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today i want to post about my first rally judging assignment for my own club minnesota mixed breed club i joined the club several years ago because i loved what they were doing this was before akc allowed all american dogs this club held events for several organizations that allowed all dogs to play one of the first games i played with this club was apdt rally which later became wcrl i loved it and was hooked i became a member and did whatever i could to help out first working trials then as a committee member and now finally as a judge today we held 2 trials as the judge i created the courses and judged the competitors it sounds like an easy job but in reality it s not each trial has at least 5 courses to be created maps and score sheets each course has multiple requirements to fulfill the level and each course on average takes me about an hour to create its quite exciting to see the dogs run those courses and to see where i could have done them differently based on how the dogs respond today some went as expected some were a little easier some a little harder it makes me so happy to see the successful teams it makes me happier to see teams that have a bobble but take it in stride and still compete happily it has never been my intention to create a course that is too hard for any team challenging yes but appropriately challenging some highlights today several beautiful young dogs runs they were happy they were upbeat and they ran with joy the veteran dogs had lovely runs culminating in a dog who struggled today coming together with a beautiful perfect run new exhibitors starting out some showing nerves at first but relaxing as they went along from my perspective a lovely day thank you to everyone who trusted me enough to show to me it was a good day for me too wash showed in the judges class and had 2 nice runs posted by dawn at 10 28 pm no comments wednesday december 31 2014 2014 was good 2015 will be better 2014 like any year had its ups and downs i am choosing to focus on the ups while accepting the downs magic magic retired mostly this year i had hopes of finishing his catch but his body decided otherwise however we finished up in style at the cpe national where he ran 4 times with 4 q s and two placements a first and a second we shared our retirement weekend with tracie and mira with commemorative shirts and a cake a wonderful weekend with good friends and a great support team magic also got to play in barn hunt where he earned a rati and ratn we did a little asca obedience earning his cd and rally where he earned the rnx with a high in trial we also went to the cardigan national where my best man worked very hard doing agility rally and obedience for me then come fall magic and i took the atts temperament test where magic passed and can add tt to his list of achievements early in the year peace popped into my lap and suggested that she might want to be doing a little more she might like to learn a few things so we started doing a some agility and obedience classes but peaces big day came this fall when at the ukc gateway show she finished her ukc grand championship remember that temperament test well bentley took it as well and also added tt to her resume bentley also earned her akc rn bn and ukc uro2 washburn had a good year as well he earned his akc grand championship he also got his first group placement with a nohs group 2 and the same day a rally advance first place at the cardigan national he earned his rn then later in the year he ran his first agility trials where he earned a uki ssb and ukc ag1 at gateway he got his first total dog award where he also ran agility with 2 perfect scores and second places then later in the fall wash and tracie earned his first cpe title when i was out of commission david and siren had a good year siren earned her ukc weight pull versatility she also earned her rati and ratn as well at the cardigan national she and i earned her bn and her rn a little of the not so great darryl had foot surgery and shortly after that wound up retiring i messes up my knee down in mo at gateway and had surgery as well i am hoping that soon i will be back to running and able to get back to training our furnace went out and we had that unexpected cost but we have heat so i am not complaining about that either its all good posted by dawn at 9 11 pm no comments monday november 10 2014 knees and good friends never take either of them for granted a couple of weeks ago i went down to missouri to purina farms to the ukc gateway show with a good friend tracie and a bunch of dogs thursday tracie was judging so i got to hang out and watch the fun friday wash and i ran agility it was wash s first time running agility in a new place but he was perfect 2 perfect 200s and 2 second placements bentley and i tried obedience but it wasn t to be tracie and bents and bents brother luxor played some rally too we all played in conformation all 3 days where peace took breed 3 of the 6 shows which was enough to finally finish her ukc grand championship however on sunday while in the breed ring with peace my knee went pop and i suddenly couldn t stand on it much less walk the pop was loud and it was extremely uncomfortable i spend the rest of the day grabbing people to show my dogs for me and icing it thankfully i was traveling with tracie and not by myself as i am sure i couldn t have gotten packed up much less gotten home fast forward to this last weekend i had my weekend all planned wash was going to do conformation on saturday and his first cpe trial on sunday well thanks to the knee that was out but that same good friend tracie offered to run wash for me at the cpe trial i wasn t sure that he would after all it was only his second trial at a new place but my fears were unneeded tracie and wash did really well together which made me super happy i think its wonderful that a young green dog could adjust to a new handler a new place and play new games wash and tracie earned his cl1 f title by qualifying in fullhouse and jumpers wash had a few baby dog moments that caused an nq in standard and snooker but overall those runs were good too here are my 2 favorite photos from the day i love the look of intensity on his face and while the dogwalk picture is not a great one it does show how he was able to keep working even with a new handler and the judge right there so even though i will be having surgery soon i am still very pleased with the corgis posted by dawn at 7 37 pm no comments tuesday september 2 2014 new experiences judging talk about a fun time last weekend i had the opportunity to judge the herding group at the puppy match at the amana ia dog show what a fun time that was even though this was just a match i spent the weeks preceding the event reading up on all the herding group breed standards i read them i re read them and for the breeds i expected to see i went to the breed club sites and also reviewed those i was very glad i did because in all honesty judging is a hard job looking at all those beautiful puppies and mentally comparing them to the standards and not to each other is requires quite a bit of brain power and organization i tried very hard to consider the virtues of each dog comparing to the standard rather than focusing on the imperfections comparing a 4 month old baby to a breed standard is a little different than comparing a 11 month old baby yet judging is about choosing the best representative of the breed on that day not the potential by looking at the virtues of the dog at that moment i could focus on those aspects rather than the missing pieces by that i mean a 4 month old pup will not have the development or maturity but it can still have balance lovely movement correct angles by focusing on the qualities that are present i tried to find the pups that exuded quality and balance and beauty my group winner was a cattle dog pup who went on and won best in match i loved the balance i saw in this pup the beautiful head and expression when it wasn t puppy bouncing its movement was effortless smooth and flowing a lovely picture when still and eye catching when moving i simply could not take my eye off this puppy a few of the puppies made me giggle out loud and they all had me smiling it s given me a new respect for the judges who do this on a weekly basis and quite surprising to me i would really like to do this again someday speaking of judging a short while back i became a provisional rally and agility judge for ukc last week i became a wcrl rally judge also for ukc i so still need to complete some apprentice assignments so i expect that this winter i will start looking for those opportunities as most of you may know while i greatly enjoy the conformation ring the performance events are my true loves i am looking forward to the chance to experience these events in a new way as well posted by dawn at 10 05 am no comments monday august 18 2014 patience or lack thereof in most things in life i am not a patient person i do not like to wait if i have a question i want answers now if i want to eat something i do which totally explains my weight issues doesn t it if i have applied for a job or ordered something quite frankly i want it now in most parts of my life this holds true but when it comes to the dogs i have learned some patience and i have failed some patience i love to compete with my dogs i enjoy having goals and working toward those goals but i have learned that while it may be fun to go out and try things without much preparation not every dog can handle that i was spoiled with magic he is a once in a lifetime dog and has pretty much all along done anything i asked of him no matter how unprepared he was and really do a pretty fair job of it but i learned along the way that in all cases that might not have been the best approach sure we were relatively successful but how much more could we have done with more preparation i learned this fairly early on when he told me in no uncertain terms he did not enjoy competing in obedience since he can t tell me i can only guess that came about because i pushed him but he made it clear to me the day he refused to heel and laid and watched the entire heeling pattern so with my next dog grace i didn t push i figured we had time time to perfect the skills time to become a better team we didn t have that time now i have other dogs i am working with and trying to figure out what is that correct balance and part of making those decisions is the fact that quite frankly i am terrified of losing another dog early as i did grace how to balance the enjoyment of being with the dogs competing because i do love that part of the game with the thought of being truly ready is anyone ever ready how do you decide i know my dogs could care less if they ever competed that part is for me and i know that now that magic is retired though i can tell that he misses it he may not have understood it all as competing but he certainly understood the being with me and getting to play those games that he loved like barn hunt and agility how do you decide when is the right time how do you decide when it s ok to go out and enjoy the ride failures and all rather than stay home searching for perfection for now i know my younger dogs are not yet ready for every challenge out there but i think with a couple we are almost there almost at the point where it s time to start facing those new challenges and i am impatient to start posted by dawn at 3 17 pm 1 comment monday august 11 2014 on to a new chapter i have been bad about blogging this year i admit it it was a rough beginning to the year and quite frankly writing about it made it too real too final so i have been avoiding the blog but avoidance doesn t change things does it at the end of least year magic came off the agility course limping i gave him a few months off visited his care team and he seemed recovered but i think in my heart i knew the first trial we went to this year before he ever ran i was in tears pretty certain that this was his last trial and yes in his second run of the day he came off the aframe with a cry of pain i was heartbroken to be honest i adore this dog and i knew his agility career was at an end we had worked hard last year to qualify for the cpe nationals i had hoped to be able to finish his catch i had goals i have always known that in the right hands this little dog would have been a superstar but he was saddled with me as his partner and we muddled through we went back into recovery and therapy mode and he did improve i made the decision that we would go to cpe nationals but that this was our retirement magic would get to run but no standard and that i would make decisions on what games to play based on the courses where we could limit those down contacts we had a great time he played 4 of the 6 games qualifying in all 4 we did not run at all on saturday as it was pouring rain the fields were mud and i wasn t willing to risk injury it was a good end to his agility career i was sad and i miss taking my boy out bar hopping on the weekends but it was the right decision magic and i will still be out and about we will just be trying new things together heck just this last weekend he passed the atts temperament test posted by dawn at 8 17 am no comments tuesday december 31 2013 2013 highlights and a look toward 14 well another year is almost over and it is time to look at this years highlights and maybe set some goals for tomorrow it is always interesting to review what the dreams were and what progress we made so lets start with a look back for magic i had hoped to get his cdx and to continue working toward another agility championship well we definately made progress toward agility but not toward his cdx in fact we met a couple of minor agility goals he earned high novice in asca and he earned high in trial preferred at the cardigan national we did lots of training for obedience and did earn akc bn cdsp cd and also his wcrl archex for siren i kind of forgot that i was going to work obedience with her and started training agility instead her 2 accomplishments for the year were getting her cgc and her ca with peace i had hoped to work on her ukc grand championship well we did have a couple of shoes with competition but sadly made no progress washburns plan was to work on his championship and one of my dreams for the year was to earn his bn well he surpassed that earning his championship with 3 majors and earning his cgc as well as his bn for ms bentley my plan had been to work on her ukc grand with a win at the wgsdci national as a dream we didn t manage any ukc wins but she did win wb bow bos at the national she looked so pretty then later in the year she earned her cgc so for the new year hmm lets see i am dreaming here but i am hoping for that cdx a breed win a catch an rn or 2 and a cgc i am hoping to play lots of agility practice some nose games and play with all of the dogs but mostly i am just ho...