APDT Rally Obedience Trial – Sit Happens! March 24, 2011
Posted by admin in : Denise's Blog , add a commentI attended the APDT Rally Obedience Trial at Sit Happens! in Calgary, Ab, along with three students from Elkford, Fernie and Jaffray. Nervous energy ran high as it was the first trial for Dee O’Connor with Labrador – Molly, and Jenn Williams with Jack Russell – Spencer and Border Collie – Abby. For Sylvia Howard with Standard Poodle – Julie, it was her second trial, but nervousness abounded as Julie needed one more “qualifying leg” for her L1 Title and Sylvia was anxious to bump her up to Level 2 and work off-leash. Three qualifiers are needed to acquire a title in each level.
All three girls came home with their Level 1 Titles (Jenn titled both her dogs!) and I am VERY PROUD of all of them! They worked extremely hard and deserve a huge congratulations for their efforts. Dee and Molly qualified in all four rounds with the highest individual score of 200 and the highest aggregate score of our group in Level 1A.
My little Doberman girl – Jagged, performed great in spite of feeling “under the weather” with a mysterious skin ailment. She posted 2 perfect scores of 210, and very high scores in all other rounds. We were happy with those results and Jagged is now resting comfortably on a whopping dosage of Prednisone, while we wait for biopsy results from Cornell University. We’re all looking forward to the next trial in October as everyone has “caught the bug”. In the mean time, we will all get ready for agility trials in the summer months. Can’t wait!