RE Title!

Well we did it - qualified for the last leg of our RE title today =) We didn't place this time... a score of 87. Would've had a 97 if we wouldn't have screwed up the Back Up 3 Steps station. For one, it was right after a jump, which is ridiculous in itself. We tried it the first time, and Red moved out of position. Turned around, tried it again, and he did the same thing. So I said "screw it" and just took the IP for 10 points. god I HATE that freaking station, lol... oh well, we still qualified so that's all I care!

I was saying in yesterday's post about how big the venue was - that it was like something you see on TV. I've never been to this large of a show before so it was really cool.

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Here's the crating area for the obedience/rally rings. You can see Red sitting in front of his crate.




Red in front of the obedience rings




Just one of the grooming areas for the conformation dogs




Some of the conformation rings






A weight pulling demonstration with Alaskan Malamutes




The duck herding ring




The crating area for the flyball teams




Flyball - this was really cool to watch, and so exciting!






I didn't get a professional photo for our RE title (the nutcase photographer wanted $50 to email me a digital file! what a ripoff!) so I had some random bystander take our photo instead :)




And no completion of a title would be complete without treating Redders to some McDonalds hamburgers! :D (I didn't realize you can see me in the video until I watched it back.. :/ )



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Red at home showing off all his regular placement and qualifying ribbons (not counting the rosettes) for Rally and Obedience :)