Still Here!

Scenthurdle is hard work! We must keep up our strength with doughnuts!!

Attending...

Jolene/Kort
Amanda/Pixel/Brit
Kim/Bosley
Donna/Epic/Sport/Swift
Judy/Roxy
Gord, Terri/Luna


We are still around even though there hasn't been any blog posts lately !!!

We decided to take the month of March off, a well deserved rest for all the dogs and handlers.  The newbies still practiced however and it is so exciting to see these new comers improving so quickly.  We also have 3 lovely young junior handlers who are super sweet girls and their dogs are doing fantastic!  There is just something special about kids and dogs isn't there ?

We had a practice last night and as usual the regular dogs ran extremely well, I got to run Pixel which was super fun!  She was a good girl and raced for me even though Amanda was racing against us, with Brit, on the other team.  This will come in very handy in future races! 

Some exciting news is that we have ordered a brand new set of jumps!! When we have races here we have had to have other teams bring their jumps as we did not have two regulations sets, now we will , yippee!

We also all bought new hoodies for the team! Some have red ones, some have black, but we look really great in them! I love team sports!

Practice

Kort and Swift at our very first set of races ever! Red Deer AB

In attendance:

Jolene/Kort
Judy/Maize/Roxy/Kona
Shauna/Catch
Amanda/Pixel
Kim/Bosley
Tina/Jethro
Gord, Terri/Luna
Donna/Swift/Sport


We had discussion at the beginning. The newbies are coming along awesome with many of them more then likely ready to race this year!!

We decided that since we will not be in any races until June, we will take the month of March off for a needed rest for the dogs.  The newbies will still be practicing each week and we can come join them or work on our own on specific items.  Amanda will need 2 members to help out each week with the newbies.

We will be ordering a second set of jumps, hurray! That way we won't need to have other teams bring theirs when traveling here to compete.

We are getting hoodies!!! We are going to look smashing!

Practice was short and sweet with very few mistakes.

I will let everyone know when the hoodies have arrived :)

Enjoy the month off!!!!!

February 15 2014

Today we traveled to Calgary for another Independent tournament, man we love these!! We were done the day at 3 pm! So much better then 11:30 pm !!

As usual we all had a wonderful time, full of laughs and many yummy doughnuts!  We were at a new venue called Bow Dogs, they made up cute little thank you bags for each of us to take home, so awesome!

Full of Nonscents rocked and came in 2nd place over all!!! No Nonscents had a few extra bobbles & came in 4th.

We  have some new titles to announce as well!!
Congratulations to Judy, she put new titles on both of her dogs today!!

Maize~ new SCENTHURDLE DOG CHAMPION !
Roxy~ new SCENTHURDLE DOG !
Congratulations!!


Remember there will be no practice next week, all the dogs need a rest, they've earned it!

Goodbye Crawford :(

Today our teammate Crawford crossed over the Rainbow Bridge with his best friend Maureen by his side.

Crawford even made the front page of our newspaper!

Out hearts all ache with sadness for Maureen.  Crawford was such an enthusiastic, charismatic, little guy.  His constant barking , while deafening at times, will be sorely missed by us all.  It won't be the same without Crawford grunting his way over every jump as fast as his little legs could carry him.

He is without pain now Maureen, you can try to take some comfort in that.

We are so sorry...

New Titles!!!!

Back row, L-R  Maizie, Karma, Kort, Bosley ...Front Row, L-R Pixel, Catch, Crawford, Jethro, Luna

The points are in, the results are official!

Congratulations to the following dogs and their new titles!!.......

FULL OF NONSCENTS

Luna- SCENTHURDLE DOG
Catch- SCENTHURDLE DOG EXCELLENT


NO NONSCENTS

Jethro- SCENTHURDLE DOG EXCELLENT
Bosley- SCENTHURDLE DOG MASTERS
Pixel- SCENTHURDLE DOG MASTERS
Kort- SCENTHURDLE DOG MASTERS


Congratulations to all, you should be very proud!

Thursday Practice

Handsome Epic

Great practice last night.
We started the night with the newbies in training, they worked on their dumbbell retrieves, discrimination, & taking the dumbbell off the box, these up & comers are doing fabulously & will no doubt be competing before too long!

In Attendance:

Jolene/Kort
Amanda
Kim/Bosley
Judy/Roxy/Maizie
Donna/Epic
Shauna/Catch
Tina/Jethro
Terri,Gord/Luna
Roberta

We talked about rules & how we all need to read them!  Amanda says there will be a test so we better bone up lol!  I myself have read them many times, I never remember them, but I've read them!
At our last race we had a couple of near misses with almost stepping over the line , letting our dogs go early, & not sure of who is responsible for retrieving a dropped dumbbell.  All these things are stuff we should know by now, we are loosing so many points by silly mistakes.
We promise to do better Amanda!!

We discussed which races we could attend this year as well.
I have to say that our team is so awesome, such great sports & we all just mesh together so well.

See you next Thursday, 7:30

AKC Show

Well the first race of the new year is in the books & what a marathon night it was!

We started racing about 6pm & finished at 11:30pm !! The dogs were all troopers, some of them getting slower near the end of the night ( Kort ), some getting faster ( Jethro ) !!  We all missed Crawford & his crazy barking, as Tina said, it was strangely quiet at times :(

We had tons of laughs, Scenthurdle is the only dog sport I compete in where everyone , & I mean everyone, are good sports, supportive of their own teammates as well as other teammates.  It makes for a fun fun night!

For example, we had the girls that would hold up box numbers to rate our performances, so funny, we had fun photo opportunities with Judy being a great sport when this picture was taken of her :)

I was hoping to post all the new titles that were awarded, but the points have yet to come in to make it official, so I will do that in another post, for now enjoy a couple of videos from the night :)