Doing anything interesting over Easter?

[AiA in Atlanta]

I had a picnic in Chattanooga Tennessee on the river there. Beautiful day!

[Rainbow Moonlight]

I waited until evening so i coudl ring my kids up and tell them happy easter. their father insists he should have them when public holidays are involved. I am allowed a night time good nioght phonecall to the youngest.

[Jovial Monk]

Well, Demi got her secoAnd leg of her CCD title Saturday, in fact she came third!

today, she got 2 more points for the heeling, same marks as yesterday for stand for exam and the recall. Wait for 9 other dogs to go through the ring, in for the stays. Do the 1 minute sit-stay no probs--at this stage she was likely in first place. Two minute drop-stay and with just 30 seconds to go demi sits up and bombs that trial! Fuck!

Oh well

Think she had had enough by then, esp the travelling Adel-Kalangadoo and then the 50Km each way MtGambier to Kalangadoo.

Will be showing off the 3rd place sash at the dog club tonight!

[Hebe]

Post a pic!

[Jovial Monk]

Yes boss!

Will bring my cam to the club.

Have a lot of pics from the trip, haven't had the energy to go through and process them yet. Niece took movie & pics & burned them onto a DVD but my Mac can't read it!

[AiA in Atlanta]

I waited until evening so i coudl ring my kids up and tell them happy easter. their father insists he should have them when public holidays are involved. I am allowed a night time good nioght phonecall to the youngest.

Those seem quite severe terms ele ... I mean, you ARE the mother.

[Jovial Monk]

Third place sash, as requested

Community Companion Dog, CCD, is the first and lowest title--competitors can elect to go straight into Companion Dog, CD, trials. Might be fine with a border collie or german koolie etc but with my crossgrained terrier bitch thought it prudent to go for CCD first.

Besides obedience there is agility & jumping, fast & furious action as dogs lose points if they take too long to go around the course--this is all off-lead of course. There are also herding classes/trials, but not for terriers and retrieval trials--dog to bring back birds or rabbits shot by the handler.

Something new being tried--Earth Dog--pretty much just for terriers but also daschhunds etc. Want to get Demi into this but the events seem to always be on a Saturday when I have to be at the shop!

[Jovial Monk]

Taken at about 7.00am on the first day--note the fog still hanging around. This was my first country show and I was staggered to see just how many were actually camping on the ground, in caravan, campervan and tent. I bet those in tents really appreciated the cccccold and moist conditions! One caravan had a portable generator and TV antenna!

The square-sided blue tent wasn't a tent: it was a hide where handlers in the very top classes (Utility Dog, Utility Dog Excellent) hid for the seven minute drop stay with handlers out of sight. Note the little trailer just right of centre, it is actually a dog caravan! For two dogs, you also have bigger ones that can hold four dogs, each in its own space. I approached the little trailer just after it arrived and burst out laughing--one of the dogs stuck it face in the window of the trailer, displacing the little curtain there, just like a nosy parker old biddy looking out at what is happening

[Jovial Monk]

Well, AG didn't visit any caves but I did! This is the "Pipe Organ" in the Alexandra cave, Naracoorte.

[Hebe]

Wonderful! Community Companion Dog sounds like a terrific award to have. And the cave is stunning.