Kona Earned her Rally Excellent Title this weekend!

[GBK]

Kona CGC RE and I had such a Wonderful Weekend. She completed her Rally Excellent Title with a 92 score on Sat. and a 94 out of 100 score on Sun. If the little rascal had done the moving down all the way the first time though, we would have scored 97 on Sunday and placed! We are going to try out Agility next, I signed her up for an intro class to see if she likes it our not. We watched some amazing dogs on Sunday run the Agility courses, looks like FUN.

Five of us competed this weekend, they are in the picture in the middle. What I think is great is that out of the five, four are mixed breeds competing in AKC Rally :) The first is Cooper, he is a "Frug" frenchie and pug, next is Sadie, she is a Goldendoodle, she won second place on Sat and first place on Sunday in NoviceA. My Kona is next, then our best friend Skylar who is a Snauzer, and last but not least is Otis, he is a French Mastiff and English Mastiff mix.

A little rainy on Sat but Sun was beautiful, sunrises were spectacular through our Red Rock area. The Donkey is another story...... I really wanted to get some pics of them as I had seen a few on my way out each morning. On the way home, there were bunches of them. I stopped on the other side of the road, snapped a few pictures and then Kona saw them and all heck broke loose! As she barked her head off, the donkey started making a bee line over to us. Before I could get rid of the camer, roll up the window and put the car in drive this guy was 12 inches from my face looking in the window at the Kona. I looked at him, he looked at me and I finally got the car in drive and got out of there LOL I guess I will be doing my animal watching sans dogs next time ;)

[Leslie and Halas]

That just makes Kona's title even more impressive!

[GBK]

That is Great Leslie, the less distractions the better :) We end up competing in actual Dog Parks that they rent for the weekend at some trials. Not fun at those, too many smells!

[Leslie and Halas]

We compete indoors, in the same place we practice, so we don't have too many extra distractions to deal with. He gets excited any time we go to the obedience club, since we're doing Rally or Flyball anytime we go there.

[GBK]

Oh, good luck Leslie and Halas! It is a true team effort to get through off leash. We practice indoors and there are so many new smells to the grass when it is time to compete! Let us know how you do :) Does Halas get excited when you ask him if he wants to "RallyO"???

[Leslie and Halas]

Nice job! I think Rally is so fun. We're trying out UKC Level 2 Rally next weekend. We've got our Level 1, but this will be our first attempt at Level 2. If all goes well, we'll have 2 legs towards our Level 2 title by the end of next weekend. It's off-leash, so it should be pretty interesting.

[GBK]

Thanks Rose, Nancie and Linda :) Nancie she is a little show off, she will put on a show for you....

Ann, agility is what we are thinking of next. The link below is our Novice run, I am hoping to get a copy of this last run, but my girlfriend said she did not do that great of a job on videoing, we will see. Thanks for the compliments on my landscape and sunrise pics. It worked out so perfect for the photography class I just started, the first assignment was LANDSCAPES! Everyone loved the mountain one with the road leading to it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Fluffydogs33

[Linda and "Toby"]

Congratulations, Kona! Woo-hoo!!!!

[Nancie & Gracie Doodle]

Congratulations Kona...you sweet thing! If you come up for one of our romps we want to see what you can do!!! Time to show off. Congratulations to you too Gina. Lots of hard work I am sure!

[Rose]

Congratulations, Kona! Love your photos!

[Ann Kendig]

Yay!! Congratulations Kona!!! Great Job! I think doing this with my dogs would be so much fun! Did anyone video this? I would love to see it. After some of our CGC classes for Sheba & Duke we were able to take the dogs through the agility course. Both dogs loved it. Sheba, of course, did wonderfully and had a great time. Duke, however, made up his own course as he got a zoomie and ran aimlessly around the course jumping over things and running back and forth through the tunnel. All of us had a good laugh. Oh how I wish I would have gotten that on tape! Duke has a loooong way to go! Love the donkey story and your pictures are beautiful! The sunset shot and the landscape shot look like postcards!