You know what that means. . . dogwalk par-tay! We set that sucker up two days ago, and it's not coming down. OK, it will probably have some of the evil white stuff touching its rubbery goodness at some point this week, but we're hoping only for flurries that melt away post-haste.
In the meantime, run, run, run little border collie. Run, run, run, goofy coonhound. Errr, I meant "stately" and "handsome."
By the way, sewing machine oil works great to help the pins slide right into the dogwalk hinges. And it's nontoxic. Now ends this public service message.
Video set to the music of Arcade Fire. Because they're Canadian, so of course they're awesome.
Well then. Little Miss Spare-ee-O was, shall we say, . . . happy. . . to be back in class. As in, cloud 9 thrilled. As in, going big on every possible obstacle just because she could RUN. Wheeee!
Yeah, we are so ready for the snow and ice to BE GONE. Maybe this weekend? (fingers crossed).
She did look supercute, and she did her aframe contacts, and err, some of her dogwalks (eep!).
So, I set up the plank in the basement yesterday, where she was in the yellow every time--she always is in the basement. Hmmm.
There's a new agility dog in town. Ms. Sparrow participated in her very first trial today, and came home with a sparkly new title!
Additionally, and possibly even more triumphantly, Reuben returned to agility trialing for the very first time since very nearly checking out of existence last November.
It was an ASCA trial. We each entered only two jumpers runs so we could leave the other dogs snug at home, and so we didn't strain anyone's delicate sensibilities with overmuch agility. Although, I do believe my delicate sensibilities were strained with the 5:30 AM alarm this morning.
Also, Sparrow thinks it was BS that she only got to do 27 total seconds of agility.
Sparrow's runs:
Reuben's runs. He was totally robbed of the one Q he needed for his Elite Jumpers title by the superfast ASCA SCT of 29 seconds. Next time, Reuben, you will be even more triumphantly triumphant.
"I'm ready for my photoshoot! You know, the camera loves me just as much as EVERYONE in the WHOLE WORLD loves me!"
Sparrow, this isn't about being cute. It's about looking like a capital B capital C Border Collie.
"What? Of course I'm capital C Cute! People I don't even know tell me I have the cutest face in the WHOLE WORLD! And then I snuggle them! And they love it! OMG, was that a squirrel? O.M.G."
Yeah, so we are considering applying for PAL numbers for Sparrow and Reuben. Now that the AKC is officially letting dogs of all backgrounds play their games (kinda sorta), it's like a big group hug out there in AKC-land, right?
This is the time of the year when I start doing magical math in my head, adding up the weeks of winter left, and pretending that it doesn't snow in March. Or April.
This is the time of the year for an agility party in the basement.
