For fun

Since I haven't been going to classes or trials, all my agility this summer has been in the backyard for FUN! I have learned some obstacle focus so now when mom is actually running with me and tries to indicate the jump she wants with her motion, I sometimes veer off and take jumps on my own. Catastrophic if you are working to be on the World Team but awesome if you are just having fun and creating joy and independence! :)

Maybe I was born to be a NADAC dog?

Gotta zoom!

Ricky

My Latest Agility Game

Mom has been so lazy lately and so my new agility game makes me do all the running!

This video was taken last week some time. This week it is too hot and humid to do anything!

Gotta zoom!

Ricky

Almost Wordless Wednesday

Compare and contrast: Miley at trials and me at trials (specifically my very first one last Feb.14th):


I need some of what Miley has! LOL!

Gotta zoom!

Ricky

The Simple Things in Life

I'm just a simple dog who enjoys the simple things life has to offer me:

Happy Friday everyone! We're supposed to get our first snow of the season! I'll let you know.....

Gotta zoom!

Ricky

tRicky T-Day!

Today we watched a video kikopup made about how to train your dog to get in a purse (bag). Mom smugly thought this would be something very easy for me to learn and ambitiously set up the video camera to record our first training session! Ha! Here is the video! We apologize for the length but the original video was 13 minutes long and we got tired of editing! So when you see that it is 4.25 minutes long, thank us for cutting a lot out! :) Also two notes: 1. When training a mostly black dog, do not use a black bag and 2. When training a Sheltie, ignore kikopup's advice about throwing a treat into the bag to entice the dog in because the Sheltie will then forever think there is another piece of food in the bag no matter how many times they are told there isn't any!

Now you know what I have to deal with on a daily basis!

In other news, I did my fastest-ever-away-from-home-regulation-equipment weave poles in class last night - I was actually hopping two-footed over the base of the weaves. Mom was shocked and thrilled with my performance!

Gotta zoom!

Ricky

Playing agility

Last weekend when we were at grandpa and grandma's building the dogwalk, we took a little break and set up one jump, the chute, and six plunger weaves in the backyard to just have some fun!

Hope you all are having a great last weekend of the summer!

Gotta zoom!

Ricky

Funny photo!

Dad has been trying to get video and photos of me catching my blue squeaky ball - he will be upset that I posted this photo because it's a little out of focus, but mom thinks it is a hilarious picture and worth sharing!

Gotta zoom!

Ricky

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone!! Hope 2009 is off to a good start for you! We just got a package in the mail - it was the prize for our third place finish in Johann's Howling Howliday Giveaway! Wow - it was like Christmas all over again! We got lots of neat stuff - thank you to Johann and to all the companies who so generously donated items! We had a lot of fun participating in the contest and getting a prize to open was awesome!

Gotta zoom!

Ricky