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An invite to checkerboard square
Matt's not the only person heading out in the near future. Cala has been
invited to do the 60 weave pole challenge at the Purina Incredible Dog Challenge. It's invitation only, and we will be filmed for Tee Vee. It'll be September 10 for the filming, I have no idea if/when it will broadcast. Now me, I am looking at this as an opportunity to make a total fool of myself in front of a National audience, rather than the Regional audience I generally make a fool of myself in front of. Cala is still green and I'm not even sure she'll hit the entry, much less do 60 poles. She has a tendency to hit the poles and drive so hard she gets tangled. So I'm practicing entries and exits on 12. I may do a couple of sets of 18 or 24 before the day, but no way am I asking her to do 60 poles in a row on anything like a regular basis. Right now my goal is to help her find a better rhythm in staked-down inline poles--something I've needed to do for a long time anyway. I'm also working on sending her slightly ahead at both start and finish, as well as having poles set to each side of the start and finish to replicate the electronic timers we'll have. So wish me luck! In this case, luck means at least getting into the poles the correct direction and doing, say, half before coming out. |
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on 2005-08-18 at 13:56 wrote:
So wish me luck! In this case, luck means at least getting into the poles the correct direction and doing, say, half before coming out. good luck! -- shelly http://www.cat-sidh.net http://cat-sidh.blogspot.com/ http://letters-to-esther.blogspot.com/ (updated 7/10/05) |
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"Robin Nuttall" wrote in message news:ns0Ne.262139$_o.252414@attbi_s71... Matt's not the only person heading out in the near future. Cala has been invited to do the 60 weave pole challenge at the Purina Incredible Dog Challenge. Good luck! A friend of mine was invited to the So. Cal. event a few months back - not sure if it was ever televised or if it will be at some point. She got a bronze medal, which was pretty dang good considering her Sheltie just makes 14" and the winners were both much larger dogs. I believe they had one warm-up run, so you should at least get some idea of what Cala does with 60 poles. I've never done that many, but I've done 48, and suprisingly, it seems like the dogs just kinda go with it and keep the rhythm up. The only problems seem to occur with dogs that have a rhythm slightly off from the pole spacing - with 12, its a small offset and they manage to stay in fine, but as they do more and more, that offset gets larger till they end up missing a pole. Its hard to anticipate which dogs will do this, though! Christy |
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Good luck! A friend of mine was invited to the So. Cal. event a few months back - not sure if it was ever televised or if it will be at some point. She got a bronze medal, which was pretty dang good considering her Sheltie just makes 14" and the winners were both much larger dogs. They did one at the last NADAC trial I went to. I didn't stay to watch it though, since it was last thing of the day & I wanted to get home (2 1/2 hr drive). I know that in the past, Elaine Haven's with her black Belgian, Blazer has done amazingly well at the weave-pole challenges. Shelly & The Boys |
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Robin Nuttall said in
rec.pets.dogs.behavior: Cala has been invited to do the 60 weave pole challenge at the Purina Incredible Dog Challenge. It's invitation only, and we will be filmed for Tee Vee. It'll be September 10 for the filming, I have no idea if/when it will broadcast. I'll look forward to seeing it! I've done 60 weave poles with Rocky in a fun event (he was on OLN for a few seconds), but the dog (Border Collie) which won it was half his time. If any dog can beat a BC at 60 weaves, it's gotta be a Dobie. -- --Matt. Rocky's a Dog. |
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Rocky wrote:
Robin Nuttall said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior: Cala has been invited to do the 60 weave pole challenge at the Purina Incredible Dog Challenge. It's invitation only, and we will be filmed for Tee Vee. It'll be September 10 for the filming, I have no idea if/when it will broadcast. I'll look forward to seeing it! I've done 60 weave poles with Rocky in a fun event (he was on OLN for a few seconds), but the dog (Border Collie) which won it was half his time. If any dog can beat a BC at 60 weaves, it's gotta be a Dobie. Well I haven't heard a thing from them since agreeing to the invite and it's in 2 weeks, so who knows if I'm really in or not! But I'm getting in lots of good weave practice with Cala anyway. She's now really getting good rhythm on the set of 12. I haven't even pushed it to 18, probably will do that next week but that's probably it. She'll stay in or she won't. |
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