Bragging Rights

2009 BTCA Specialty Achievements - September 27-October 01, 2009 - Centreville, MD

Maise did a picture perfect run to qualify in Senior at the National Specialty ED test under judge Sharon Yon

She topped this off by qualifying in her Novice B Rally Class (judge Cheryl Pratt)

She also had "fun" in Obedience and Conformation though her respective handlers might disagree!

Don't mess with this judge

Maisie indeed pulled off a fine weekend, causing me (and Pam) my usual palpitations with her need to investigate the surrounding hedgerows before she actually enters the tunnel, but she is running so fast that she still got to the rats in time (assisted by a good smack with Pam's clipboard when she thought she might pause to say hello), worked them beautifully (they were quite the ugliest, most ferocious rats I have ever seen) and recalled instantly when they were removed.
I was delighted with her.

This brag will benefit North Toronto Cat Rescue.

This Time I Will !!

In her JE run on Sat. am, Maisie had her usual attack of the zoomies ,but managed to hold herself together in the PM under Judge Ron Sebastiani. It looked like she was going to take off running in the afternoon, but, after just a few paces, she quite literally seemed to put the brakes on, trotted back and straight down to work, so here's hoping she's had some kind of breakthrough in her little mind??????

Sunday she moved up to SE. No zoomies, she started very purposefully to the entrance, then changed her mind! Several dogs had peed at the entrance, so that may have put her off, but she just started off to look for another way in, right into the false exit, found the rats , worked beautifully and recalled without any problem, Judge Russ Wischover said it broke his heart to have to fail her because she worked so well and that ,if she were working in the field, it wouldn't matter where she entered.

Maybe I will, maybe I won't

Maisie stayed true to her recently acquired unpredictable form by sandwiching a perfect AKC JE leg between two "how annoying can I possibly be" runs at the Lackawanna ED Tests in PA June 19-21, 2009.
Seems her "inner earthdog" is easily overridden by her outer flamboyance

Not Exactly Mainstream

In Isobel's words [edited for context]
A couple of weekends ago, I took the little JR I train in Obedience to NAMBR's (North American Mixed Breed Registry) first ED tests.
They only had 7 entries, all JRs, so I was prevailed upon to let Maisie have a go - well....
2 JE Tests later, she had a NAMBR JE Title. - her "inner earthdog " seems to emerge without encouragement!

Well! That took care of that

Maisie capitalized on her handy sized and wrapped up her Canadian Championship at the Fredericton Kennel Club shows (July 25, 26, 27, 2008) with Best of Breed and a Group 3rd under John Ross at the BTC Booster on Friday then Best of Breed on Saturday (judge Margaret Jones) and Best of Breed and a Group 4th on Sunday (judge Susan Badick).
Just to emphasize that she is not just a pretty thing, she also earned the first leg of her CKC SE title under judge Maria Sacco at the BTC CKC ED Test on July 27, 2008.

More "to the point"

Maisie added one more point towards her CKC CH by going Winners Bitch at the Hochelaga Kennel Club Show on May 18, 2008 under judg Polly Smith

Getting "to the point" in yet another venue

Actually that should be "two points", Maisie tucked her CKC Major under her belt by going Winners Bitch at the Ontario Breeders Show in Markham, ON on February 23, 2008 under Judge Bruce Owen

It's in the Genes

No Messing Around

After the disappointment of coming into season and thus not being able to run in the Maritime ED Tests, Maisie did not waste any time in earning her Canadian JE at the Dachshund Club of Greater Ontario ED Tests on August 25-26, 2007 (judges Richard Reynolds and Pam Dyer)

She's Red Hot.......

In Isobel's words:
"Maisie went off to a Flyball tournament this weekend. Since she has had virtually no training, the goal was just to put her in warm-ups and see how she coped with the frenzy of a tournament.
We started with restrained recalls, which did not go particularly well - she patterns very quickly and she knew the aim of the game was to get the ball from the box, so she was trying to turn and do that.
When we caved to her pressure and allowed her to do so, things went much better. She was delighted to go down get her ball and bring it back, ignoring ( much to my surprise ) all distractions.
Some teams had to pull at the last moment because of kennel cough, so there were a couple of races with nobody running in the parallel lane, and it was decided to let her try to actually run with the team since we would n't have to worry about her going over to visit the opposition - no problem and she had her FD.
At the end, when there was a team running against us, we put her in again and again - no problem - but her team-mates messed up!!! The rest of the team was most apologetic , since otherwise she could have also pulled off her FDX. She was, in fact, the only dog on our team to run clean throughout the day!
For some of this, we had her being run by the daughter of one of the team members, Kendra, aged 11 years, who adores her and was desperate to have a little dog to run ( her family's dogs are too large for Kendra to manage) and with me alongside coaching them, the 2 youngsters pulled it off. Kendra can certainly run faster than me, as can Maisie, so she may become Maisie's regular handler!
In the meantime, however, although Flyball is not my favourite dog activity it looks like Maisie and I will be trucking off to train her properly for the game, rather than just relying on her instinct to get the ball."

This brag will benefit North Toronto Cat Rescue

Flash!!
Turns out that Maisie actually got her FDX in her first venture into Flyball (somebody on our team miscalculated the points).