January Brags

Happy New Year to everyone! I know, I am actually posting that in Feb but since this is our Jan brags, I thought I better still say it. I have been a total slacker on the brags since Dec but promise to keep it up to date going forward :)

January started off great for the OTEA dogs. We took the whole gang to Acton Agility's AAC trial on New Years Day and almost every dog came away with a Q!

Andrea ran Phoenix in the Starters Jumpers. This was her 2nd time in the ring and they came away with their first AAC Q!! She is a smoking fast little girl and I was glad to be there to see her first Q.

Phoenix's Starters Jumper Q run:



Baxter had a pretty good day having a bar or 2 in most of his runs but running well. His final course was Advanced Jumpers where I spent the whole time telling him "easy" to get him to NOT try and bounce outrageous distances! It wasn't pretty but he got the Q!! I was soo proud of my boy.

Baxter's Advanced Jumpers Q run:



Peso also had a great day running really well. He came away with his first Q of the year in Masters Standard!

Peso's Masters Standard Q run:



Abbey was in FEO mode for most of the day. I had moved her up to 16" regulars FEO for the day to see how she did and to make my final decision about moving her back to regulars. Well, she gave me no doubt whatsoever about her abilities as she flew around the courses without taking one jump down. I am not sure how, but she is actually faster over the higher height! She made me run my butt off!! lol. I did take her down to 10" specials for her final run in Masters Jumpers and she came away with her first Q of 2009. She is now a Regular's dog so we will see how she does in March...

Abbey's Masters Jumper Q run:



Another highlight of the day was having both Chase and Owen run in Jumpers. Chase started off first in Starter's Jumpers with Andrea. He actually ran the course quite well but had a refusal so no Q. I think we may be seeing more of this team in 2009.

Owen was running in Advanced Jumpers and was only 1 dog away after Baxter's run. I didn't think that I could give him my best so hubby Rick stepped in and ran his first ever AAC agility course! I couldn't have been happier with both Rick and Owen. With just 1 little handling mistake, they almost got a Q!! Thanks Andrea for walking the course with Rick and helping him to know what to do. I think we may see more of the Rick/Owen team out there this year!

Royacker's AAC Agility Trial - January 18th

Andrea and her dogs headed to Royacker's in mid-Jan to have a day of agility. The dogs ran really well, Phoenix also got to run Advanced Jumpers FEO and had tons of compliments on how well she ran! She is already impressing people with her athletisism and speed! Watch out for this girl, she is good!

Peso had a good day too. He came away with another Q in his Masters Jumpers course.