Last Saturday was our annual Halloween fun match. The weather was cool but nice and we had a great turnout. For the first time ever our entries were fairly evenly divided between agility, rally and obedience. High in match agility was Beth and her sheltie Chance, high in match rally was Lynn and golden retriever Rummy and high in match obedience was Kristie and sheltie Trace. After the competition we had our annual costume contest which is always hysterical. The winner this year was Wendy and her lab Franken"Thunder". Noel was dressed as a hula girl and Scott had China dressed as a bumblebee and Sula as a bride. You can view pictures of the costume contest on the Good Dog Center website (www.gooddogcenter.com) on the Fun Photos page. I did a rally run through with Paige and a novice run through with Noel. Both did well although Noel was initially distracted by all the new dogs in "her" training building.
Today is Paige's 10th birthday. Happy Birthday Paige! Time goes too fast - it seems like only a year ago that my brother in law picked her up for me in Colorado and delivered her to Decorah when she was 11 weeks old. She marched right into the Good Dog Center building like she owned the place (maybe she knew she partially did). She has had quite a successful competition career that is nearing an end: two National High in Trials, multiple all breed and specialty High in Trials, top obedience Collie in the country for 2003 and topped off her obedience career with an invitation to the AKC National Obedience Championships in 2009. I'm so proud of Paige and everything she has accomplished. She deserves all the ribbons and awards that cover our walls and I'm grateful for everything that she gave to me. Other than a little bit of agility and rally competition, she's taking it easy these days. Just for fun I took her herding last week and she'll attend the herding clinic that we're involved in this weekend. She has earned her fun!
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