Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Nell goes swimming

We packed up our stuff on Friday moring at 4am and headed down to Mooresville, NC for our weekend visit with 'da family. 6 hours later, we were at the lake, relaxing. Poor Nell... she was our source of entertainment.

I know you're going to take this life jacket off any minute now...



I'm not coming down the hill. No way!


Darn it... When I say "NO", what part of NO do you not understand?

I don't like you right now... See the death grip I have on this float?

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Congratulations Nell!

We had our first AKC Rally competition today at the Mattaponai Kennel Club Nell competed in the Rally-O Novice A class and she did wonderfully. She scored 90 out of 100! When we first got to the ring, while the Advanced class was still carrying on, I tested out her "sit" and "down"... well... she looked at me like I was telling her to cook my breakfast. She gave me the blank stare... more like, "Show me the treats first". After I worked with her and gave her TONS of treats, she remembered how to "sit" and "down".

Our first station was "Halt, sit, down, walk around dog". Of course, I was nervous and Nell knew everyone was watching, so she decided, instead of sitting, she just decided to lay down "frog style"... all spread out on the ground. Nell, that cost us -5 points! Everything else went great. We have -2 points for tight leash walk and -3 points for something we couldn't read on the judge sheet. Perhaps I was too far away from the station.

Overall, our first competition was really fun and perhaps, I will spend some weekends going to other competitions so I can at least get her jumped up to the next class. :-)
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

It's been awhile

I've abandoned Nell's blog for awhile due to busy schedule, but we're back! To recap, Nell had two weeks vacation at Aunt Mary's while we were in Japan/Singapore/Bintan Island. We had a great time, but we terribly missed Nell. She was also glad we came back safely, as her "only child" syndrome was over ruled by Aunt Mary's boston terriers.
We're now back to our routine schedule. Nell will be participating in her first AKC Rally-O trial this Saturday!
Here are some pics of our trip -- We took over 500 pictures!:

Osaka Castle:
My niece Sophia Hana:

Bintan Island resort:

Nell and Yoshi (foster dog) relaxing:

Yoshi wonders why he can't be up on the couch with Nell.