Woo HOOOOO! I am now the DOG OF THE WEEK!!!! I would like to thank all my friends and fans and even those who might not be friends or fans, but who voted for me!!! See http://www.adogspurpose.com/
Saturday, June 26, 2010
We DID IT!!!
Woo HOOOOO! I am now the DOG OF THE WEEK!!!! I would like to thank all my friends and fans and even those who might not be friends or fans, but who voted for me!!! See http://www.adogspurpose.com/
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Dog of the Week - Update
I am now in the lead for Dog of the Week! I didn't know I had so many friends! Thanks!
Anyway, I just wanted to thank Staring at Strangers for their support.
Pretty funny stuff!
Jazzy
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Dog of the Week
I (Jazzy) am in the running for dog of the week. Mom picked an OLD photo of me that she really likes; I think it looks sorta dorky, but I guess that if it means I can win, it is okay. So, I guess I am asking you to vote for me.
If I win, Mom gets a book and we get $65 donated to our favorite dog charity. I figure that if Peabody can raise money for poodles by getting his hair cut, I can raise money by being an online celebrity. Anyway, if you want to vote, go to a dogs purpose.
And remember -- I'm a 5 star girl!!!!!
Jazzy
(Mom said you can vote every day, but that with all my friends and fans, it shouldn't take too long to pull to the front of the pack!)
If I win, Mom gets a book and we get $65 donated to our favorite dog charity. I figure that if Peabody can raise money for poodles by getting his hair cut, I can raise money by being an online celebrity. Anyway, if you want to vote, go to a dogs purpose.
And remember -- I'm a 5 star girl!!!!!
Jazzy
(Mom said you can vote every day, but that with all my friends and fans, it shouldn't take too long to pull to the front of the pack!)
Zippy now has her CGC
Zippy got her CGC yesterday. That stands for "Canine Good Citizen" and tests stuff like walking thru a crowd, responding to noises, doing a recall, and stuff like that. :-) Zippy said that the CGC crew were very complementary about her. The last exercise is one where the dog has to stay with someone else while the handler goes out of sight. When mom left her, she stood for a while (on a loose lead), then finally she sat, and then she laid down. When mom came back, they said, What a GOOD dog she is! So mom gave her extra cookies.
Anyway, we were at a show n go, and Zippy also got to do jility, rally and bedience. The judge gave lots of extra halt commands when Zippy was doing novice bedience, cause mom asked him to (Zippy was convinced that she wasn't supposed to sit in the ring, cause of all the conformation stuff), and she did start to do automatic sits when she and mom stopped, so mom was pleased.
Well, FINALLY, I got my turn to do both open obedience and utility. First I did sits and downs. Mom was very happy that I stayed sitting for the full 3 minutes that she was out of sight. But then we waited and waited out in the sun until it was our turn to go into the open obedience ring. I admit, I was hot and tired and crabby by the time I got in the ring, so I didn't do a very good job. So mom put me back in the RV, gave me water and told me to rest and cool down, and took Zippy out to let her do some more agility.
Okay, so then she decided that it was about time I try doing utility. It was my first time actually doing an entire utility run thru, and mom made some mistakes. But I guess mom decided that I might actually get my CDX one of these days and figured we should start to work on the next level. There were LOTS of distractions, and I was till sort of hot, and I wasn't exactly sure about what I was doing. But I surprised mom by doing the scent articles beautifully (had a full set of articles out, and I found both the correct metal and the leather articles). I wasn't sure about getting the glove and the go out on the directed jumping seemed to be WAYYYY far out and there were all the other dogs and people around. But the jumping part itself was cool. Mom and I still need to work some on the signal exercises so that I understand the first time what she wants me to do, but she said that my moving stand was a thing of beauty. So we are making progress.
Charlie got to visit with the ring crews in between other stuff that we did.
All in all a pretty good day!
Love, Jazz
Anyway, we were at a show n go, and Zippy also got to do jility, rally and bedience. The judge gave lots of extra halt commands when Zippy was doing novice bedience, cause mom asked him to (Zippy was convinced that she wasn't supposed to sit in the ring, cause of all the conformation stuff), and she did start to do automatic sits when she and mom stopped, so mom was pleased.
Well, FINALLY, I got my turn to do both open obedience and utility. First I did sits and downs. Mom was very happy that I stayed sitting for the full 3 minutes that she was out of sight. But then we waited and waited out in the sun until it was our turn to go into the open obedience ring. I admit, I was hot and tired and crabby by the time I got in the ring, so I didn't do a very good job. So mom put me back in the RV, gave me water and told me to rest and cool down, and took Zippy out to let her do some more agility.
Okay, so then she decided that it was about time I try doing utility. It was my first time actually doing an entire utility run thru, and mom made some mistakes. But I guess mom decided that I might actually get my CDX one of these days and figured we should start to work on the next level. There were LOTS of distractions, and I was till sort of hot, and I wasn't exactly sure about what I was doing. But I surprised mom by doing the scent articles beautifully (had a full set of articles out, and I found both the correct metal and the leather articles). I wasn't sure about getting the glove and the go out on the directed jumping seemed to be WAYYYY far out and there were all the other dogs and people around. But the jumping part itself was cool. Mom and I still need to work some on the signal exercises so that I understand the first time what she wants me to do, but she said that my moving stand was a thing of beauty. So we are making progress.
Charlie got to visit with the ring crews in between other stuff that we did.
All in all a pretty good day!
Love, Jazz
Monday, June 7, 2010
Zippy 1 Squirrel 0
After spending countless hours chasing squirrels, Zippy finally caught and killed one. Oh, I was Soooooo jealous! I told her she needed to give it to me, but she just brought it into the house still warm, and sat on the couch lording it over us. Mom couldn't figure out why I was barking at her.
Well then Mom called us to come to work, and Zippy proudly trotted by her. Mom's first thought was that she didn't recognize that toy! lol. Silly mom. When she looked at again, her response was, and I quote, "eeeeewwww!" We told mom she should have taken a photo, but did she listen to us? Nope -- all she could think of was getting that yucky thing out of Zippy's mouth and into the trash!
Zippy let mom take it -- I think she thought mom wanted to play too, and it wasn't mangled at all -- just very dead (still warm). But no -- mom just threw it in the trash! What a waste of a perfectly good squirrel!!!
Well then Mom called us to come to work, and Zippy proudly trotted by her. Mom's first thought was that she didn't recognize that toy! lol. Silly mom. When she looked at again, her response was, and I quote, "eeeeewwww!" We told mom she should have taken a photo, but did she listen to us? Nope -- all she could think of was getting that yucky thing out of Zippy's mouth and into the trash!
Zippy let mom take it -- I think she thought mom wanted to play too, and it wasn't mangled at all -- just very dead (still warm). But no -- mom just threw it in the trash! What a waste of a perfectly good squirrel!!!
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
FINALLY back to doing agility!
Hi Guys!
So I haven't written in forever! This is partly because the focus recently has not been on ME, but on my little sister. Well, so what if she is now a champion? I STILL have WAAAAY more titles than she does! And I can still beat her up!
Actually having her done with a championship is fun, cause now she has short hair, and I can beat her up without mom always yelling at me to stop chewing on her hair! It is really fun when me and Charlie both gang up on her -- and she can't complain cause she normally starts it.
So anyway, on Saturday we got to go to a CPE trial. Mom entered me in Veterans, cause I'm almost 8, so I only had to jump 16". Piece of cake! I qualified in all 4 runs, with one 1st place finish, and 2 2nd place finishes. Zippy also got to run 3 times (in the games). She said that when she got out there the first time, it was SOOO EXCITING with all the people and the dogs, and she wanted to run so much, that as soon as mom took the leash off, she was ZOOMING ZIPPY! Good news is that she didn't go out of the ring (which was just ribbon around the stakes), and once her brain started to click into gear, she made the first run into a tunnelers run -- tunnel, tunnel, tunnel, jump, tunnel tunnel tunnel jump table. Mom said that she finally started to pay attention to her about the time the buzzer went off. Second run, Zippy did much better paying attention to mom (but they wouldn't have qualified anyway cause there were weaves, and Zippy is still working on those, so Mom just ran by them), and by the 3rd run, she almost qualified (ran out of time - buzzer went off as she was going over the dog walk). Everyone enjoyed watching her, cause she was having soooo much fun! And mom was happy cause Zippy didn't run away, and paid attention once her brain kicked in.
Yesterday, we did agility, rally and bedience. Well, I did agility - Zippy only did rally and bedience. I had gotten so used to jumping those 16" jumps that I knocked some bars in 24" JWW. I normally don't knock bars like that, but Mom shoulda let me jump some 24" jumps to warm up, so I knew what I was doing. Then I went and qualified in rally advanced. After that we went back over and did the Standard run and I qualified with a 4th place finish (there were about 12 24" dogs that qualified, so mom was pleased). Came back and did rally excellent, to finish my RAE title. Then Zippy got to do bedience -- she qualified in novice, even though she forgot how to sit! She said that she is so confused. She has been told over and over during the past year that she is not supposed to sit when she goes into the ring; now, she is getting points off for not sitting! I told her not to worry - all she needs is that green ribbon. Then Zippy did rally novice and Q'd there as well, so now she has one leg towards her CD and one towards her RN. By that time I was done. I was SOOOO done -- but mom said it was time to do open obedience. WHAT? No - I am done! By the time I did the retrieve on the flat I was so disgusted that I brought the dumbbell back to mom and spit it out at her, and then I said I was done jumping. Mom had me excused from the sits and downs. Well then a bit later, Zippy and I got to do brace. That was sorta fun -- much more fun than doing bedience by myself. We got first place, but mom said that was mostly cause we were the only ones competing! :-) The judge was pleased by our recall, which was almost perfect. Our total score was 175 or 176 - don't remember exactly, so it wasn't too bad. We get to do it next week too, so we should be even better by then.
Hope everyone else had a good weekend!
Love,
Jazzy
So I haven't written in forever! This is partly because the focus recently has not been on ME, but on my little sister. Well, so what if she is now a champion? I STILL have WAAAAY more titles than she does! And I can still beat her up!
Actually having her done with a championship is fun, cause now she has short hair, and I can beat her up without mom always yelling at me to stop chewing on her hair! It is really fun when me and Charlie both gang up on her -- and she can't complain cause she normally starts it.
So anyway, on Saturday we got to go to a CPE trial. Mom entered me in Veterans, cause I'm almost 8, so I only had to jump 16". Piece of cake! I qualified in all 4 runs, with one 1st place finish, and 2 2nd place finishes. Zippy also got to run 3 times (in the games). She said that when she got out there the first time, it was SOOO EXCITING with all the people and the dogs, and she wanted to run so much, that as soon as mom took the leash off, she was ZOOMING ZIPPY! Good news is that she didn't go out of the ring (which was just ribbon around the stakes), and once her brain started to click into gear, she made the first run into a tunnelers run -- tunnel, tunnel, tunnel, jump, tunnel tunnel tunnel jump table. Mom said that she finally started to pay attention to her about the time the buzzer went off. Second run, Zippy did much better paying attention to mom (but they wouldn't have qualified anyway cause there were weaves, and Zippy is still working on those, so Mom just ran by them), and by the 3rd run, she almost qualified (ran out of time - buzzer went off as she was going over the dog walk). Everyone enjoyed watching her, cause she was having soooo much fun! And mom was happy cause Zippy didn't run away, and paid attention once her brain kicked in.
Yesterday, we did agility, rally and bedience. Well, I did agility - Zippy only did rally and bedience. I had gotten so used to jumping those 16" jumps that I knocked some bars in 24" JWW. I normally don't knock bars like that, but Mom shoulda let me jump some 24" jumps to warm up, so I knew what I was doing. Then I went and qualified in rally advanced. After that we went back over and did the Standard run and I qualified with a 4th place finish (there were about 12 24" dogs that qualified, so mom was pleased). Came back and did rally excellent, to finish my RAE title. Then Zippy got to do bedience -- she qualified in novice, even though she forgot how to sit! She said that she is so confused. She has been told over and over during the past year that she is not supposed to sit when she goes into the ring; now, she is getting points off for not sitting! I told her not to worry - all she needs is that green ribbon. Then Zippy did rally novice and Q'd there as well, so now she has one leg towards her CD and one towards her RN. By that time I was done. I was SOOOO done -- but mom said it was time to do open obedience. WHAT? No - I am done! By the time I did the retrieve on the flat I was so disgusted that I brought the dumbbell back to mom and spit it out at her, and then I said I was done jumping. Mom had me excused from the sits and downs. Well then a bit later, Zippy and I got to do brace. That was sorta fun -- much more fun than doing bedience by myself. We got first place, but mom said that was mostly cause we were the only ones competing! :-) The judge was pleased by our recall, which was almost perfect. Our total score was 175 or 176 - don't remember exactly, so it wasn't too bad. We get to do it next week too, so we should be even better by then.
Hope everyone else had a good weekend!
Love,
Jazzy
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Zippy is a Champion!
Zippy took both majors this weekend in Las Vegas to finish her championship!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!
So now we can concentrate on performance!!!!!!
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