The most guilty dog ever

This is SO Denver :)

And The Winner Is.....

We had a great show weekend. Denver finished his Altered Championship with one win on Friday and one on Saturday. Ike won Winners Dog and Best of Winners on Sunday for two more points towards his championship. Such good boys :0) Now... on to agility in a few more weeks. We're having such fun !!

Happy Birthday Lucas

We had a fun day at Lucas' fourth birthday party on Saturday. He invited lots of friends from his preschool class, old friends and cousins. Josh (cake boss) made an awesome construction site cake... all chocolate... including little vehicles, chocolate covered raisins and mini peanut butter cups.... YUM. After a couple of hours of playing games and opening presents all the kids went home and the cousins and adults continued the party with pizza and drinks until all the kids were ready for bed. Hope you had a happy and fun fourth birthday Lucas... we did :)

Can't Wait!!

It's been so hard to get outside lately. We've had lots of rainy days, the snow is melting and it's hard to walk with snowshoes or without them. Everything looks brown and dirty. I gaze at this picture and think "it can't come soon enough". I'm itching to get outside and do some agility and so are the dogs :) THINK SPRING!!

Ike's First Agility

Not bad for Ike's first attempt at an agility course :)

Grandkids

It's always fun when the kids come to visit.... we play games, go outdoors, play Legos, read, bake and just hang out together. Trevor also teaches us about his latest electronic gadgets in this ever changing world:)

High Goal Agility

This weekend we competed in an agility trial in Greenwich, NY at High Goal Farm. It was held in a huge building that was built for the sole purpose of agility practice, classes and trials.... very nice venue. We stayed in a little "pet friendly" motel with 10 rooms that was occupied solely with people at the trial and their dogs. Tucker had the most success with the most qualifying runs for the weekend. Denver had a couple of nice qualifying jumpers runs. It was Ike's first real competition trial in Novice and he had two qualifying runs... we still have work to do, though, to keep his head in the game. But, I was happy with his first endeavor.
Sunday we met a girl from the NY rescue group with a 8 month old puppy that we were helping transport to my friend Lisa who does rescue in Maine . He had a rough start to life being purchased at a pet store by a women for her autistic son. The child really pummeled this puppy so he was placed with another family. They had kids and the dog became understandably wary of the kids so he is going into rescue to be fostered for a while to work thru his issues. He stayed here overnight on Sunday and seemed to get along with most everyone except Kyra (which is not a surprise). I drove him to Portsmouth yesterday afternoon to meet Lisa who drove down from Lewiston. It's so sad when people buy cute puppies from pet store without researching the breed and then bail on them when they don't work out. But, hopefully, this little guy will get a second chance and a "forever home".