February turned out to be a fantastic month for Winger and Waverly! Winger earned his Open Jumpers with Weaves Preferred title and is now just one Q away from his Open Agility Preferred title.

Happy birthday to me! Waverly earned the last Qs needed for her Novice Agility and Novice Jumpers with Weaves titles today at th K9X-press agility trial at DePaw Dog Sports.

Winger earned his first Open Standard Preferred Q today at the Austin Golden Retriever Club agility trial! He also earned another Novice JWW Preferred Q.

Winger earned his Novice Agility Preferred title under judge Heather Dickinson this weekend at DePaw Dog Sports in Leander, TX. This title has been 2 years in the making and I am excited to say Winger is finally starting to be able to work in arousal and keep his jump bars up. Waverly picked up another Q in Novice Standard on Friday, so she is now one Q away from her Novice titles in both Standard and Jumpers with Weaves.

This past weekend, Waverly and Winger competed in the Capitol Dog Training Club of Austin agility trial. Waverly did extremely well in her second trial ever and picked up 2 Qs in Novice JWW and 1 Q in Novice Standard. Her Standard run on Sunday would have been a Q, but she kept getting distracted by a bar setter that was sitting directly in line with the weaves and was leaning forward with her elbows on her knees. Waverly was intrigued and popped out of the weaves 3 times to

This weekend Ayla made her AKC Scent Work trial debut in Novice and Waverly made her Advanced debut since finishing her SWN at the GRCA National Specialty in September. On Saturday, Ayla was scared to go into most of the search areas, but managed to pick up a Q and third place in Novice Buried. Waverly decided Buried and Container were not for her, but Q'd in Advanced Interior and Advanced Exterior. On Sunday, Ayla was much more comfortable and qualified in ALL her searches!

Winger and I traveled to Wilmington, Ohio to compete in the first ever AKC Scent Work Master National! Unfortunately, no photos or video were allowed of the competition. The first two days were an elimination round where the dogs completed Container, Buried, Interior, and Exterior searches to accrue points based on number of hides found plus negative points for false alerts, faults, and zero points for NQ-able offenses (destroying a container, eliminating in a search area, et

We hit the road to Purina Farms for our second GRCA National Specialty! Winger competed in the Junior Hunt test, WC, scent work, and agility. Waverly got to compete at her first specialty in scent work and agility. Winger passed his Junior Hunt test and WC with flying colors! He went 3/5 qualifying scores in scent work, and had some really amazing moments in agility with Premier JWW and Premier Standard runs that were so close to Qs. Waverly had a spectacular day at the scent

Winger earned his Fetch Advanced title today!

Waverly attended her second AKC Scent Work trial and competed in all four elements on Saturday and Sunday. This time she went 8/8 Qs! She completed her Novice Buried, Novice Exterior, and Novice Container titles. She also earned two Novice Interior Qs putting her only one Q away from her overall Novice title! The cherry on top was finding out she went Novice High In Trial on Sunday! She is now: Geronimo's Heart In The Highlands CGC TKN FTN SCN SBN SEN

Waverly competed in her very first scent work trial this weekend! She qualified of 5/6 runs and placed in three of them. After the judge's briefing on Friday, I got her out of the crate to potty and discovered she had a bee sting! Her poor snoot was swollen to twice it's size! I didn't have any antihistamines in my first aid kit, but luckily we were able to find a fellow competitor with some. Waverly ran Novice Containers with a puffy face and managed to Q! By the afternoon,