starting rally
We are also still continuing with agility but she moved from the puppy class to the intro class which is almost just a lateral move as they still keep everything low.. just work in longer sequences which she is ready for. Plus it's on a better night Thursday... Friday at 5:30 for the puppy class made me miss too many happy hours!!!!!  It's going to be a fun 6 weeks!  |
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| sounds like a smartie who needs continual challenges. Good for you for making the change. Agility will come in time. |
| You will love rally and so will fred. Lily loves rally. When we pull up to the training facility she cries til we get out to work. |
All of us loved Rally~~~~ Pearl got her advanced title at the age of 12, but we couldn't go to EX due to the jumps. I think it kept her moving and we both enjoyed being in the ring together. Heart has her RE and again, we both enjoyed the teamwork. (Although she was very kind when I missed the last sign more than once.  ) But, in spite of ME, she was able to finish.As long as you study the signs, feel comfortable with them, when you get into the ring, you can concentrate on you and Fred. I love that you can do anything to keep her engaged, except treats and touching. Talk to her, get her excited to be with you in the ring and HAVE FUN!!!! Judi, bless her 'heart' printed all the signs on cards and, on the back the description on how to execute them. She lamanated them and put them on an O-ring so we could take them out before going into the ring to make sure we knew what WE were doing. Both Heart and Pearl were able to get their Novice title with in 3 or 4 tries. Advance was a little more difficult since it is done off lead, and Ex. has more signs and took a little longer, but I can really say, we enjoyed the heck out of it!!! Keep us posted and Good luck!!! |
| I started Rally with my basset Simon. It was a new sport in 2005, and we started in 2007. Simon was 6 when I adopted him from basset rescue...and he loved it! He went right through RN - Rally Novice - in 3 shows - it was done before I barely even noticed! I was leery about Advanced - bassets off lead and doing a jump are not the usual recipe for success!  But luckily Todd nudged me along ("that dog loves you, I bet he'll do it") and we went on. It was during our 3 Advanced trials that I met Kristine and ended up getting Chewie - we were in the same trial out in WI - me with Simon, her with Belle...and Mad with her pups was at home.  Chewie was ready to start Novice, when I was finishing Excellent with Simon. It was crazy at the same trials with the extremes of an OES in Novice, and a basset hound in Excellent! I would sometimes call the wrong name...they are very forgiving.  Simon finished his RE in 3 shows, and I decided not to go on for the RAE with him. He was already 9 yrs old, and he retired from competition. He was still a therapy dog, so he had his outings and attention.  Chewie LOVES rally - he went right on thru all the levels. His only NQ run was as a puppy in Novice, and it was when I entered him in both conformation and rally the same day - and the intense grooming before the breed ring made him sad and not want to work...he pouted in the ring! So, once I learned that, we were good and he never NQ'd again.  This past week at Nationals, I timed it so Chewie was going for his RAE2 - RAE is doing both Advanced and Excellent in then same trial, and qualifying in both - and doing it 10 times. The RAE2 is doing it 20 times. On Thursday he had his 20th consecutive combined qualifying scores ((98 and 91), and earned his RAE2! On the same day, Bond started his rally journey, and got his 1st RN leg, with a nice score of 96 (of 100). It is lots of fun, for humans and dogs! |
| I started Rally with my boy Hudson when my knee no longer permitted us to play in agility. Hudson misses agility. He has his Rally Excellent title but really seems to resent those stations where we have to stop for a while - such as pivots, etc. He really enjoys the moving sections where we do spirals, back up 3 steps in position, call to front, etc. the most and just does the more static stations to please me. We now have 4 legs towards our RAE title, but just developed an issue of barking on course. We were docked 1 point per bark the last time we competed so we are taking a break for a while to solve that problem. Another fun activity to do with your dog is K9 Nose Work. See website: www.nacsw.net for more info on that. Linda Zimmerman & Hudson |
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