*ok, Breath kaite!*

[iceyshiver21]

ok....Annie's has a dog show tommorow and we have been training SOOO hard all year. I'm sooooo nervous because this year she has to do everything off leash! She's a novice and that's alot to cover for a two year old doggie and only two years of training.

Just so everyone knows heres the 4-H levels of dog obedience-

Beg. A
Beg. B
Graduate Beg.
Novice
Graduate Novice
Pre-Open
Open
and then there's four dog team, utility, and brace.

Well since I went through Beginer A and Beg B, with odie, I couldn't take Annie in those classes, so when Annie was 6 months old she went against Graduate Beg. dogs, who had about three years of training and got CHAMPION!! So now I'm hoping we can do that again. Wish us luck!!

[magcpen]

Good luck!

[tatsxxx11]

Wow, that's quite impressive!! You two have put in a lot of work! Annie sounds like a very smart girl! I have a feeling she's going to do great!! Good luck to you both! Make sure you keep us updated! GO ANNIE!!

[pitc9]

Best of luck!!!

[Foam]

Wow! What a good trainer. What kind of dog is she?
Good Luck, Annie!!

[iceyshiver21]

Annie is a Basset/ Newfoundland mix. Quite a mix for alil pup. Thanks everyone..

[micki76]

Best of luck to you both! What fun!
GO ANNIE!! GO ANNIE!! GO ANNIE!!

[KYS]

I'm rooting for you as one of your biggest fans.
Your hard work has already paid off,
and you and Annie are already winners,
just by having enough confidence to enter/compete.

You go girl!!! can't wait till tomarrow.

[Dogz]

GOOD LUCK ANNIE!!!
We wish the best of luck to you girl! You sure sound like a smart girl, so show 'em what you got!

[lovemyshiba]

Good luck Katie--I know you've done a lot of work with her, I'm sure you and Annie will be wonderful!!!!

Good luck Annie

[cloverfdx]

GOODLUCK for the show/comp/trial, sure you will both do just fine

you guys have alot of different classes to what we have here.we have.

Encouragement, which is all heel on lead, stand free, sit stay 1 min, down stay 3 min. stand for examination. once you get one pass in that class you go onto novice (clover and i are doing novice at the moment)

Novice: heel pattern on lead then off lead, recall, same stays as encouragement, stand free,stand for examination. you need three passes in novice with atleast 2 different judges to get the CD title (companion dog)

Open: heel pattern off lead, retrieve dumbell on flat and directed jumping,drop on recall, and out of sight stays ~shudders~ we will never get through open as clover HATES the dumbell. three passes with atleat two different judges (CDX title)

then the higest level is Utility: all hand signals no voice for a part of it, seek back(find a scented object in the ring), go out to the box (dog is sent out to a box) (4 peices of dowel laid on the ground in the form of a box) the dog must turn around in the box and sit. directed jumping. all of the fun stuff that clove and i will never get to do because of her phobia of the dumbell

well i hope everything goes well for you and once again GOODLUCK

oh and have you got any photos of Annie im sure everyone would love to see them.

[iceyshiver21]

Me and ANNIE!! WE ROCK!!

Figure 8 Excersise

Good Girl ANNIE!! Doin' those long sits!

AND THOSE LONG DOWNS!!

This is Amanda my neighbor and her daushound Teddy

My brother and Annie's Brother Niffer

And Steph the one who made it all possible single handedly.

Here's the rest of them!
http://www.imagestation.com/album/?i...ulation_page=Y

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Oh hey almost forgot!! I got Reserve Champion and a Blue in Novice Obediance!!

[KYS]

I am so proud of you and Annie. YOu both did GREAT!!!
(Than of course I new you both would!)

[Cookiebaker]

Wow! That's super! Good girl, Annie!! Congratulations!!