Video of Bri and Magoo Earning Their Last Legs for Companion Dog

Not perfect runs by far.   Bri had the best run of the two, and a good run for her pinkness.   Magoo was a bit distracted by the horses in the beginning, as you can tell, because he only hits one auto sit (a sure sign that the dog is distracted).   He stayed with me nicely during the heels, though a couple of times on leash there was some tension in the leash mostly in the about turns.

Very proud of them, it's been a hot long summer so far.  Magoo got his three legs in six trials total.   Bri got her two legs in 2008.   I think that took 5 trials then, before she "turned on".   Then this time it took 3 to get her last leg two years later.  I will never ever stop in the middle again.   It took a lot of work to get her back.



What's next?   Well I would like to train and enter my own dog, Boris, into the UKC.   I may take Magoo into Open.   Finally now that I have done a large dogs, I would love to take a toy dog into the ring:)

Next directly is to get my application into the IACP for my CDT:)

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Two Brand Spanking New Companion Dogs

Introducing Magoo CD!!   Magoo earned his third leg at yesterday afternoon at the Penobscott trials in Cumberland Maine.   Magoo is a Great Dane (male one and a half years old) that we borrow from a client to compete with.   Almost no work is done with him at home, but he comes to daycare 5 times a week.   About a half an hour a week day has gone into maintaining his training between trials.   Magoo's first two legs had been earned in May at the Vacationland trials.   Magoo was trained and handled by Robin Rubin of Mannerly Mutts.

Good job big boy!!!

Introducing Bri CD!!   Bri is owned by some friends next door, who allow us to borrow her for competition.   Bri is an American Staffordshire female of six years old.   At home she doubles as sleeping beauty with a lot of couch time, unless there is a pond around.   Bri was almost on the same schedule as Magoo, except she was dropped if time was run out of during the day:(  Even so, we managed to pull it off this weekend.

Robin Rubin of Mannerly Mutts trained and handled Bri at the trials.   Robert Rubin handled Bri during the stay portion of the trial.

Good job teams!!!  Don't see much of either breed in obedience competitions.   It was awesome being out there with these great dogs.

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2ND Leg on Day 2 of Vacationland Dog Show

I inadvertently hit a future goal today, when Magoo completed his second leg with a 188.5.   It did seem to work better to NOT tire Magoo out in the morning.  Who knows though, the spirits of dog training were with us this warm afternoon.

Tomorrow it's going to change a little as Bri will be with us, and my friend, Missy, will handle Bri during the long stays.   I was going to perhaps have Missy handle Magoo if he had his two legs, but he is slightly distracted when we line up for the stays, and Bri won't be that distracted.  Plus Bri is smaller by more than 50 pounds.   I have never tried Bri with a different handler.   Of course, this is all assuming we pass the first part of Novice for Bri.

Magoo was definately more acclimated to the environment today, which was a huge help.   A conformation judge ran up to us, and was disappointed that both of Magoo's ears weren't standing.   He is an attractive dog both physically and temperamentally non the less!!

So proud of Magoo today.   But I would be anyway, he is an awesome dog.   I did not have a helper today, and I wanted to concentrate on just getting our leg.   So sadly, I have no video to show you what a ten point difference would look like.   Hopefully, tomorrow, Magoo will be in good form again, and we can show you the best performance that I am capable of right now:)

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First Leg for Magoo

Magoo's first leg video:



I had tired him out a bit more with exercise yesterday.   He was way distracted by the grass and the different dog smells in the beginning.   We completely missed our first auto sit.   Our last leashed autosit almost gave me a heart attack, as you can see him start to down and then catch himself. 

His heeling was better on his first trial where we disqualified.   So I am not going to exercise him as much before we go to our third trial today.   This will be Magoo's only fourth time in the ring.   I don't necessarily have a friend going with me (my friend Cindy was assisting yesterday), so I don't know whether I will get the video or not.   We will see.   Gotta get ready now, I will be leaving for the second day of Vactionland's dog show in 45 minutes.

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DRU's July Jackie CD

Jack is the Doberman on the rock on Long Sands beach:)

He's our personal Calender boy of July and August 2009!!








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