We got our PAL # today!

Thank you all. It takes so little to amuse me these days. Like I told my mom, if you go with Canine Partners, go online and they assign you a number, easy peasy. If you are AKC you just mail in what the breeder hands you, easy peasy. PAL, you have to really work for it and you might fail! I feel accomplished just getting her recognized.

It took two weeks & one day to and from all the way to California. The check cleared on Friday which was my tip to be watching.

We are set up for 4 weeks of Agility 1 -- then 6 weeks of Intermediate Obedience 1 (doing over since it has been awhile and she was Spanish-speaking at the beginning and missed a bit til it clicked) -- AND 6 weeks of Scent 1 at the same time as the obedience. There is one week it looks like we will have THREE classes in one week YIKES! If she totally digs Agility or Scent we will continue, but I see myself heading through Intermediate 2 and Advanced obedience and then into privates or small group for dedicated Rally work. Oddly, I don't need to win at rally, just score high enough against myself. But hey, get a dose of a high score or a placement and I will turn into a shark out for blood, I am sure. We have a lot of Rally events within 5 hours of my house North or South each year. I would be much more limited with Canine Partners so I am thrilled. Maybe I will have the courage some day to do Rally at the sheltie speciality shows!
 
Fabulous news!! Now you won't be limited in entering any event. We still have clubs around here that don't accept Canine Partners....very short sighted, I'd say!!
 
We still have clubs around here that don't accept Canine Partners....very short sighted, I'd say!!

Definitely. As we all know mixed breed are gateway dogs. :lol:

My personal wish is that there be an alterd conformation category. That was amazing in the cat showing. What do you do with your cryptorchids? What do you do with your females who are being retired from breeding? Premiership (altered). A great show cat titles in kitten, championship, AND premiership and the clubs and CFA keep the people in the showhalls much much longer. Breeders sell alters to pet homes who dabble in premiership and add to the breeders' grand counts and addict them to showing and eventually into the championship class. Not having an altered class, I feel, is short sighted.
 
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