Two more from the DockDogs at the Kingston Sheepdog Trials session.
Photos are uploading to the online album as I type this and should be all there by this evening (Thursday)
Meanwhile – enjoy!
Saturday and Sunday saw me at the 1000 Islands Dock Dogs club Dock Diving session at the Kingston Sheep Dog Trials.
Some fabulous jumpers and some reluctant jumpers, but everyone had a great time!
I’ll be posting all the photos online in a few days. Meanwhile, here’s a sample of the action.
(click on photo for larger view and use your back button to return)
Monday, August 10, 2009 Posted in dogs
My Baby boy turned one year old on Saturday. Doesn’t time fly!
I heard the sad news that a dog I photographed recently at the ADSC agility trial had passed away from cancer.
His owner asked me to make something special from three of the photos.
Thee AAC Nationals at the Equestrian Park in Nepean have come and gone. Three days of competition (four if you count the prequalifers) starting with two steeplechase runs on Friday. Tyra’s 2 runs were fast enough to get her into the steeplechase finals on Sunday afternoon. This is her second stepplechase final at a Nationals event. She also made it into the fnals last year in the very competitive 26″ regular class.. This year she’s running as a 22″ special dog. I’m very pleased with her overall 5th place finish with 3 individual first placements in both standards and the second jumpers.
One of the stars of the show was 12 year old Pippin. He and Leslie won first place in their class to become the 10″ Veterans National Champions! Congratulations to Leslie and Pippin!
Had a fun session with a 6 month old cairn terrier named Clicker. She had boundless energy!
I seem to be getting a lot of SPAM recently to the comments section of the blog. The blog is set to moderate all comments and is monitored by Akismet so none are appearing in the blog.
The current set of spam comments come from posters giving the e-mail address in the form of name1_name2@gmail.com
Annoying. Very annoying.
Sunday, July 19, 2009 Posted in dogs, gear
So, thought it was about time I had a new camera 🙂
The new K7 from Pentax came out and I couldn’t resist. It’s small and light and looks like the perfect carry-around camera when I don’t want to lug the 1Dmk3 around. It also does video and although that’s not really a feature I intend using, I did give it a try yesterday.
Meanwhile, here’s one of the first photos out of the camera.
Big Congrats to Dawn and Gracie who earned their AAC Gold Award of Merit at AARF on Canada day!
This past weekend saw us at Dreamfields for the Ottawa Valley Golden Retriever Club / Ottawa Valley Poodle Club CKC Agility trial (affectionately known as the “Goldenpoo trial”).
Tyra came home with her AGMXJ title (Agility Master Excellent Jumpers with Weaves). Ivan lost his brain, but mercifully found it in time for the last run where he earned his first Intermediate Standard Q.
Big congrats to Gill Shields and Myda who earned her AGMCh at the trial!
Photos of the event can be found here:
http://www.muddypawz.net/html_site/dfckc_0609
