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May 2010
3rd: Buster, Amy, and Layla turn 3!
15th: Lucy completed her WPD title, Bumper started his.
21st: Bumper and Gracie turn 1!
April 2010
10th: At the AMCW awards banquet: Buster finished the 2009-2019 weight pull
season out in 3rd place for the 81-100# class. Vinnie was 3rd and Ikey was
4th in the 61-80# class.
17-18th: Bark River UKC club Agility trials: Ikey earned 3 first placements and 3
legs to complete his UAG1 title!
24th-25th: Lucy completed her WWPDX title placing second and third in her class,
earning the last two legs for her title
29th: Lucy and Avalanche turn 2!
March 2010
15th: Bella turns 8!
21st: LDC weight pull Buster placed a respectable 5th of 22 in the 81-100# class
27th: Kewaskum pull Layla was 3rd place, Ikey was 4th in the 61-80# class.
Buster was 2nd place in the 81-100# class
30th: Ikey, Vinnie, Travis, Dash, and Mack turn 5!
February 2010
27-28: Blitzen agility trial at the International KC show Ikey earned his first legs in
Novice FAST and Novice Standard Preferred (1st place!). Layla finished her
Novice FAST title and earned her first leg in Open Standard. Travis earned
his first leg in Open Standard as well as Open FAST. In the IKC show
Sunday Lucy won the Bred-By Class.
January 2010
24th: Janboree pull Vinnie was 2nd and Ikey was 4th out of 17 in the 61-80# class.
December 2009
5th: AMCW Mukwonago Weight Pull. Ikey placed 3rd in the 61-80# class, Lucy
earned a WWPDA leg, Buster earned an extra WWPDX leg.
November 2009
21-22: Fennville, MI weight pulls. Buster earned his 5th WWPDX leg, Lucy earned
her second and third WWPDX legs. Ikey tied for top weight pulled on
Saturday out of the 61-80# class, the dog he tied with was the 81-100#
class winner. Ikey also took Top % pulled that day. Sunday Ikey again
won his class but by just 0.03 seconds over half sister Layla. Layla took
Top % pulled honors. Travis tied for top weight pulled out of the 81-100#
class.
27-28: Winnegamie KC agility trials. Travis completed his Agility Novice FAST title
(NF), Layla earned her first two Novice FAST legs, and completed her
Standard Novice title (NA).
October 2009
4th: AMCW Friends of Nature Menomonee Falls, WI weight pull: Vinnie was 4th in
the 61-80# class
11th: AMCW Friends of Nature Slinger, WI weight pull: Ikey was 3rd in the 61-80#
class and Vinnie was 4th. Lucy earned her 2nd WWPD leg
17-18th: Fennville, MI weight pulls: Lucy earned her 3rd WWPD leg and her first
WWPDX leg. Buster earned his 3rd and 4th WWPDX legs. Bella came
back out to pull for the first time in a long time!
25th: Leesburg, VA Rally Trial, Lucy participated in her first Novice Rally trial and
qualified, placing 4th. She'd never done Rally outdoors so this was a new
challenge on top of it being her first trial.
25th-27th: AMCA Regional Specialty Show, Obedience/Rally Trials, and Weight
pulls. Gettysburg PA. At the Historic Weight Pull Lucy completed her
WWPD title and Layla completed her WWPDX title, placing 4th. Bella
was 2nd place in her weight class. In Rally, Lucy qualified again,
earning her 2nd leg toward her title AND she won her class. Ikey won
his weight class, the 4th time in his weight pull career, leaving him still
undefeated in Regional competition.
28th-31st: AMCA National Specialty Show, Obedience/Rally/Agility Trials, and
Weight pull, Gettysburg, PA. In Rally Lucy once again qualified, this
time with a score of 99 and another first place, completing her Rally
Novice (RN) title. In the weight pulls, Ikey was 3rd place in the 61-80#
class. While this is his lowest placement at a National pull, I can't
complain because he'd endured a rigorous schedule all week. Sunday
they pulled, Monday they were off, Tuesday he pulled and won,
Wednesday he ran Agility for 3 runs, and then Thursday they were
pulling again. His nails were nearly worn to the quicks. Bella again
was 2nd place in her weight class. In agility, Travis earned the first leg
of his Novice FAST title. Layla completed her Novice Agility Jumpers
(NAJ) title there! It was Ikey's first trial. In FAST we knocked a bar on a
crucial jump so no Q there. In Standard we were two seconds too slow
for a Q--he popped out of the weaves twice, balked to sit on the pause
table, and when he did both the tire and broad jump in succession on
the course, I celebrated inside, got momentarily lost, cursed in front of
the stats table, picked back up and we finished well. Jumpers was
going well til Ikey didn't watch coming over a jump and there was a
collision. He crashed into the jump--a shame because he'd done the
weaves perfectly and was probably on good time and all we had left
was the jump chute at the end. Better luck next time! Lucy was 3rd in
her Sweepstakes class.
more will be added soon!