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Marstad One For The Road CD RE CGC

Tony got the last leg of his CD at Mount Diablo DTC trial in Martinez with a score of 177 on Aptil 27.  It was hot. We were the last dog in. He forgot how to finish. He almost melted on the groups. I forgot that if the dog isn’t looking at you, giving the hand signal to finish is a futile exercise. And when the nice judge let us have a do over on the finish, I forgot that the verbal command to finish is around, not heel. We were out of the ribbons by two points, but hey it’s the green one that counts.

Here he is with his celebratory dinner

This here is the score board from our last Rally Ex A run at Gavilan Kennel Club (April 25). We are “dog and handler number 56″ and we got a first place with the barely qualifying score of 75. What gives? Well everyone else did even worse because they all NQ’ed. You see, there were gophers tunnels all over the rally course, with gophers periodically popping out of them. And the other dogs were terriers and a couple of spaniels and therefore were way more interested in the gophers than the “heel, sit, here, watch me, watch ME, COME, LEAVE IT, NO!!!!!” noises coming from their handlers. Tony and I managed to scrape by with lots of NO’s and LEAVE IT’s, but only just barely, and only because no gophers were actually visible at the time.

Yeah, so he’s got his RE now.

Agora, Althens, Greece

Tulips, Carmel Valley, CA

CD legs that is. Two of them, with two second places. The world is stunned. Judy is stunned. Terri is even more stunned.

Vital statistics:

San Mateo Dog Training Club OB, Feb 24 2008, Novice A, Judge Margot McKereghan, Score 186, second place, highest scoring labrador in trial. Lost points on heeling (sniffing, bumping on left turns, lagging), shifting feet on the stand, goosing me on the recall, and a sloppy finish.
San Francisco Dog Training Club OB, Feb 24 2008, Novice A, Judge Ken Blatchard, Score 182, second place, highest scoring labrador in trial. Lost point on heeling (lag, wide sit), recall (no front), and long sit (got up before released).

Pictures with loot:

Taken with the N95 and fiddled with.

He gets to ride in the car with his own bed!

And he’s smug about it

No fair.

Last weekend we finally drove (not biked, mind you) over the infamous Sonora pass to camp in the Toyiabe NF.

Leavitt Meadows

Hiking up to Secret Lake

Secret Lake, where Kostadis got nibbled on by a crayfish

Tony wading in Walker River

We did a 6 mile 1300 foot elevation gain hike on Sunday, which just about killed the dog. 500 feet from the end he lied down in the shade in the middle of the trail and refused to move.

Eventually we were able to coax him to hobble to the campsite, where it turned out that he rubbed off his paw pads from the rocky trails. Now we are looking to get him these: