2007 - What a year!

I can't believe that 2007 is coming to an end! What a year OTEA has had.

2007 was full of different dog sports! Agility, Disc Dog, Rally-O, Herding and Dog Sledding.

A total of 24 titles were earned by Abbey, Baxter, Owen, Peso, Phoenix and Ripley! in 3 different sports.

Abbey, Peso and Baxter all made the AAC's Top Dog list, Abbey with 16 Q's, and both Peso and Baxter with 13 Q's.

Until next year!!

Dec 15 - Royackers AAC Agility Trial

Can I say that I HATE snowstorms?? The OTEA dogs headed west to Ariss, ON to the Royackers final AAC trial of the year. Abbey was the lucky Master's dog who got to run 4 of her 9 runs where Peso got 2 of his 10 and Baxter only got to run 1 of his 6! before we had to head back home to avoid the snowstorm :(

Abbey did have a great Master Standard run and came away with her 2nd Q.

Dec 1 - Acton Agility AAC Trial

We had a great time at Acton Agility's last AAC trial of 2007.

Baxter had a good Starter Standard run coming away with his 3rd Q earning his Agility Dog of Canada (ADC) title!!

Abbey had a smoking Steeplechase run coming in 1st and earning a Q.

Nov 24 & 25 - Ottawa Fun Weekend

Ottawa truly is the best dog town around. The "toxic" is our favorite place to go with the dogs. We had a great walk with TNT dogs: Mom Rio, Auntie Pipe and Brother Smash, plus Maya and Niki. The snow was great, so pretty and the dogs had a blast. Picture: Baxter, Ripley and Smash.

I think that I have become addicted to two new dog sports this weekend! We made the trip out to Ottawa to hang with the TNT gang. Sat night we went to the BR flyball team practice. Ripley got to do some recalls and had some fun. Pam worked with Baxter and had him doing a good swimmers turn on the box within a few minutes! He also had a blast doing recalls down and the line..he seems like a natural. Flyball here we come??!!

Sunday we had a complete blast when we took the TNT boys to try dog sledding! Baxter was a natural and took right off at the start. Tiff said he did stop 1/2 way wondering where all the humans were but once she said it was ok...off he went again! He got to do a second run and seemed to do well. Wow, was it ever cool.

Picture: Front Row: TNT Fly and TNT Piper. Back Row: Baxter (nice tongue) and TNT Rio. Leader of the pack: Grandma Tiff :)

Ripley spent the time pulling a piece of pipe and I am sure he will do great next year when he gets a chance on the sled.

Nov 17 & 18 - OTEA's CDDA Disc Trial

Over the Edge Agility hosted it's 2nd Annual CDDA Sanctioned disc dog trial this past weekend. Despite the cold weather, we had a great time and hope that everyone else had fun too! Thanks to all our OTEA volunteers, you guys rock!!, our Judge - Tiffany Salmon from Ottawa and of course the participants.

OTEA Brags:
Phoenix competed in her first dog sport this weekend and came away with her Retrieval Proficiency Test (RPT) Title. Congrats Phe Phe!!
Peso and Andrea compete in the Novice Single Disc and have 2 good rounds starting to rack up points towards their disc title (we have a video of her Sun round...look for it on YouTube, lol)
Baxter and Rick compete in the Advanced Single Disc and have a good round too. Baxter was actually powering back to Rick which was great!
Shona was lucky enough to get to play disc with TNT's Rio (Baxter's mom) and they came away with their 1st NSD Q.

Nov 10 & 11 - MAC Dog's AAC Agility Trial

The OTEA dogs had a fun weekend of agility at MAC's AAC trial in London, ON.
















Peso was the steeplechase boy, coming away with Q's in both of the Steeplechases, as well as his 1st Advanced Jumpers Q.
















Abbey has turned into a little gambling dog (after attending the Sue Charlton distance seminar), getting her 2nd Advanced Gamble Q! She also gets Q's in Master Snooker and Steeplechase.

















Baxter is going home to work on contacts and start line stays but did get another Masters Gamble Q.

OTEA Students
Martin and Ginger had some great runs and come home with their Starters Team Q. (Abbey is happy because she now has an official team partner)
Colleen and Chase also have a good weekend, coming away with their Starter Snooker Q and a Steeplechase Q.

Nov 4th - Herding Instinct Test

Baxter and Ripley went herding at Ewes Welcome Farm in Castleton. Both had a blast and came away with their Certificate of Herding Instinct.

Ripley doing his "come by"















Baxter doing his "away from me"

Oct 26th - Acton Agility's AAC Trial

Peso is on a Q mission! He competes at Acton Agility's AAC Trial in Flamborough for the day coming home with his 1st Advanced Standard Q and his 1st Advanced Gamblers Q! both runs in 1st place.

Oct 21st - Rat Pack AAC Agility Trial

This past weekend we had the opportunity to work face to face with Sue Charlton from Edmonton. We had a great time and everyone took away lots of things to work on. Abbey was the funniest trying to figure out at which point the "ball gods" were going to drop the ball in front of her! but I must admit, she did some great distance work. Look out Gamblers classes :)

Sue and Shona headed to the Rat Pack AAC agility trial on Sunday. Sue's dog Reese earned her Bronze Award of Merit after 2 great Master Standard runs, plus a Steeplechase Q and Master Snooker Q. It was nice to be there to see it.

Abbey had a smoking Masters Jumper round earning her Master Jumper Dog of Canada (MJDC) title.

Oct 13th & 14th - K9 Klubhouse AAC Agility Trial

What a weekend!! The OTEA group had a GREAT time at the last outdoor AAC trial of the season coming away with 3 titles! As always, K9 Klubhouse put on a great trial and even the weather for mid-Oct wasn't so bad (at least for those of us who were running).
















Baxter had an awesome Master Gamble run for his final Q to earn himself his Master Gamble Dog of Canada (MGDC) title!! Such a good boy. He also earned himself his 2nd Starter Standard Q.














Peso had an amazing Starter Standard round on Sunday earning himself his 3rd Q and his Agility Dog of Canada (ADC) title! and this from a 19 month old puppy! Peso and Andrea also ran a flawless Advance Snooker round coming 1st with a Q.
















Sabrina and Abbey have a PERFECT weekend running 2 Starter Standard rounds clean!! With 2 more Q's, Sabrina earns her Junior Handler Award of Merit - Starters Level Title.

Sept 22nd & 23rd - The Agility Connection's AAC Agility Trial

We had a great time at The Agility Connection's agility trial in Kingston this weekend! The organizers were amazing, the people so friendly and extremely well run.

Abbey started off a little slow for Jr Handler Sabrina but they did well overall coming 1st and receiving some nice prizes.

Abbey gets her 1st Advanced Gamble Q with a best run, 1st place and earns enough points to get a Super Q! Abbey also has some beautiful runs and gets a Master Standard Q and a Master Jumpers Q.

Peso also has a great weekend putting in some awesome runs, watch out for this boy! Peso gets his Starters Gamble Q with a best run, 1st place and also earns enough points for a Super Q!! Peso was flying in the Steeplechase run, getting his first Q and best run of all the Regular dogs.

Baxter ran really nice having some great runs. He also comes away with his first Steeplechase Q. Too bad his mom messed him up just missing his Master Gamble Q by 3 pnts :(

Sept 15th & 16th - Harvest Disc Dog Trial

Rick and Baxter compete in the 3rd Annual Harvest Disc Dog trial in Mount Forest, ON. They had 2 great rounds in Advanced Single Disc coming away with 30 and 34 pnts. Baxter earns his Disc Dog Excellent (DDX) title by having over 300 pnts. Baxter and Rick also come away with a personal best Furthest Catch of 129'5".

Announcing: 2nd Annual CDDA Disc Dog Trial

We are pleased to announce our 2nd Annual CDDA Disc Dog Trial.

Location: Cobblestone Farms
6406 Clemens Rd, Bowmanville, ON
When: Saturday, November 17th, 2007. starting at 5pm
Sunday, November 18th, 2007. Starting at 10am

*Registration will start 1 hour prior to the competition
Judge: Tiffany Salmon of Ottawa, ON
Entering: ONLINE REGISTRATION FORM
Classes Offered:* all offered in mini & regular
Retrieval Proficiency Test
Novice Single Disc
Advanced Single Disc
Junior Handler
Novice Freestyle
Open Freestyle
**Fun Games open to everyone**
Single Disc - $15 per class
All others - $12 per class

For more details, check out our website at http://www.overtheedgeagility.com/ under Events

Announcing: Sue Charlton Seminars

We are very pleased to be bringing Sue Charlton to Ontario to conduct 3 great seminars.

Sue is an awesome teacher and competitor and has competed very successfully on both the National and International level.

The following seminars will be offered:
Handling Workshop - Friday, Oct 19th
Building Obstacle Value - Saturday, Oct 20th
Distance Workshop - Saturday, Oct 20th
ONLINE REGISTRATION FORM

For more details, check out our website at www.overtheedgeagility.com/ under Events.

Sept 8th & 9th - Spot On AAC Agility Trial

The Over the Edge Agility dogs were all out and doing great at the Spot On AAC Agility Trial in Purple Hill.




Abbey gets her 3rd Advance Standard Q, earning her Advance Agility Dog of Canada (S-AADC) title!! Yeah! No more tables!! She also has a great Masters Jumpers round coming away with her 1st Q.
















Peso just turns 18 months and at his first AAC trial gets 2 Starter Standard Q's, his Starter Snooker Q and his Starter Jumpers Q! With all that great work, they were awarded "Best Starter Dog of the trial!"

OTEA Students:

JR Handler Sabrina competes in her first ever AAC trial. She does an amazing job, coming away with her 1st Q with Abbey. She also earns 2nd with Owen in the other Jr Handler class and 2nd in the Advanced Jumpers class. Great Job Sabrina!

Sadie has a great weekend getting 2 Starter Standard Q's for her Agility Dog of Canada (ADC) title. She also gets her second Advanced Snooker Q.

Ginger has a great weekend too. She was moving fast and came away with a Starter Gamble Q and her 1st Advanced Jumper Q.

Chase debuts at this trial, also only 18 months old, getting a Starter Standard Q and a Starter Gamble Q.

Sept 1st - Campaign Dog Training Academy's AAC Agility Trial

Baxter gets 2 Master Gamble Q's at Campaign's agility trial! He came 1st in both runs, also getting the best run in each with scores of 98 and 104.

Aug 25th & 26th - Acton Agility's CPE & AAC Agility Trial

This was a very busy and successful weekend for all the competing OTEA dogs!


Peso competes in Acton Agility's CPE Trial in Flamborough, what an amazing weekend Andrea and Peso had, coming away with 3 Title: CL1-R, CL1-S, CL1-H, 5 Level 1 Q's and 3 Level 2 Q's!!
Baxter and Abbey also compete in the CPE Trial, both getting 4 Level 2 Q's!


Owen steps in for the AAC trial after Baxter is stung by a wasp. He had an awesome Advanced Gamble round coming away with a 1st place and a Q!!

Aug 26th - Take the Lead's CDDA Disc Dog Trial

Baxter competes in Take the Lead's CDDA Disc Dog trial. He comes away with his 2nd Advanced Single Disc Q with 45pnts. He also has an awesome furthest throw catch of 128'3 for a 3rd place ribbon and prize.