Cocoa is proudly displaying the 3 FIRST place ribbons she earned on the way to her very first title, her NAJ!!!  I am very proud of my little girl   She is not even completly trained yet.  I only entered her in the trial because I was the Trial Chairperson and had to be there till the end of the day anyway, so I thought we might as well play in Novice Jumpers and see what she could do.   Here is the link to her final Novice JWW run.

Cocoa with her Novice JWW placement ribbons

Another great herding lesson tonight!  Cocoa worked on Indian Runner ducks tonight, a little change of pace from the geese…..she really liked them!  Click here to see Cocoa in action with the geese.

SO VERY proud of my boy, this is his second year in a row that he has qualified! 

From:Steve Herwig [mailto:smh@akc.org]
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 2:32 PM
To:wyndridge@comcast.net
Subject: AKC 2012 National Agility Championship – Robbie has Qualified

CONGRATULATIONS! 

MACH Wyndridge Mondavi RN XF has qualified for AKC’s 2012 National Agility Championship, to be held March 31 – April 1, 2012 in Reno, Nevada.

The premium list has been posted online at: http://www.akc.org/events/agility/national_agility_championship/  Online entries are being accepted (no fee charged when entering Nationals).

Check out the new Time2Beat Challenger’s ‘Bye’ Class on Friday afternoon, along with the chance to run a Warm-Up Standards class on Friday morning. The winners of Friday’s Time2Beat class will earn an automatic spot into Sunday’s Challenger’s round. If any of those teams make it to Challenger’s or Finals based on their Saturday/Sunday performance, then the next in line shall be given the ‘Bye’ spot. Additional details may be found inside the premium list.

Please realize that results from November’s trials are not yet completely processed, so if you have an additional dog that has qualified and/or friends with dogs who have qualified of which I have not sent an email notice, I will send out a 2nd email announcement when November’s result processing has been completed.

Best regards …

Steve Herwig
AKC National Agility Championship trial secretary

Our site has had a recent update, the addition of a “Hopefuls” section on the girls page!  There are now pages for our youngsters Cocoa and Darla!

For this year’s Performance Week on Shelties On Line, I did this ad for Robbie completing his MACH……

Robbie's ad for Performance Week

I was asked to write an article about how I go about competing with my dogs in the different venues.  That will be published this weekend with the rest of the ads, I will put the link here when it comes up.

Here is Sundae’s finishing photo, courtesy of Terese.  Sundae is now a brand new Canadian Champion, she is by Am/Can Ch. Belmark’s Lo and Behold ROM/ROMC out of our girl Jetta (Shaizach Wyndridge Obsidian). Sundae was  bred by Becky Jarit and myself, she is owned and loved  by Terese Karpluk.  Terese owner handled her to all but one point.  Congratulations Terese and Sundae, what an awesome job you have done!

Can Champion Shaizach Terave Hot Fudge

Today at the Talcott Mountain Agility Trial,  Britt earned her 10th Masters Jumpers leg and a brand new title, her MXJ!!!!!!!!!!

I am very proud of my little girl!

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Terese Karpluk on a GREAT weekend in Canada…..it is now Canadian Champion Shaizach Terave Hot Fudge!!!  Sundae is from our Jetta’s first litter, she went to live with Terese in Canada last year as a young puppy.  Terese has done an amazing job with her, and can now proudly say that she handled her all the way to a Canadian Championship!!!!!

I can’t wait to seee her picture!!

I took Cocoa for her OFA hip and elbow prelim X rays today, and  the vet said that her hips looked EXCELLENT!!!  They will be sent off to OFA to see what their radiologist’s official word is.  She had her first OFA Thyroid Panel drawn today as well.  Cocoa spent most of the day sleeping off the sedative, poor girlie!  These were the final tests she needed to complete all of her health clearances, so far every thing has been very good, I couldn’t be happier!

Cocoa's hip x ray

To celebrate Sundae’s recent success, Terese had this lovely ad put together and it has been running on The Sheltie Strut.  The Sheltie Strut is the Canadian equivalent of our Shelties on Line. 

Sundae's ad on the Sheltie Strut