A trip to New Hampshire and Britt’s first time in the Rally Obedience Ring…..
Linda and Star on the porch at AK9-C
This weekend my friend Linda and I made a trip to Amherst, New Hampshire for an obedience trial held at one of my favorite training facilities, American K9 Country. Linda had entered her beautiful Border Collie Star in this trial. They have done so much together; Star has her conformation Championship, herding, rally and obedience titles! Linda and Star were making their debut in the Open A obedience ring, and I decided to enter Britt in Rally – Obedience. As well as this being Star’s debut in Open, it would be Britt’s debut too…..her first time ever in a competition performance ring!
As usual AK9-C was decorated to the nines, and provided some really cute photo ops for the dogs. Here are a couple of the photos we took.
Star, Stormy and Britt (on the bench) at AK9-C
Britt and Stormy
Linda and Star had really nice classes both days, unfortunately, there was a a single glitch each day that kept them from qualifying. As for Britt, I was very pleased with both of her Rally classes. On Saturday, she did a really nice job earning her first Rally Novice leg, our final score was 97 (out of 100) the 3 points that we lost were due to a handler error on my part! Then on Sunday, her score was a 99 earning First Place and her 2nd leg toward her “RN”! The club had a show photographer, so we had pictures done to commemorate the occasion. See below:
Britt's first Rally Novice Leg, Judge James Ashton
The way the judging schedule was set up, Linda and I were in the ring at the same time, so I was lucky to at least get this very short video clip from Britt’s Rally class on Sunday:
Britt 10/18/09 Rally Novice B- 2nd leg
Our trek home was made during the second snow fall in a week, it’s very strange to see snow falling when most of the trees are still sporting green leaves!
Our second snow fall this week!