Piper

Piper's mom said:
How many points do you need? Is that anything like ours where you compete in Excellent and Masters in same trial?
I'll do Masters with Piper eventually but not until we're done obedience...too many signs that can mess them up for Utility. We're going to start first on his RAE. $400 entry fees...plus hotel!
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for the AKC Rach- you need 20 Triple Qs (Master, Exc and Adv) and 300 points, 150 have to come from the Master class. When they first put out the point schedule, you needed more points from the Master class and while you had to Q in Advanced, they didn't count those points towards the total. So, I think that they have made it more reasonable with the modifications.

Cran needs 70 Master points- we didn't get high enough scores in our early Master Qs to have maybe our first 8 Q scores count.
Cran got his first RAE before they came out with the Master class so in the course of this, 2 RM titles and 2 more RAE titles.
I'm not even going to attempt to add up how much it cost.........
I want Cran to get his Rach at my club's obedience/rally trial in Nov. so previously we haven't really traveled with motel stays until this year. The trial we're going to this month is having 5 rally trials in 3 days- it's in LA near Baton Rouge so we'll be in a motel for that one. Should we be lucky enough to get 5 perfect scores, we'll still need 20 points. We have plans to go to Atlanta for a trial that has 2 rally trials in one day. The schedule actually means I won't have to take time off for that one but we need the potential to get some scores that weekend........
It will have taken Cran two years from his first Master Q until his Rach- but we weren't seriously pursuing the Rach when we started.
 
Hanne said:
Gloria - if I saw such a wonderful picture somewhere random on the web
- I would think it was lined up :wink2:

Beau is so amazing and Liam is so comfortable with him :yes:

Imagine you three have found each other :hugs
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Beau loved Liam from the moment I brought him home. He just took over as a loving parent.

if Liam had tried it with Baron things would not have worked out so well!

I know that Riley was the lead dog in Lisa’s pack. So he kept a tight reign on Piper and Finnie!
 
Piper's mom said:
We're 5 weeks away from our last obedience trial of the season (a 4 day show) and Piper is peaking at just the right time! We had obedience class yesterday and Piper did the best he's done all year...he was spot on for his scent discrimination (he's been off the metal for a couple months), he took the metal without hesitation! His seek back is always good of course but his fronts and finishes and his heeling were so good...better than they've been in 2 years (this of course is where you lose the most points). I've been working him on his fronts with 2 2x4's that I funnel out. I leave him (on a recall) a good 5 feet away from them at an angle so he has to correct his angle...what an amazing difference it's made! I know this is just practice and the trial is a whole nother ballgame but it's got my hopes up. I'm also working daily on his directed jumping...I need to get him to where he was a year ago when he didn't mess up his jumps. I figure if I do them EVERY day for 5 weeks he'll be confident on them.
Finnie is another story....this boy anticipates EVERYTHING! The jumps (the worst), the signs, turns, heeling...my instructor laughingly said she's never seen a dog that anticipated Rally before:ROFLMAO:!
His heeling is considerably better since we figured out I was going too fast but now I need to teach him he doesn't know as much as he thinks he does! Little brat, I do a recall to front and then get him to finish without the front (Rally sign) then next time I do a normal recall he wants to go straight to finish....smarty pants!
I must say though, I watched a video of Piper and I from May and I was heeling so fast....it's no wonder I'd get a forge now and then from Piper...poor guy didn't know what I was doing! I've been practicing with a slower heel with Piper as well and it's made such a difference. Now just to pick it up a wee bit and we're perfect!
Looking forward to the trial (November 8-11) on holidays and 4 days in a hotel. It's actually going to be a real holiday (aside from having to get up at 6:30 every day lol).
Now if Mother Nature cooperates and keeps the snow away until after November 11! I hate highway driving at the best of times and it's a 3 hour drive.
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Sounds like you have a solid training plan. Good luck! Looking forward to hearing how it goes. Diane
 
Calliesmom said:
he is pretty cute in that pic- and pretty proud:yes:
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He was pretty proud lol. Sure brings back memories...our first time in the ring for Novice and he'd done good until the off leash heeling. Judge said are you ready...I said READY! Forward...I said Piper heel and off we went, or so I thought! Judge said he's not with you, I turned around and looked and he's still sitting there! I said oh chit and the judge said its ok, your still in it...call him to heel and start going. I did and he came running to heel with me but boy oh boy when you least expect it lol! Think we lost 1 point for that.
 
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