Long-Dangerous Tails

Attached is a pictures of the pretty ribbons Lance earned in Canada. We did 4 classes and earned our Canada Novice Rally title and then moved up to Advance and earned one leg there. All legs were earned with 1st placements – as the picture shows. He was a good boy especially since it was hot, hot, hot, and in a fairground building with no a/c. And, it’s our first Canada title…yeah!

Laura and Mr. Lance

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Photos from the CPE Agility Trial at Taking the Lead Dog Training. Summer and Monica cooling off their canine companions. Monica with Alta-Tollhaus Heike.

Kim LaSerra and her agility dog, Alta-Tollhaus Bogey

Monica and Alta-Tollhaus Heike

Gretta, a rescue GSD

Kim and Bogey

Kari’s Alta-Tollhaus Perfect Storm “Hurri”

Kim and Bogey

Monica and Summer

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Wed. night I met up with Joe & Becky, and Al, Karen, & David to do some mock-BHs for Nikon and Schumi.  We also had Sabree, Coke, and Chopper (Kenya) in attendance for added distraction and practice reporting in.  Schumi came in ready to start his long down so I got Chopper out and I daresay she did better than Nikon!  I haven’t done too much with her lately, she lived with my sister for a while and I backed off her training trying to let an old problem with her foot heal (she had an infected sliver almost 3 years ago but developed a habit of chewing on that foot and it never really healed).  She does have the FO and P1/OB1 titles which use the same heeling pattern and out of motion as the Schutzhund routine (plus additional “practical” exercises) but she showed some great enthusiasm despite the heat and humidity.  I also did a few “puppy” tracks with her a while back for fun and she did good with the hunt drive and methodically checking footsteps so I may take her out for tracking if our field ever gets mowed.

Chopper’s mother was Julie’s Dastra who has more titles than I can remember.  Her father was Barb’s Narro von der Kine, a working line dog from Germany who I’m told was quite stellar, I believe scored perfect 100 points in multiple phases.  I would have like to have known Narro and watched him work.
Chopper’s sons Bogey and Lance are agility prodigies and Lance also has conformation, rally, and tracking titles (probably more!).

What I love most about Chopper is her absolute devotion to her person.  I think it is rare to find a dog that works solely for the affirmation from their person but Chopper is that dog.  When we are training she is not working for food or toys rewards or getting lured or physically corrected, she simply works to be with me (or Julie, or my sister) and for praise, pats on the back, and the “ok, up!” game where I spank at her back and she jumps at my face and flips off my chest (you know what I mean if you’ve seen this!).  Chopper has never once failed or NQ’d anything we have tried, I don’t think she’s ever even missed a contact or knocked a bar in agility training.

Al was asking me if she has any titles and I’m not sure if I answered.  Her full name is UCH Alta-Tollhaus-Krieger Lamb Chop OB1 FO RA CL1-R CL1-F HIT TT TDI CGC.  That breaks down to:

• UCH – UKC Champion (conformation – have to earn 100 points min and beat other dogs three times under different judges.  This title is credited to Julie)
• OB1 – This is the obedience portion of the SDA/Dog Sport Protection 1 title
• FO – Family Obedience, basically a Dog Sport BH
• RA – Rally Advanced (she also has the Rally Novice title but you list the highest title, she also has one of three legs towards Rally Excellent)
• CL1-R, CL1-F – These are CPE agility titles for standard runs and jumpers/fullhouse combo
• HIT – Herding Instinct Test passed under AHBA judge Kelly Malone
• TT – American Temperament Test Society’s “Temperament Test” passed under DVG/SchH trainer AJ Slaughter
• TDI – therapy dog test that allows the dog and handler team to be registered and receive insurance
• CGC – AKC Canine Good Citizen

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Congratulations to Margot and Gracie on earning their CGC! (XBox – Funny)

Alta-Tollhaus Billie and Bailey, both have earned an SG rating at a show in Germany. (Markus Status Quo – Kira)

Kim and Bogey have earned another double “Q” in agility.  That MACH title is getting closer all the time. (Vando – Chopper)

There might be a few more brags this weekend…we will see…. 

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I’ve attached a picture Bill took today of Lance and I (he’s not as good as you all are with photographs).   But, the picture is of us with our groups of ribbons (4 first and 4 qualifying) that we’ve earned at our last 2 rally shows.    Two from the Kalamazoo Kennel Club a while back and two this weekend at the Kalamazoo Cluster at the fairgrounds.   Three of them represents our latest title RA (Rally Advance) and the fourth is his first leg in Excellent.   All legs earned with first placements – he’s a good boy.

You also wanted to know his latest “name” string with all his titles.   So, here it is – this latest title puts us at 41 titles.   Whew!   Busy, but what fun.

U-CH, U-AgII U-RO1, Alta-Tollhaus Par Four (Lance), TD, AX, AXJ, NAP, NJP, OF, RA, CTL1, CL2, NAC, NCC, TN-N, TG-N, WV-N, CSL1-F, CSL1-H, CSL1-S, RS-N, JS-N, GS-N, mHIC,  OFA Hips (Normal) + Elbows (Excellent).

Enjoy – have fun with the pups.

Laura and Mr. Lance

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