Rally

A belated congratulations to Meigs and River, for earning their AKC Rally Excellent (RE) title back in mid-January, in 2 weekends of trials, with placements and a bonus leg.   They are now working on their RAE, which requires them to qualify ten times in both Rally Advanced and Excellent on the same day. We […]

Thistle’s new title! (updated)

Last Sunday 3/13, Thistle and Don passed their first tracking test to earn Thistle’s AKC TD (Tracking Dog) title!   The test was held by PAFTA at Coyote Creek Parkway in Morgan Hill.    Don says it was one of Thistle’s best tracks, too. Here’s the official photo with tracklayer Denise, judges Alicia Keegan and […]

Official new bowl carrier

To date, Sport has had the sole duty of cleaning up all the bowls after meals.  She takes the bowls out of their stands and brings them to me to put away.   Now that Ronan is bringing bowls to me without dropping them and causing quite the clatter, he can officially share the bowl […]

Lucy’s visit

We had the pleasure of watching Lucy for the past week, and she has been having great fun being part of our pack. Don just took this portrait of her– this is Lucy being good: And this is Lucy being bad, lying on the coffee table! (sorry for the quality– taken with my laptop in […]

Outings

Here are some photos from recent hikes/outings (at least the ones we have photos for!). On a very warm day, we hiked at Uvas Canyon (Sport, Lola, Rockie) The next two black & white photos are from our outing in Half Moon Bay, where we met Miche & Bill with Sammie and Avalon (R&T’s litter […]