Harry has a new obedience title
 We were the first dog in the ring. It started out a little rough with some very poor heeling, in fact he hasn't heeled this poorly since we started in Open. Here he is ready for the Figure 8 heeling:  The Drop on Recall was a little discombobulating. The judge forgot to give me the signal for the drop. I was thinking "What the heck" and Harry had a funny look on his face as he kept coming but he did a nice front. The judge says "My bad" and calls us back to do it again. That was more than my nerves could take but Harry was a pro and did a nice drop on recall. This is the Retreive Over The Jump:   Except for the heeling he did well and we just needed the long sits and downs. After the last time I was nervous but he did great. In fact, someone told me that a dog in the next ring poked his nose over at Harry who was at the end and Harry didn't break his sit stay.  They called out the numbers for the qualifiers and Harry's number was one of four announced.  There was a tie between two dogs so they did a heel off for placement. Harry was one of those dogs. Despite the photo below, he felt no need to redeem himself after our poor heeling earlier and proceeded to give a repeat performance of his first effort.   We took 4th with our highest score ever of 190.  Here is the newly titled dog with his proud handler outside the ring:  Harry shows off his new ribbons:  Our title portrait:  and his new title letters are..... Show Me's Harrington CDX RAE NA NAJ OF I am really proud of my boy. We got our title in just four attempts. He needed 3 qualifying legs so we only failed once. I didn't realize that the Q rate in Open obedience is not all that high. In fact someone gave me a ridiculous number that I still find hard to believe as the average for attempts to get the title. But I looked at the results for our entries in the ring and the average number of qualifiers for those was only 1/3 of the dogs. |
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WAY TO GO HARRY & JUDI!   |
  WAY TO GO ....HARRY AND JUDI!!!!!!! You both looked GREAT !!!!!! |
| Way to go Harry and Judi! Cindy |
| Way to go Harry and Judi! Does Harry give lessons? I know a certain little girl who may need some pointers... Vance |
| Wonderful, Wonderful!!! Congratulations Judi and Harry on your new ribbons and achievements!!! The pictures are some of the best (IMO). You are both beaming!!! |
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I was waiting for this post!!!   Congrats on this huge accomplishment You guys did wonderful and how lucky you had a photographer there to capture it!! Is this the usual there? I never have been at a obedience trial that had a photographer (except for the ones in conjunction with a conformation show....and then it's like pulling teeth to get them to the obedience area!) |
| CONGRATULATIONS HARRY AND JUDI!!!!!!!!! I'm sooooooooo happy for you both.  Photos are wonderful!! |
| What exciting news!! Harry is not just a handsome face, he has so many talents too. Give him a big hug from us! |
| Judy, soon his new name will require TWO lines. Good job BOTH of you |
 WTG harrington |
| Does Harry ever take a bad picture? He always looks so handsome, I end up looking at his pictures over and over. |
| Woo Hoo!! Congratulations to you and Harry |
Congratulations Harry!!! And your mom always complains about you misbehaving, this title proves that's all hogwash!  Always the most handsome boy out there!!  |
| Way To Go Harry and Judi |
| CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nice work, Judi!  Kristine |
| That is wonderful. I have a girl who needs work on stay. I agree you are both beaming in the pictures. Keep up the good work. |
| That's great, you look so happy and of course Harry is handsome as can be. |
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