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Tip Tail - From Agility to Zen
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We Are Back from CO
2008-05-12 19:21:00
Well, Chase , Tatum and I are back from doing USDAA in Colorado. I’ll post more about it later and get some pictures up after I get them off the camera. USDAA is complicated but I’m starting to figure it out, and will understand more as I go up in the levels. Tatum got pretty stressed and ...
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Goin? to Colorado for USDAA
2008-05-08 20:25:00
Well, bright and early tomorrow morning, Friday May 9th, I’m going to be on the way to Colorado , Brighton to be exact, for a USDAA trial. I’m being picked up at about 5:15 am. Ugh. I do not like early! The driver wants to be there before business closes on Friday so ...
More About: Agility , Goin

What Is Qassia?
2008-05-07 23:48:00
Well, it appears to be a site based one, what they call, ‘Intel’. Intel, aside from being short for Intelligence, seems to be their what they call articles of interest. Or articles people write that may be interesting and informative. It’s kinda like Wikipedia and Squidoo, but a bit different. People rate your articles… ...
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WW - Can?t Stop Playing
2008-05-07 19:01:00
Wordless Wednesday May 7 2008 Muffit and Tatum love to play. Sometimes Tatum overdoes it and Muffit wants to go hide, though… But if Muffit hides in the crate, Tatum just follows him in! Give that girl a cigarette! Tags: Meme , Muffit, Play , Tatum
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Got Hurt Doing Agility?
2008-05-07 01:18:00
I haven’t blogged about my sprained ankle in a while.. I sprained it last year, and made it worse back in October 2007 at an agility trial. It was so bad I couldn’t walk on it for a couple of days. No, interestingly enough, my husband has a sprained ankle, he did it when we ...
More About: Info , Hurt , Agility

Crate Games!
2008-05-07 00:28:00
Just another agility picture from the trial. It’s a bit dark, but it’s a very cute cocker spaniel, don’t you think? I wanted to blog a bit about Susan Garrett’s Crate Games . A friend of mine bought the DVD last weekend and I must admit, I’m impressed. She was not so impressed. But ...
More About: Training , Tatum

Agility Makes me Burn
2008-05-07 00:19:00
Hehe, I have to laugh at my own title. Well, it’s true, when I’m out in the sun at agility trials my face tends to sunburn. So do my hands, arms, and the part in my hair. I guess I need a shampoo that contains sunscreen for my hair, does one exist? ...
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Sunday Agility with Levi
2008-05-05 01:55:00
Well we had fun at agility again today. This is a picture of a Boston Terrier that I caught in the Tire. I actually brought my camera with and sat and took quite a few pictures. It was fun. You can see the rest of them on my flickr set if you are ...
More About: Sunday , Levi , Agility

Answering Services for the Dogs
2008-05-05 01:48:00
I have been known to do the occasional collie rescue here in Utah. I do love the collies, and have four of my own. All smoothies. And when I was more involved in rescue, I thought it’d be great to have an Answering Service that would help take calls for when people call and ...
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Levi?s Agility Runs Today
2008-05-04 03:17:00
Here is Levi ’s first agility run from today. It’s his Excellent B Preferred Jumpers with Weaves run. My collie boy has such a good time doing agility… even thought he’s eight, he’s still having a good time. This is his clean run and I’m so very proud he got the weaves! As you can ...
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A Day at Agility Makes Tired Dogs
2008-05-04 02:31:00
Well, I took three dogs to agility today. Levi , who ran two runs and did great! I’ll get a video of him posted after I rip it off my DVD camcorder and upload it to YouTube. I was very proud of him. He did great both runs today and weaved on his Jumpers ...
More About: Dogs , Agility , Tatum , Tired

Updated my Pack Pages
2008-05-03 16:11:00
I updated the dog pages this week…. put up photos from Flickr and updated their stories. So now they are all accurate and they look much better. I’ve been meaning to do this since the beginning of this blog.. which has been years now, I think I started blogging in 2004? Maybe 2005? Wow. Long ...
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Trying this Control Unleashed Thing on Muffit
2008-05-01 16:36:00
So the new big hit in the dog sport, behavior, and training world is Control Unleashed by Leslie McDevitt. It’s a book, and the author has also been doing seminars around the country. She is coming here to Salt Lake City, Utah, in October of this year. She started her program by teaching ...
More About: Training , Thing , Clicker

Making The Bed Is Hard
2008-05-01 03:20:00
Sometimes making the bed is just a hard thing to do. Especially with these three helpers. They mean well… okay, they mean to play. But they are sweet and very much fun, they make bed making quite exciting! With these three helpers I sure don’t need any alcohol rehab to ...
More About: Play , Hard , Chase , Tatum

Wordless Wednesday - Collie Playing Fetch
2008-04-30 17:06:00
This is Levi , he doesn’t usually play fetch, but he will for his Mum since he’s a big old goofy Mama’s boy! He’s a smooth collie, not sure if collies usually play fetch, but mine don’t! Wordless Wednesday Tags: Levi, Meme
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Computer Forensics for Dogs?
2008-04-30 16:52:00
As you know by my prior post about Loving another Species, you’ll know I hold the life of a dog in as high a regard as the life as a human. It’s pretty sad that most of the world does not… yet. When I watch cop shows, the ones that deal a lot with ...
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Loving Another Species
2008-04-29 15:01:00
I’ve been thinking the last little while about loving my dogs… and how I love them just as much as any human I know. I had a hard time admitting that my dogs come first, until the girl who does my nails told me that she told her boyfriend, in no uncertain terms, that her dogs come first and always will, and if he can’t accept that then he can’t accept her. I respect her for that and it helped me to admit it to myself, too. (oh and yup, this is Levi playing fetch.. lol, he does it for me, he’s such a sweet boy. Collies do play fetch!) On another, related note, I’m vegetarian. I don’t feel like I can justify killing another living being in order to survive. There are so many options now that I can live quite happily and healthily without taking another creature’s life. If it came down to it and I was lost in the woods, and it was me or another animal, sure, I’d kill to survive. I would have not qualms about that. I can cut into ...
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Better on Sunday
2008-04-28 21:31:00
Well Sunday was a much better day. It brings new meaning to making life comfortable for one’s self. However, I didn’t really need to. The weather, which I have no control over, was better so I wasn’t freezing and wind blown. I’d gotten a good night sleep, and drugged up on Ibuprophin and so my back felt better, too. Chase would have Q’d in Jumpers but I lost my way after about 8 jumps, and he took an off course. The run felt really good, though, which is very nice. I had a friend run him in Standard, which was fun to watch. And then he did Q in Snooker! Yay. Our only Q this weekend. But you know, Saturday doesn’t even count as an agility day, it was so darn miserable. Some people told me they thought I wasn’t going to come back Sunday! But I got right back up on that horse and was better. I brought my collie boy Levi with, too. And he cheers me up as well. He got to run in the fields with Tatum, Chase, and our friends dogs. I hope to get...

What to Wear to Agility
2008-04-28 21:26:00
Saturday to agility I wore every darn piece of clothing I’d brought which, apparently, was not enough. T-Shirt, Sweatshirt, and two coats. But not my winter coat, just a rain coat. Plus my baseball cap. And as I was sitting trying to keep warm, I had a towel over me too that I had brought to cover the dogs’ crates so they wouldn’t see so much and keep them from barking. Anyway… I love to wear comfortable clothes when I do agility. usually I just wear jeans, but they can be a bit uncomfortable. So maybe I should wear some dickies scrubs instead! Scrubs are comfortable and they can be so pretty now, lol. I wonder if they have any with dog patterns, I’ll go and check it out. They also have cherokee medical scrubs. Some of the scrubs are quite pretty and colorful, and short sleeved, and loose fitting so would be every so comfortable! So these cherokee medical scrubs would be nice to wear, too… seriously, I think I’m going to check them out...
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The Worst Agility Day Ever
2008-04-27 14:37:00
Oh my gosh, yesterday at the USDAA trial, was the worst agility day ever. It was windy.. and I hate wind. It was one of those cold biting winds that feels like winter, which sucked. And dust was kicked up all over and so my gas permeable contacts hurt and my eyes got nice and ...
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Verve Earth
2008-04-25 16:42:00
I found a fun new blog thing to do! Yeah I know.. I’m finding a lot. But this one looks pretty neat. It’s called Verve Earth . You can go in and map your blog location, put in a little description of your blog, and find other blogs nearby you. Or in other places of ...
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Trying Scribefire
2008-04-25 03:55:00
Hrm… since I upgraded to Wordpress 2.5, My flickr plugin no longer works. I haven’t checked to see if there is a new version or not. But I really do wish I could get a nice flickr plugin… why you may ask? Oh… not noticing all these recent images I’ve been posting? LOL. Anyway… so ...

USDAA and Chase
2008-04-25 01:14:00
This weekend I have entered Chase into a USDAA agility trial. I have taken him before… just once, if I remember correctly, and he does have one Snooker leg and one, I think, Standard leg. I have to look it up on the USDAA site again. Should be fun. It’s outdoors, and so it might ...
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