Then on Sunday Zer Q’d in Master Standard with a second place.

Hattie (Echo x Flyte), and Hannah earned their MAD (master agility dog title) on Saturday.  They also qualified in Master snooker and Master Jumper where they took 4th place!!

What a great weekend for these young dogs!

Saturday, (August 7, 2010):

First round – standard – clean, first place.  42.11 seconds, 100 pts.

Second round - standard – 44.55 seconds, 90 pts (up contact fault for 5 pts.  and R for 5 pts. – shoot to a jump, he curved too far out of shoot, over-shot the jump plane) – 7th place at the end of 2 rounds

Sunday, (August 8, 2010):

Third round – hybrid – with two seesaws – 34.45 seconds, 90 pts – up contact for 5 pts, R for 5 pts (bad call says ALL – he got stuck in between two strips of sod and hesitated as he unstuck himself before taking the jump.  Grrr.  Score keepers screwed up the entry so I am not sure where he was at the end of three.

Fourth round - Jumpers – W – took a jump that wasn’t supposed to be there for 10 pts.  35.49 seconds, 90 pts.

Cum score 270, cum time 156.6 seconds

Way to go Cash and Lora!!

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!!

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

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.

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.

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.

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