Just some pictures

This was a picture I took of Miley after her JWW "Q". To bad the sun was in her eyes.
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I think the horses are saying, "Crazy damn dog".

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I disagree

Did you read Susan G. blog about having a special connection is a must with your dog. I really disagree with her. Not that I have any of the qualifications on dog training that she does. But I don't think you need to have a special connection when you first meet your dog. When I was looking for Miley , she wasn't the dog I wanted. I was looking at the litter and I wanted a male dog. I like male dogs. I don't know why, I just do. And I really wanted the bi-black boy out of the litter. I went out to spend a couple of days with the breeder to choose the right puppy. The bi-black and bi-blue boys were just so cute, I really wanted one of them. But I couldn't ignore what Miley was showing me. She ran everywhere. When I took each puppy outside, she was the only one to still played with toys. I still didn't know what to do. I wanted a boy. The bi-black boy was so smart and calm. But, I was sitting on the floor in the kitchen and Miley was playing. Running through the kitchen , jumping over my legs, running down, hit the busa board, round the kitchen, under the chairs and back jumping over my legs again. I couldn't ignore that. She was screaming , "pick me, pick me". So I did. And I love her. She has just now starting lying down next to me on the couch. She doesn't like to be loved on. She wants to play all the time. Isn't that why I got her? Why I choose her? Yea it bothered me for while that she didn't want to be loved on. I use to think she didn't like me,but its just her. Besides I have 2 Chihuahua's that sit on you constantly and want to be loved all the time.
Lets look at this another way. When you have a baby and the delivery didn't go to well. I cant say its love at first sight. I'm going to be blunt so you may want to stop reading. When you had forceps up your wazoo and they pulled a baby out that didn't want to come out. You have ripped to your rectum. Its not love at first sight. All I could think of was, "If someone asks me to breast feed that baby, my head is going to spin around and green pea soup is going to come flying out of my mouth". Yea I can look back now and laugh. But I wasn't a happy camper at the time. But did I love my baby . Of course. Did I feel a special connection. Uh, not at that time. But, you take care of them, love them and they love you back. Every day the love grows.
One more thing. What about people who adopt a baby. Can you imagine the adoption agency's faces if you said, "I'm sorry, I don't feel that special connection with this one. Can you bring out another?" Lol. You sometimes learn to love. Love grows.
So anyway, that what I think. Its ok not to feel a special connection. And things will still turn out great!

Beach Pictures

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The dolphins were really close to the shore. They were all jumping out of the water and chasing fish. I took lots of pictures but I was to slow. So there is a lot of pictures with just water splashing.
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Miley did it.

Miley "Q"ed her JWW run. WhooHoo! So she now has her Open Jumpers title. Now we can start playing with the big dogs.
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Next was Standard. She was again awesome. There were 3 tunnel discrimination's. She got the first 2 but the third one I was to far behind and she took the wrong one. Oops! She also missed a jump coming out of the tunnel the first time. Because of the camera angle I cant tell what I did to cause that. I think I should have been on the other side of the jump before the teeter. But it was still a great run.

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After that my legs were starting to hurt.But over all I felt much better today. I didn't stay for Fast. I didn't want to mess up what great runs we had. So we were done by 10am and got to walk the dog on the beach. It was pretty cold this morning, 47degrees. But once the sun came out, it didnt feel bad at all. Ill post some beach pictures tomorrow.

You know that saying...

"Great dog, shame about the handler" ? That was me today. I would first like to say, she did the weaves in both JWW and Standard. That's huge for us. Next, we got the correct tunnel entrance in both JWW and standard. WhooHoo. But no "Q"'s.

First was our Open Fast run. Ah, we had some handler problems but I still feel like it was a good run.
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Next was Open JWW. It was taking forever to get started. I was waiting to run and they were calling the walk thur for Open Standard. The jumpers ring was far behind. There was a new judge with an AKC rep. there. I think that was slowing things down. So I gave Lou Miley, and went and walked Open Standard. But now I was stressed. I walked it a couple of times and went to run my jumpers course.It was kinda a tough course. I was unsure how to handle the pinwheel into the weaves. I really wanted to make sure I drove her to the correct tunnel entrance. But when she came out , she couldn't see me. I should have been on the other side of the jumps. So she went off course and I just went with it. Your dog shouldn't have to look for you coming out of the tunnel.
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After I was done running they called the briefing for Standard. I went over and they decided they wouldn't start until JWW was done. Ugh! I wish I had known that. I did get to walk again.
She missed the teeter and I thought I would just send her to the table. I don't know if she knew she missed the teeter but she did a touch and go on the table and got the zoomies. But when I called her to my side, she came right in. Then got on the table.I wasn't sure how to handle the pinwheel after the a-frame. I was planning on getting in front of her and then front crossing into the pinwheel. But she didn't wait to be released from her 20/20. So that got a little messed up.
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Things I need to work on. Rear crossing into a pinwheel. She isn't taking the 2nd jump of the pinwheel. I'm not sure how to fix that. Also I need to work on post turns. She doesn't seem to read them very well.


They had a B-match after the trial but I was just hurting to much to stay. Several people came up to me and asked if I was staying for the b-match. When I said no, they were like , "really?" Hmmm think they were trying to tell me something? Lol I probably did need to stay and work Miley but I just wanted to leave. I messed up taking my medicine. I usually go to a trial, check in, get my stickers and course maps. If they are walking or close to walking, I walk. Then when I'm done, I go take my medicine to ward off the pain. But I didn't do that today. I'm not sure why. So I didn't take it until right before my standard run. Well I was miserable by then. I wont make that mistake tomorrow.

It didn't rain but it was dark all day. We did get to the beach a few times. Miley isn't tired and she is driving me crazy. We have thrown the ball down the beach a zillion times.
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Pictures

"Look mom , no feet!"

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Isnt she just so happy!



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Off we go to the next trial. The only thing we practiced was some weave pole entries on Tuesday because of all the rain. Should be interesting.

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