Shopping with Nari

Nari has been feeling a little left out lately, Mondays are conformation class with Alpha, Wednesdays I take Starbuck to her therapy dog visit followed by flyball practice. So I decided to take Nari shopping with me today and she was so happy that she was smiling during most of the trip. She got tons of treats from everyone in the store and was talking to all of the Great Danes from the rescue. Here is a picture of her next to this huge dinosaur toy. 

USDAA trial photos

Got the photos from our first USDAA trial in the mail today! Here is a link to some of them:
http://steffiandaaron.shutterfly.com/usdaatrialmarch2010/4


And here are a couple of my favorites! 

Our first USDAA trial

We had our very first USDAA trial this weekend at the Clearview Horse Farm in Shelbyville, TN. Nari was excited to see all of the horses and had to yell 'hello' to everyone every morning when we arrived. We were quite popular - lots of people came up to us to ask about her and comment on how cute she was. 

We loved that USDAA is faster paced than UKC and the competition is really excellent, lots of border collies and shelties. We did quite well for our first competition - three Q's, four 1st places and two 2nd places. Nari had fun with the courses and did an excellent job of staying with me despite the fact that I kept pausing to pull up my pants on Saturday (which probably cost us at least one Q because we were over time). Here are the results:

 3/13/2010
              Starters Standard - 16 Inch - Judge: Seth Dunn
              Distance: 141 yards  SCT: 68.00 seconds
              Score: 6.39 (NQ)  Time: 74.39 seconds  2nd Place

              Starters Snooker - 16 Inch - Judge: Seth Dunn
              Score: 16 (NQ)  Time: 35.35 seconds  2nd Place

              Starters Jumpers - 16 Inch - Judge: Seth Dunn
              Distance: 102 yards  SCT: 30.00 seconds
              Score: 3.69 (NQ)  Time: 33.69 seconds  1st Place

   3/14/2010
              Starters Jumpers - 16 Inch - Judge: Seth Dunn
              Distance: 104 yards  SCT: 31.00 seconds
              Score: 0.00 (Q)  Time: 27.43 seconds  1st Place

              Starters Snooker - 16 Inch - Judge: Seth Dunn
              Score: 42 (Q)  Time: 52.11 seconds  1st Place

              Starters Standard - 16 Inch - Judge: Seth Dunn
              Distance: 147 yards  SCT: 70.00 seconds
              Score: 0.00 (Q)  Time: 67.68 seconds  1st Place