Sunday, July 30, 2017

Surf City Tournament

We packed up the car and drove south to the Surf City TUG Summer Games right after recovering from Truckee. Back to back tournaments are always tough to gauge on the dogs, but Cooper seemed happy to be heading to an activity weekend. It was good to see everyone else and Cooper worked his butt off to help SoCal out after they had some dogs pulled at the last minute. A tough weekend for him, but he was a trooper and pulled out multiple back to backs in both rings... Camden worked ring side to solidify her recalls and did some free form retrieve work outside... Not a bad weekend overall, but they were definitely both worn out by the time we reached the hotel on Sunday night prior to driving home on Monday....

Monday, July 17, 2017

Truckee Patriot Games...

Both Cooper and Camden packed up and hit the road to a fantastic outdoor flyball tournament filled with sun, surrounded by beautiful evergreens and mountain views.  But before that, it was a long drive Friday night from the Bay Area up to Truckee for the Truckee Patriot Games...  Enjoying the 5,287 feet elevation, Camden did awesome with distraction work next to the noisy ring and getting herself settled in between heats and races with minimal barking.

Cooper worked his butt off for his team, formed early Saturday morning while Steve and I ran around asking for extra dogs, a ball shagger, and most important of all, a box loader for 8 races each day.  A special call out to Ball Haulers for providing us with an awesome box loader and Silver Streaks for Donna and Mike's help on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.  We could not have done it without you guys!

And of course, thanks to Greg and Janet from AAR and SoCal flyball for offering up extra dogs for our open team... Having never practiced or run together, we did well enough to come back home Sunday night with sufficient points... See everyone next year!