked pretty quickly, and then ...
Groomers gone wild
Monday, April 19th, 2010 Posted in poodles | Comments OffPhotos from a grooming competition
Official results
Monday, April 19th, 2010 Posted in trials | Comments OffDancer: Standard level 1: 119 yds, SCT 58 sec, 29.80 sec Standard level 1: 130 yds, SCT 65 sec, 34.54 sec Standard level 1: 130 yds, SCT 65 sec, 33.79 sec Snooker level 1: 46 points, 32.35 sec Wildcard level 2: 82 yds, SCT ...
Two dogs, 16 runs, 15 Qs, 13 blue ribbons, 2 red ribbons…
Sunday, April 18th, 2010 Posted in trials | Comments OffIn short, it was one heck of a good weekend of trialing at the CAT CPE trial. Dancer missed ONE dog walk contact and that was the only NQ. In her best run, she ran 72 yards (short course!) with one ...
African Painted Dogs aren’t actually dogs…
Thursday, April 15th, 2010 Posted in life with poodles | Comments OffIn the New York Times today, there's a fascinating article Every (Wild) Dog has Its Day about the African Painted Dog--also called African Wild Dogs--which isn't really a dog at all. To quote the article, they last shared a common ...