On the way home from DOCNA Championships we decided to take the scenic route for once and just take our time. Here’s some pictures from one of the lakes that we stopped at. It was gorgeous. The pictures don’t do the scenery justice, but the dogs were more important. LOL
We’re back! DOCNA Championships were a lot of fun! Zoe did fantastic. She ended up taking 1st place in Traditional Gamblers and her trigility team took 1st place. She took 1st place in both Rd. 1 and 2 of Standard and again 1st place in the Standard Finals. She was in 1st place after Rd. 1 of Jumpers, Rd. 2 I totally had a brain glitch and forgot a loop of the course. That took her out of the finals for Jumpers. In the big class for the Nationals…North American Challenge, she took 2nd place Regionally and then the next day her score held up to maintain 2nd place Nationally! She had a fantastic weekend. Flowing courses, nice people, great judge, beautiful ribbons, and even a little warmer weather than we’ve had here at home. Who could ask for more?
Here is the video of Zoe’s NAC run and then a picture of Zoe and her ribbons and then of all the girls…
We’re off again! This time we’re headed for Prescott, AZ for DOCNA Championships. Should be lots of fun! Three days of agility We are leaving first thing in the morning. It’s about an 8 hr drive. Thank goodness Randy is going along this time so we can take turns driving.
Zoe is the only one entered this weekend, but Layla and Dare are tagging along. My mom is coming in to take care of the rest of the crew here. I’ll try to post updates if we have any internet service at the hotel. Well, that and if I’m not dead tired by the time I get back the hotel at night. LOL
I don’t know why it always takes me about a week to update this after I get back from a trial, but here it is already Thurs. and I haven’t written anything.
Zoe and I finally finished her Ex FAST title this weekend!!!! I was beginning to wonder if we’d ever finish that class. LOL Here is the video of Zoe’s FAST title run. FAST rarely runs just as I hope and this was no exception. We had a bobble at the tunnel, (she took the wrong end, so we ended up having to do it twice to get the points). Fortunately, she still had time to get the send. The “send” portion of the course was a sequence of two jumps out to the dogwalk. I’m really proud of her, she handled it like a pro! 
We also got to see Dare’s half sister Tennille. She’s just 7 weeks younger than Dare. What a cutie! Here’s a picture of Dare, Captain and Tennille.
