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Annie needs another leg for a title...and not certain when we'll get to do it. Right now the next tests in our area are planned for the first week in November. The weather will be cooler, but... Annie's breeding is planned for the first of November - so it will be close!

I've posted what I call her Before and After pictures. The first photo is Annie at PCA just after the Parade of Champions. The following pictures are Annie in pet continental on the lure course. Before she runs I wet her down (it was 90 at 8 a.m. the day of her last successful run) and her coat stays kinked.

We have some fine tuning to do - if she catches the lure she stops - she figures she's caught it (and she has - duh ) but that's not how the test is run. If they keep the lure well ahead of her no problem - so maybe that's not for us to fix... But, since she loves skateboarders, cyclists, kitties and bumble bees I figured she'd love the lure, and she does.

It's a fun day - CAT is for all breeds and testing is often done before or after a Coursing event. Watching the site hounds run is pretty awesome and they (the site hound people) have been really welcoming.

Tabatha
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Olie

She is a perfect package! Impressive. She has a pretty dainty head. Most reds I see have somewhat of a larger head muzzle I suppose. Nice

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Quossum

How fun! She looks great, and I love how you caught her in the collection phase in that center photo.

I took my Borzoi--genuine sighthounds, mind you!--to a lure *test* one time. The people were apparently harried from too many people wanting tests, because they jiggled the line one time while Moxie happened to be looking the other way, of course she didn't chase it, and they were all, "NEXT!" My sputtering for "another chance" was ignored, and my lure coursing experience died there, after having lived for all of three seconds!

--Q

Spencer

The problem is, people bring dogs all the time that could care less - I should know... I have a greyhound who just watches it "run" away and turns his back like, "Oh well... maybe next time, right?" lol. This is the same dog that has tracked, jumped and caught a bird mid flight. Bags just don't do it for him!

The last coursing day I was at, a woman brought her (gorgeous) mutt to see if he would fun run, and he absolutely loved running... except he was having fun running along side HER, not even paying attention to the lure. More than one person told her that (along with a judge) and she just stood under one of the easy ups and complained that he didn't even get a chance, and was quite nasty about the judge. They gave her another chance and the same thing happened as the first time (and he stopped when she stopped), to which she blamed everyone else. lol

Spencer

I want to meet this gorgeous girl one day... I'm so sad I didn't seek her out in Wichita Falls (I think it was)!

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Spencer,

She was registered in Wichita Falls but finished the week -or 2 before! (at least I think that's the show...) We've had a great time together - traveling and showing and now hanging out with the lure/rally/obedience people- and she always seems to draw a crowd.

Certainly because she's so unusual for a red. Vibrant color with fabulous pigment/points. And very petite -with nice type. But probably more because she's SO wiggly friendly and loves loves loves attention. She's missing that aloof poodle attitude! On more than one occassion, when Annie was traveling with Kadie and Betty, they complained while they were trying to get the poodles ready there was a crowd at the set-up because of Annie. She could never be on a table out front because she thought she was the "Greeter".

At the practice/fun and title runs she's still a character. The last run - when she would have titled - she left me on the course with my mouth open as she trotted to the car and stood by the door! She was ready to go, it was hot and she was tired and she'd already run once! The Huntmaster coughed a laugh and said, "Honey (this is the South remember), looks like she's not planning on running again today..."

Little Twerp!

Aren't poodles the best!

spoowhisperer

She is just so so so beautiful. I study reds. Not that I have any expertise, because I certainly don't, but those beautiful heads and faces go straight to my heart.
Tell me more about her personality!

Spencer

Lol how funny!

And yes, poodles are the best... I say this as mine meanders up to me, chewing and smacking his lips in the most gleeful way. God knows what he ate, but I think it was a piece of toilet paper that he happy got ahold of this morning while feeling better.

ArreauStandardPoodle

I wish you and Annie luck getting her title. Hopefully you will find something somewhere before she is preggers, and can get that last leg. All the best! She looks like she is running like the wind. Maybe you should call one of her daughter's Mariah (remember the old song "They Call The Wind Mariah"?)

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CT Girl

I hope you and Anne get that title before she starts in her new role as mom. She sounds like a girl who knows her mind and when it is hot and she is tired she is done. Smart girl.