Thanksgiving weekend - Merrillville, IN

After all of the eating and drinking from Thanksgiving... it was time to run the boys at the AKC trial in Merrillville, IN.

Saturday: Rumor had a nice Std run where he had a beautiful startline and fantastic contacts. He kinda ran a bit chaotic through parts of the course, but he had some very nice sections and I was thrilled with the contacts. Dylan started the day off with a bang by getting a 2nd place in Exc A JWW and *finally* finishing his AXJ! How on earth has it taken so long? Anyways, he ran beautifully and I was thrilled -- good boy D Dylan! Rumor's JWW started out a bit shaky, but ended quite nicely, so I was happy with that. He is going around jumps less and is starting to read *some* lines... Dylan's Std run was great except he missed the dogwalk contact -- otherwise, I was thrilled with D's day!

Sunday: Rumor started the day in JWW... it wasn't very pretty and once I saw he was giving me NO EFFORT on the weaves, he got pulled. Dylan had a nice run in Std all except for the dogwalk and a-frame... oops! Who wants to touch the yellow anyways?!? I brilliantly almost missed Dylan's JWW run (thanks Polly!) so it wasn't all that pretty, but he was still having fun out there. Rumor's Std run was the last run of the day... his contacts, again, looked really nice... I'm pleased with those. Lots of other things we have to work on in between!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I'm really looking forward to Hounds this weekend.