Mega-Dogs NADAC Trial

Dazzle and I went to the Mega-Dogs Memorial Day weekend NADAC trial. The weather was really great for all three days. A wee bit hot, but really not bad at all.

I still can't run but we "ran" anyway. Not many Qs, but we got the one that really mattered this weekend. She Q'd in chances which finished her Elite Chances title and also her Elite Versatility Award! Very fun!

Here is the video of a few of our runs:

This year's theme for the Mega-Dogs trial was "Talent Contest". So, of course, that meant there would be a talent contest for the dogs....and Dazzle entered. Actually nobody volunteered to go first, so we did. Dazzle did a small selection: wave, kiss, carry a package, roll up in a blanket, leg weaving (forwards and backwards), limping, crossing her paws, walking on her hind legs backwards, and climbing in a suitecase. Then after we went....nobody else did. I think we my have scared off the competition. Anyway, eventually a couple other dogs did some things but the next morning Dazzle was announced the winner! Way to go Daz! She got a neat little prize with toys and cookies and a collar and stuff. She thought it was pretty sweet.

Here are some photos fromt the weekend. This was the first outdoor agility trial I got to take the camera too, so there was quite a bit of expirementing that I had to do.

Now is she not the most beautiful little redbone you have ever seen?!

Pie

Pie

Elf

Sometimes you just gotta' shake it off

Sprinkles

Can you say "missed contact"?

Esther

Bling!

Bling!

You can't not love these ears. Do you think it hurts when they slap him in the face?

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Ceilidh

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Kelly

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Someone is feeling a little impatient!

Nana

That's all I got for you this time. Just chill out, we have another couple trials coming up in a few weeks.

Esther

Simply Dazzling

Dazzle has a new trick video up!

There are about 60 different tricks in this video! Enjoy.

Zoom Zoom!

Look who it is!

Finally we had a day with minimal amounts of rain so I could take the camera to the park. Well, I guess I could take the camera in the rain too...but generally speaking, cameras and rain don't mix well.

Obviously it was still quite wet - as you can tell because Dazzle is SUPER-POOFY.

Dazzle's fur sticks straight out when it gets wet, thus the super-poofing. Poor girl. She has fat hair.

I have been working on my technique for low-light photos (for places like, um, Seattle). I have particularly fallen in love with panning for running dogs. Thanks to the knee, I can't quite get low and still turn smoothly to take the photos at longer shutterspeeds, but not bad for a first try.

It makes it look like she is going roughly 287 yps doesn't it? (haha! Yay for totally random numbers!)

In other news, Dazzle has totally fallen in love with her pink-really-loud-squeaky-thing that she has had forever and never before taken interest in.

She can't catch it worth a darn, but she does love it...

"Oof"

Dude, seriously. Work on your mouth/eye coordination.

Better....

Ah! Wait for it...

...wait for it...

OMG, I think she is actually going to CATCH it!!

That's more like it girly.

Oh yeah, she's proud.

We went to a USDAA trial awhile back.

Unfortunately we couldn't run (curse you knee!) but I was able to take some photos with my newly learned technique. A couple highlights:

And a quick knee update:

PT is going great so far. Many times I find the exercises are not challenging enough and am able to do significantly more then what they originally asked for. I guess that's a good thing. And except for my hamstring - which still annoys me a bit - I feel as good as new. But I am not as good as new yet. Arg. I want to just go outside and RUN but my physical therapist (would that make her a PTist?) says we won't do that until about 4 months post-op. I am just about 2 and a half months out now. *sniff* Still a ways to go. I want to hike, run, climb, and play with my doggies dang it!

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Okay. Deep breaths. Approximately just 47 more days until I get to start jogging.

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That's about, what? 4,060,800 more seconds? 4,060,799......4,060,798..........4,060,797.......4,060,796......