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"