Results from our first Rally trial (*3 pics and a video*)

[.sarah]

Thanks everyone I'm proud of her. I'm actually heading out in a minute to get supplies to make a display board for all of our ribbons and awards (only four so far, but hopefully more to come ).

Is that AKC rally? It looks alot like CKC rally, which I'm hoping to start soon. We're doing CARO rally right now which is very hard, the courses are all over the place rather than in straight lines. Hopefully my guys will Q like Nova did! Pretty rosette, too! Love the green.

Yep, it's AKC. I know CKC is using the rules and stuff from AKC, so they are probably very similar. What is CARO?

We decided to forgo the dock dogs competition because I'd rather save the gas money, hotel money, and entry fees for a show where we could earn titles (selfish, I know ). Also, it isn't actually dock dogs that's putting it on, it's Ultimate Air Dogs, and I want to stick to dock dogs if I'm going to travel 3+ hours for an event. Dock Dogs should be coming back our way in a few months. Until then I've got obedience, rally, and conformation shows coming up. Actually, I decided to drive 3 hours north this Sunday for a UKC conformation show. It will be Buck and I's first conformation show. Then in March we have an AKC rally show, then a UKC obedience show for both Buck and Nova. And then a show in April and one in May as well, but I'm not positive yet if I'm going to those.

It seems like lots of us were out this weekend showing our dogs. My shameless brag for the weekend is from a NADAC show. Aslan (sheltie) got three new titles (EJC, OCC and TG-N). He got eight qualifying ribbons and seven first place ribbons. Jericho (sheltie), my mostly deaf boy, was entered in a few runs. He's just starting out again after a two a dn a half year break. He didn't qualify, but he had some great runs and earned second and third place ribbons. We came home with 20 ribbons!! You get a lot of runs in NADAC!!

Wow, congrats!! That's very cool. This was my first show ever (unless if you count Dock Dogs and a small match I entered), but I've got quite a few coming up. My dad complains about the money but my mom and I always say that I could be out partying and doing drugs like most of my friends my age. He prefers this instead, of course!

Congratulations to you and Nova! She looks very proud of herself. I watched the video, very cool, that looks like something Nebo could do, I think I'll try to see if they have anything like that around here.

If he knows basic obedience then I'm sure he could do it. You can download the signs and explinations of the signs that are used in rally on the AKC website. You can look for shows on the AKC site, or go to infodog.com or onofrio.com.

[wolfsoul]

What is CARO?

It's the Canadian Association of Rally-Obedience. It's different than CKC or AKC because past the novice level it has alot more agility combined into it. I think it's also harder but I've only seen a couple videos of CKC rally, and your's is the first I've seen on AKC.