Zer (Echo x Flyte) and Grace had a great Saturday at BARK! Agility’s spring USDAA trial, earning a Super Q with a First place, a Q in Master standard and Master Jumpers both with placements. Then they went on to earn their second Steeplechase Q with a third place in the first round. Zer went four for four!

Hatrick (Echo x Flyte) and Hannah had very nice run in Steeplechase running clean but just missed the cut off for the qualifiers.

On Sunday morning Cash (Bear x Flyte) and Lora earned their OA title at JAG’s AKC trial in New Jersey. Then this super team went on to finish their OAJ too! He’s now Pine Run Kiowa I Walk The Line RN OA OAJ OF.

Zer had yet another great day at BARK earning another Super Q, a Master Jumper’s Q and took third in the Steeplechase final!!

Cash (Bear x Flyte pup) and and Lora earned their Open FAST title this morning with a second place. They then went on to Q in their first Open Jumpers and Open Standard classes taking first place in both! Way to go team Pony Boy.

I am so pleased Lora found her team partner in Cash.

Great weekend with friends and agility at the LEAP agility trial how can you beat that.

Nikon and a great weekend double Q’ing both days including taking 3 first placements and a fourth place. These QQs are this tenth and eleventh for his MACH 4, plus adding another 111 points to already impressive lifetime point total of 4805 (as of 3/28/2010).

Not to be out done Snapshot Q’d in jumpers with a first place on Saturday but had one bobble in standard so no Q. Then on Sunday she earned her 7th double Q with two first places.

Trey, Pine Run’s Kiowa Picture This NA NAJ WC, earned his Novice Agility (NA) today with a fast time of 37 seconds!! With that time he earned first place as well. Go baby dog. Then in Open jumpers he had a blistering run but his speed caused us as few issues at the weave poles, so we still have a few things to work on.

March 20 – 21, 2010

At the annual All Dogs Gym tournament trial Grace and Zer, Pine Run’s Mountain Escape AX AXJ OF RN MAD, won the 26″ Steeplechase finals!! Way to go!

To top off the weekend Grace with Zer (Pine Run’s Mountain Escape AX AXJ OF RN MAD), Hannah with Hattie (Pine Run Joy of Sport AD) and Christie-Lee McNamara,Winona (Gaylan’s Ji:Hah Fire Keeper CD AX AXJ NJP RA) earned a third place with a Bronze medal during the DAM team event.

This is the second DAM team Q for both Zer and Hattie this year. They earned their first DAM Q with Trey at the BARK agility trial in January. These wonderful young dogs have a great future a head of them.

Interesting article in Science Daily…..

Canine Morphology: Hunting for Genes and Tracking Mutations

ScienceDaily (Mar. 3, 2010) — Why do domestic dogs vary so much in size,
shape, coat texture, color and patterning? Study of the dog genome has reached
a point where the molecular mechanisms governing such variation across
mammalian species are becoming understood.

For more click here.

November 1, 2009 — With all the “family” gathered for the Hudson Valley Golden Retriever Club’s all Golden Agility trial it was the perfect time to get a “family” photo. It was supposed to be Flyte and her “kids” but we also threw in Uncle Nikon for the fun.

Cash, Flyte, Trey, Nikon, Snapshot & Zer

A recent NY Times article, “Exploring the Health Benefits of Pets” discussing the health benefits that pets have on various conditions from Alzheimers to Autism, Anxiety to depression.

Took a few photos today while Kris trained Trey. He looks pretty good. Love the photo of him entering the weaves. Tried something new since there were a lot of nice photos of Trey, I created a slide show. Hope it works just click on the link

Trey slide show

Snapshot slide show

Okay, so the problem with being a professional photographer is that my dogs get photographed a lot. Then of course I have to share them. Here’s a few new ones of Flyte, Snapshot and Trey working in the field during a training session today.

Flyte

Snapshot takes flight!

Trey Diving for duck.

The shake off

Took a few new photos this weekend in front of the flower gardens of the “family.” Enjoy.

Nikon, Snapshot, Trey and Flyte Aug 1, 2009

Nikon, Snapshot and Trey. August 1, 2009

Snapshot and Trey, August 1, 2009 (the youngsters)

Snapshot. August 1, 2009 She a pretty girl.