Great Flyball Weekend for Halas!

[Leslie and Halas]

This past weekend, we went to the CanAm flyball tournament in Indianapolis. It's the largest tournament in the US each year. They broke the world record for the most participants on Sunday, with 810 dogs! Halas and I were there Friday and Saturday, but we had to miss Sunday. Halas had been doing really well in tournaments lately, but those have all been with only one ring (one race) running. When we went to a tournament with 2 rings earlier in the year, Halas was pretty overwhelmed, and he didn't do that well. CanAm was running 5 rings on Friday and 6 rings on Saturday, so we really didn't know what to expect. But we didn't need to worry about him at all. He did just great! He ran in 3 of our 4 races on Friday and 3 of 4 on Saturday. I think he only made a couple of mistakes, and I made a couple of mistakes by sending him too early, but those were no big deal. We borrowed a dog, too, and Halas had to run right after the new dog, which means he was running full speed past a strange dog, and he didn't even hesitate. That's really great, because a lot of dogs won't do that. So, once again, I was really proud of him. He was tired near the end of Saturday, but he still ran really well. And every time I got him out of his kennel, he pulled hard towards the rings, because he knew that it meant he would get to run.

We also saw 4 other doodles there! One mini (the same mini we saw at an earlier tournament), one Jackdoodle look-a-like, one black with a little brown mixed in, and one phantom. I didn't get to confirm with the owner that the phantom was a doodle, but he sure looked like one.

We also had someone take some video of one of our races. It wasn't on my camera, so I have to wait for it to be posted. It will probably be awhile, because the person posting it is going to be traveling for the next week or so. But I'll post them as soon as I get my hands on them.

[Tessa, Ellie and Wheezy]

Way to go Halas!!

[Suzann, Rosey & Bandit]

Zoom!! Zoom!! You go Halas! Rosey is soooo jealous!

[Carole (*Koda*Monty*Bindi)]

I just watched the videos and what an amazing thing to watch! What energy! Great job Leslie and Halas!

[Christine & Shelby]

The videos are awesome.... I love it! Amazing how diverse the dogs are on Halas' team! What a fun thing to do with your Doodle. There is an intro to Fly Ball class here in town... I might just have to check it out!

[Carol and Banjo]

That is soooooo exciting to watch!!!!! You must have so much fun Leslie! Way to go Halas!

[Leslie and Halas]

Videos are posted!

http://www.youtube.com/user/NDFlyball#p/a/f/2/c3LYCNSv9tA

Videos 1, 2, and 3 are 3 heats in the same race. In #2, Halas drops his ball, and stops to say hi to the box loader. She told him to get his ball, so he finally grabbed it and came back.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Way to go, Halas! You always make us proud!

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

Halas, I'm so impressed! I love the fact that people are seeing our Doodles in these situations. Leslie, kudos to you too....this didn't happen by accident. I can't wait for the video.

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Congratulations!

[Penny, Comiskey & Beemer]

Halas....you make us proud!