Well, tomorrow I’m headed off with Chase to the DOCNA Agility Championships! I’m pretty excited that he qualified this year. We’ve never been to a Championships before so I think it’ll be fun. It’s going to be in Grand Junction, Colorado, which is pretty close. It’s only 5 hours from us. And we’ll be stopping in Richfield to pick up my friend Marie and her dog Zoe. As they qualified too and we’re gonna have a fun trip! This pictures… Continue reading
Chase Resting
Well, my goofy Border Collie boy, Chase, got a new U-FLI flyball title last weekend. He reached is 9,500 points mark and now he has his Top Flight Premier Title. Woo! This is much happier to think about than Angel, like my last post… however, thinking of Angel kinda makes me happy too, since I am so grateful she was part of my life. Dang there’s those darn tears again.
So anyway Chase loves flyball. He even held a Stand Stay in the lanes when I had to go talk to the box loader. LOL he’s a goof. It was hard for him and I didn’t make him wait long. Flyball is Chase’s favorite sport by far. Not much thinking, just flat our running in super high drive. I don’t think he’d do very well in medical assistant school even though he’s a Border Collie and is probably smart enough for it. 
So flyball was fun. The weekend of the 24-27th we’ll be in Grand Junction, Colorado, for the DOCNA agility championships. That’ll be fun too. Then in October we are going to the Jumps N Jackpots Flyball Tournament held by Touch N Go. That will also be fun. No obedience for a while, much to Chase’s happiness!
Four Pups
I’ve been looking at old pictures lately… I have my Macbook set up to use my photo folders as my screen saver. It’s a dangerous thing… because I can just sit and watch it for hours. 
Well maybe not hours, but for a good long time that’s for sure.
Makes me think about term life insurance and getting old and stuff. Especially since many of the pictures have Angel in them. And yeah I still cry quite often because she’s gone and I’ll never see her in this life again. It still makes me sad. Though I know she’s not in pain anymore. And I have to remember her when she was alive and happy and full of life.
Anyway, so this picture is of me and my husband and the four we had at the time… Lucy, Levi, Angel and Chase. Boy did Chase look out of place with the three smooth blue collies. LOL. Now we have more different breeds so he fits in a bit better. 
This weekend I tried Chase in an AKC agility trial. It’s the first one I’ve put him in, probably in about 10 months. We have a really hard time qualifying in AKC because of the tight courses. I wanted to test my handling since we’ve been going to a lot of Stacy Workshops over the last few months, to see if I’d gotten any better. The good news, yes I’ve gotten a lot better. The bad news, I haven’t gotten… Continue reading
It seems like in the dog sports world, most people find a breed and pretty much stick with it. And then there is me. LOL. When I had Tatum and Levi at the ASCA rally and were walking around with just them, I found it odd that I had only two dogs with me on leashes and they were both smooth collies! I will admit, I am not as bonded to my two Border Collies as I am to the… Continue reading
The Family
It’s really not often I get a picture of all six of our dogs. While I was feeding Lucy this morning, most of the dogs were on the couch. So I put the rest up there and snapped a few pictures.
Lucy is in her chair about three times a day now. I really hate her megaesophagus. I love her, and I want her happy and healthy. And of course we do everything we can for her. Our floors are kinda gross now, since she regurgitates still. But we clean up after her and move on. She’s a good girl and our special collie.
The rest of the dogs are good. Muffit goes hiking with my husband a lot. I don’t post about him much because I don’t do much with him. Levi is retired, cranky, and jealous that he’s not my main companion anymore, but I train him some and go for walks and things and that makes him happy. Tatum, Chase and Jet are my three main sport dogs now and they are fun to work with.
All in all, our happy house of six dogs is really peaceful. Everyone gets along and everything is going well. I miss Angel terribly, still. The worst thing about coming back from trips is not having her here to welcome me home.
Everyone else is pretty happy and healthy though. But I don’t like it when the dogs get old. I wish they were all young and healthy.
Spirit Chasers Spice CDX
Chase got his CDX!!!! I am thrilled! I almost thought it would never happen. He started laying down on his sit stays back in March. After the pigeon incidence and he got to do a 9.5 minute down stay in the ring. After that, I thought we were pretty much screwed. But with lots of training and persistence, he held his sit stay today! Wooo Hooo!
It’s my first CDX ever on a dog. Levi had one leg toward a CDX before I retired him. He just wouldn’t hold the out of site stays. So that’s okay. But Chase always had the potential. He has the potential for a UD, too, so now that his CDX is done we are going to work the UD exercises. That’ll be fun. I do want to get his ASCA CDX too, though, but hopefully that sit stay will hold for those legs too.
Today was an adventerous day… last night driving up to Idaho Falls Chase pooped in his crate, which is really rare. He’s usually really good about letting me know when he has to go out. But he didn’t give me even a peep. Then this morning his poop was solid again. But last night Tatum didn’t settle at all and kept me awake most of the night. She’s usually really good in the hotel rooms so I don’t know what was up with her. Hopefully tonight she’ll be good and tired so she’ll sleep. She also Q’d in Rally Novice B, yay! I’ll post more about that later. I was so nervous about Chase and that CDX leg that I didn’t spend as much mental energy on Tatum as I should have. But she did good, she got a 91 out of 100 so I was very proud of her!
So after we were done at the trial we came back to the hotel room and I took a nap. It felt good, I was exhausted. The stress of the CDX was such that I felt like I was going to throw up after it was over. I was so relieved. So I took a nap and when I woke up I couldn’t find my smart phone. I looked in the hotel and the van and couldn’t find it. So then I remembered that I’d thrown some stuff away at the trial site and though oh no, maybe the phone was with all that stuff.
So we went back to the trial site and they garbage collectors had come only an hour before! I thought I was screwed! So we did some training with the puppies and some friends and that was fun. Jet did some go-outs and some heeling and some dumbbell and had a great time.
When we were done I figured I’d walk the path once again from the van to the tent set up to see if I could find my phone.. and as I got closer to the tent site I realized that I had never taken my chair down, and maybe it was in my drink holder. And it was! I was so relieved! I don’t want to buy a new phone, I can’t afford it! And I really like my smart phone. :)
We then went to Cafe Rio for dinner, and then we went back to the hotel. Chase is again runny so I’m not sure what’s up with him. It’s not affecting his performance, though. But since he now has his CDX I’m not going to put him back in the ring Saturday or Sunday. There is no reason to waste energy on those stays when he doesn’t have to. So now I get to concentrate on Tatum’s Rally for the next couple of days and I hope she will get her Rally Novice title!
It’s time for bed, good night! ;)
Jet and Chase
I won’t need any diamond engagement rings up in Idaho… but I do want some Q ribbons! Tatum is in Rally, too. She seems to have regressed a bit lately into some more shyness so I hope she does okay. My poor special needs rescue girl. I adore her, I do push her, but without a little push she’d be a bubble dog and would be too afraid to leave the house. So a little push is a good thing. As long as it involves lots of Tuna Brownies!
I hope to have internet there and be able to post about our Obedience.
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