Last night Tequila gave birth to two adorable baby girls. One is a black irish pied and the other is black & tan. She was showing signs of giving birth yesterday, so we brought her to the office so I could supervise her.
She did fine during the day, jumping up on the back of the couch to supervise the neighborhood and scare off any dogs that might walk by.
When we went home last night she was still full of energy and, except for having milk, no signs of puppies coming. Finally, at about 10 pm, she popped out 2 puppies quickly and was done!
I'll try to get some photos posted soon.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
AKC Agility for the first time
This weekend Star competed in her first AKC agility trial, the Greater Portland Doberman Pinscher club sponsored it at the Clark County Fairgrounds in Ridgefield, WA. (Star is the puppy at the top of my blog - she's grown a bit since then!)
Our first class was the FAST class. I made a plan, but Star wasn't completely on board with my plan. She refused a couple of obstacles, then my timing (and addition!) got out of sync (I was supposed to get 50 points) She did the gamble correctly, so we had 33 of the 50 points needed. She then got the tire, so there was 10 more points. She refused a jump I had planned and ran out of time....we ended up just one point short! Oh well, we'll do better next time.
Shortly thereafter, and much to my amazement, she qualified on her first Jumpers with Weaves (JWW) run!!! I had been worrying about how she would handle the weave poles, since she has a tendency to not make it around all of them (even though novice dogs only have to do 6). She did great!!! And we had a decent time.
When it came time later in the day for the Standard class, she had a lot more trouble. She has never seen a proper broad jump until the ring. She was a bit surprised by it (painted a garish purple and white). I could not get her to go over it, so we went around it and finished the rest of the run. Again she did a great job with her weaves!. It was long day for her and she slept well that night.
On Sunday, we again started with JWW. I wasn't particularly happy with her run, although she again did her weaves well! I didn't think we had qualified, because I though time ran out before her finish. Later I checked and what a surprise, she qualified again!!!!
Star's standard run was the 2nd to last run of any dog that day and she was tired. She made her first 3 obstacles and then decided not to jump the 4th jump. O.k. on to the dreaded broad jump. She started to go around, then stopped and sniffed it. Apparently it smelled fine, because she posed behind it, I got in front and she jumped it. Yeah Star!!!! That was our win for the Standard, because after that it fell apart completely. I think the judge was ready to go home. When our time ran out, we still had a number of obstacles, but she whistled us off the course. I tried to send her through the tunnel for the finish, but she missed that and appeared happy to head home.
We took our 5th wheel up to the fairgrounds so we didn't have to run back and forth (and so I didn't have to get up quite so early for those early runs!). When we parked, the ground was o.k., although there were wet areas all around. Later than night, the area outside the trailer turned into a muddy mess (and I had thrown away our worn out mats last fall). I had to run and buy a mat, in an attempt to keep things at least a bit clean. No such luck, the dogs and the rig were covered with mud.
Our first class was the FAST class. I made a plan, but Star wasn't completely on board with my plan. She refused a couple of obstacles, then my timing (and addition!) got out of sync (I was supposed to get 50 points) She did the gamble correctly, so we had 33 of the 50 points needed. She then got the tire, so there was 10 more points. She refused a jump I had planned and ran out of time....we ended up just one point short! Oh well, we'll do better next time.
Shortly thereafter, and much to my amazement, she qualified on her first Jumpers with Weaves (JWW) run!!! I had been worrying about how she would handle the weave poles, since she has a tendency to not make it around all of them (even though novice dogs only have to do 6). She did great!!! And we had a decent time.
When it came time later in the day for the Standard class, she had a lot more trouble. She has never seen a proper broad jump until the ring. She was a bit surprised by it (painted a garish purple and white). I could not get her to go over it, so we went around it and finished the rest of the run. Again she did a great job with her weaves!. It was long day for her and she slept well that night.
On Sunday, we again started with JWW. I wasn't particularly happy with her run, although she again did her weaves well! I didn't think we had qualified, because I though time ran out before her finish. Later I checked and what a surprise, she qualified again!!!!
Star's standard run was the 2nd to last run of any dog that day and she was tired. She made her first 3 obstacles and then decided not to jump the 4th jump. O.k. on to the dreaded broad jump. She started to go around, then stopped and sniffed it. Apparently it smelled fine, because she posed behind it, I got in front and she jumped it. Yeah Star!!!! That was our win for the Standard, because after that it fell apart completely. I think the judge was ready to go home. When our time ran out, we still had a number of obstacles, but she whistled us off the course. I tried to send her through the tunnel for the finish, but she missed that and appeared happy to head home.
We took our 5th wheel up to the fairgrounds so we didn't have to run back and forth (and so I didn't have to get up quite so early for those early runs!). When we parked, the ground was o.k., although there were wet areas all around. Later than night, the area outside the trailer turned into a muddy mess (and I had thrown away our worn out mats last fall). I had to run and buy a mat, in an attempt to keep things at least a bit clean. No such luck, the dogs and the rig were covered with mud.
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