Hounds for the Holidays

What a fun weekend! Hounds for the Holidays is probably my favorite trial of the year... I went for all 4 days and so many of my friends were there... how could it not be fun? The good news is that all of my friends had some very nice runs this weekend so it was success for all of the pups involved :)

Rumor was such a good boy... I finally realized that I wasn't "handling" him and a baby dog needed more help than I was giving him... He got a Standard Q Thur, Fri and Sat in Novice to finish his NA title over the weekend. I was very proud of him for that. Our Open JWW runs weren't quite as successful, but we did end the weekend with a fabulous run and gorgeous weaves... the weaves have really been a struggle recently for Rumz. So, I could not have been happier with his weekend... his NA title and perfect weaves for his last run of the weekend. I was very proud of him.

Dylan had some nice runs this weekend too. I didn't enter him for Sunday, but he did quite nicely Thur-Sat... I was very happy with his JWW runs... 1 or 2 little mistakes in each run, but he was cruisin', happy and had much nicer weaves this weekend. In Standard we were doing some more training on the contacts so he got pulled a majority of the Standard runs, but hopefully we're making some progress there.

We had so much fun at night in the hotel... lots of Catchphrase was played and it was entertaining because all 3 judges got hooked on the game. It was a great weekend, but very exhausting and I might need some recovery time :)