More New Titles

After the Tournaments this winter the  teams have had a number of new titles!! Here they are......

From No Nonscents

Keeper and Shannon, SCENTHURDLE DOG CHAMPION
Flyte and Marsha, SCENTHURDLE DOG EXCELLENT and SCENTHURDLE DOG CHAMPION
Soleil and  Donni, SCENTHURDLE DOG EXCELLENT
Vinta and Roberta, SCENTHURDLE DOG , and SCENTHURDLE DOG EXCELLENT
Rundle, SCENTHURDLE DOG

Congratulations!!

New Title!!

Huge congratulations are going out to Roberta and Vinta for achieving their first ever title, that being SCENTHURDLE DOG !!
Way to go!!

Goodbye Bosley :'(

 WE have lost one of our own, we are beyond sad....

Bosley, ATCh Oberland Outta Bounds Bosley CD RN AGXS AXJS DDX SHDMX , was a huge presence in our little group.  He had a personality as big as he was.  He was a funny guy, he either liked you or he didn't , he had eyes only for Kim.
He always had to check out the box loader in case they were dangerous, he was particularly suspicious of Amanda lol, he liked to sniff out the entire box before picking up his own dumbbell and he moved at one speed, Bosley speed, no matter how much we yelled, he came in his own sweet time.
 If you know Kim you know Bosley was pretty much as big as she was! There she would be with his super bully stick in her hand , standing over Bosley and bopping him on the butt with the chew , like a horse racer with his horse , and off Bosley would go to fetch his dumbbell .  That was the only time we saw him move fast, when he knew Kim was waiting for him with his treat at the end.
He rarely made a mistake, was one of the most dependable dogs on the team.
Most of all Bosley was our friend, we all loved him , we will all miss him deeply , and our team just wont be the same without him.
Good Bye Bosley , we love you

4 New Titles!!!

Even though I am no longer doing stats or training my dogs right now, I am still keeping an eye on things and blogging when I can.

I happened to notice 4 new titles this time around when the points came out

Please congratulate .....

ROXY, New SCENTHURDLE DOG CHAMPION !!!!!

KEEPER, New SCENTHURDLE DOG EXCELLENT !!!!
 
LUNA, New SCENTHURDLE DOG MASTERS !!!!

BRIT, New SCENTHURDLE DOG MASTERS !!!!


Awesome , way to go you guys!!!!

Hip Hip Hurray!!!

Bosley SHDMX !!

Congratulations going out to our newest Title holder, BOSLEY earned his SCENTHURDLE MASTER EXCELLENT title at the Ready Sent Go tournament this past weekend, that is 1000 points earned!!!!!!
Well done!!!

Ready Scent Go!

Good luck to the teams heading for the tournament in Balzac tomorrow, run fast, run clean, have fun and get those titles!!

New Titles!

Congratulations are in order for 3 team members who received their SCENTHURDLE DOG MASTERS TITLE during the last Lethbridge race!!

Jethro SHDM

Big shout out to  Tina & JETHRO, Shauna & CATCH, and Roberta & KARMA !!!

Catch SHDM

Karma SHDM

Well Done Guys!!!

Lethbridge Race

Well another race is in the books and it was as usual full of Fun, Good Sportsmanship, & Cake!!!!
Thanks to Charlie for judging on his Birthday!

I managed to stay for most of the races but due to my circumstances had to make a quick exit, thank you to my teammates for covering for me , you rock!

I know No Nonscents came in 2nd overall, but who know who Full of Nonscents did??

Next race is June 20th at the Wet Creek Stables, Balzac AB, should be a great time!

Amanda is working on setting up some practices for the upcoming summer races so she will let you know when she has got a date.

As soon as I get the results I will update you on any new titles!!!

Back to Work!

Brit soars over a jump!!

Last night we had a practice after a months rest.....

Racing Dogs in Attendance.....

Pixel
Keeper
Luna
Bezzie
Roxy
Maize


Training Dogs in Attendance......

Lync
Flyte
Soleil
Rhona
Vinta
Piper
Guest, Betty/Daryll

Welcome Marsha and Flyte who drove in from Medicine Hat to train with us and is hopefully going to be able to join one of our teams!  Flyte is amazing and in just 2 lessons has this game all figured out :)

 The training dogs are coming along in leaps and bounds and they are smoking fast!! All of them, hopefully that will transfer over when they are actually racing.

See you all next week, Racing dogs, 7:30-8......Dogs in training, 8-8:30

Bad Blogger

I have been a bad blogger!! I think it's because Kort isn't racing so I forget to blog!

Tonight we have a practice after taking the month of March off, 1/2 hour for the racing dogs followed by a 1/2  hour for the dogs in training.  I have been training my own dog Lync but need to decide if I want to continue to follow through, I am doing a few other things with him.

There have been quite a few changes within the Scenthurdle Club, namely elections.  Amanda came away as President and myself as Vice President.

So after tonight I promise to be a better blogger and post our news .....

New Title!

After the races in Spruce Meadows on January 17, 2015, No Nonscents has a brand new title holder!

Huge Congratulations to PIXEL who now has her SCENTHURDLE MASTER EXCELLENT title!

Way to go Pixel!!!!!!

Changes and Congratulations

LUNA - New Scenthurdle Dog Champion

Last night in place of a training night we had a meeting.  There are some changes within the Scenthurdle club and we needed to discuss them as a group.  Most have been not finalized yet so I won't post here quite yet.
We did decide to pull out our 2 separate entries for the January race at Spruce Meadows in favour of having one blended team.

I also received the points this morning from our race in Lethbridge, and coming home with new titles are.....

Shannon & Keeper who at their very first race received their SCENTHURDLE DOG Title!!!!

Gord/Terri & Luna became SCENTHURDLE DOG CHAMPIONS !!!!


Way to go guys!

Lethbridge Dog Show

Keeper all dressed and ready for her first night of racing!

We competed at our local show last weekend and what a night it was!!   We introduced 3 new team members and each of them did amazing for their first races, congratulations to........

Shannon & Keeper new members of No Nonscents
Michelle & Bezzie new members of Full of Nonscents &
Jocelyn & Zumba also new members of Full of Nonscents.

All of you made your teammates so proud!

On a personal note, last weekend was Kort's last race.  He raced the first one without an issue, but the second one was a different story.  It became very evident once again, his back problems were painful enough that he was struggling to finish the race.  I made the extremely hard decision to pull him from the rest of the night and to retire him officially.

It was so emotional for me, Kort is one of the originals, way back when we began the new team, we all learned together and made our team the great one that it is today.
Kort and I love Scenthurdle and my heart is breaking for him.   It was one of the last things that Kort and I were able to do together.
I did however get to race Pixel in a few races and we did awesome if I do say so myself ! :)

Thank you Amanda for being there for me while I cried, I know I am always crying lol!  You are a wonderful Captain and a great friend.
Thank you to my team members that came up to me during the race with words of comfort, for I really was struggling. 

Young and New Dog Training Night

In Attendance:

Shannon/Keeper
Terri/Luna
Jocelyn/Zumba
Roberta
Jolene/Lync
Amanda/Leo
Kim/Rundle
Maureen/Rhona
Donna/Sport/Swift
Michelle/Bezzie 


The dogs that were able  to take all 4 jumps and retrieve off the box practiced just that.  The new dogs that are just learning practiced retrieving with enthusiasm and retrieving over one jump.  They also practiced taking 2 jumps in a row, fun!!  We also practiced taking the bells off of the box.   Everyone is working very hard and coming along so well, it is just an awesome group of people!

We also had the pleasure of Judy from Due South come down for some practice with Drummer and Castle, it was great to see her as always

Practice

Baby Rhona owned by Maureen is one of the pups in training :)

 Tonight's practice was for the dogs that are trained and on a team....

In Attendance:

Jolene/Kort
Amanda/Pixel/Brit
Roberta/Karma
Gord, Terri/Luna
Shannon/Keeper
Michelle/Bezzie
Jocelyn/Zumba
Judy/Kona/Mazie/Roxy
Tina/Jethro

Not too much to report, all the dogs are doing amazing, making very few mistakes.  We rock :)

Changes

 We had a busy practice on Thursday, we have many members and upcoming dogs so Amanda and Shauna have come up with a schedule to suit everyone and give each handler and dog the individual training they require as well as the space to do it in, below is the schedule.......


TRAINED TEAM DOGS- defined as dogs who are steady and don't make many mistakes, or long term team members (ie. Bosley, Karma,  Kort, Jethro, etc)

IN TRAINING TEAM DOGS- defined as dogs who are assigned to a team but still need training and proofing (ie. Zumba, Sunar, Keeper, Bezzie, Cookie, Swift,)

NEW DOGS- defined as dogs who either just started training or are putting things together. (ie. Rhona, Rundle, Lync, Jade, Maggie, Hawk etc)

If you are not sure which category your dogs fits in please ask me.

We will be alternating weeks as follows

October
16 Team practice- team and dogs in training 
23 Training Night- dogs in training and new dogs
30 Team practice- team and dogs in training

November
6 Training Night- dogs in training and new dogs
13 Team Practice- team and dogs in training
20 Training Night- dogs in training and new dogs
27 Team Practice- team and dogs in training

New Team Members :)

Last night we had a pracitice and found out what teams the new dogs were going to be on!  This is always so exciting when your hard work finally results in being able to race!

Welcome Keeper & Shannon to No Nonscents!|
Welcome Bezzie & Michelle, and Jocelyn & Zumba to Full of Nonscents!

These dogs and handlers will be racing for the first time at our Lethbridge show in November, so exciting!!

We also have some new upcoming youngsters, belonging to members, that have begun their training.  Lync, Rundle, Leo and Rhona are learning the ropes and will be on a team once they have everything figured out :)

We definitely have to arrange a photo session to update our group picture!!

The Team

Tonight our Scenthurdle group got together and went out for supper, kind of an end of the season wrap up.
We have  such a great group, we really care about each other.   We have so many new members and dogs ready to race , it is so awesome!  A few of them will be debuting at our local show in November which is very exciting.  It will be nice for them to be on home ground so to speak.
We also have a few members who are now training a second dog as well.  
Here's a picture of most of us from tonight, Amanda is missing as she was taking the picture, Gord was home sick and Shannon arrived later so she isn't in it either, but aren't we a great looking group!

July Race

Swift back in 2011, taken by Wendy Devent

Another race is in the books!  This year we didn't have the tornado so we were able to finish all of our races!
It seems to always be our two teams, No Nonscents , Full of Nonscents, Due South, and the "Fun" teams that come down from Calgary to race here.  They really are fun too!  Such a great group of people and it is so relaxed.
We were thrilled to have Swift back, she only raced one race but she was amazing!, super fast and was so happy to be playing with us again!

This year we had to worry about mosquitoes, omg they were horrible!!!! I came home looking like I had the measles! 

All that being said we have some new titles to report!!

Actually JETHRO got his SCENTHURDLE DOG CHAMPION TITLE in June but I forgot to report it, Congratulations guys!!!!!!

ROXY finished her SCENTHURDLE EXCELLENT TITLE, congratulations !!!!!!!

Next race Spruce Meadows at the end of July, with any luck it will be mosquito free :)

Lethbridge Races

As always we had a ton of fun at out races held here this past weekend, we have some new titles to be proud of!

Congratulations to.....

Brit, new SCENTHURLE DOG CHAMPION !!

Catch, new SCENTHURDLE DOG CHAMPION !!

Karma, new SCENTHURDLE  DOG CHAMPION !!

Epic, new SCENTHURDLE DOG EXCELLENT !!

Way to go guys!