Bedlam in Bishop

Okay, Okay, so I have been a total blogging slacker! This blogging thing is hard to keep up!! I’ll try to be timelier in the future. But since we are going to another tournament this weekend I figured I would at least try to blog about the last one first!

Seek, Hostel, Drastic, Stare - 15.699

 

X formed late last year and we have been slowly trying to integrate all of our green dog into line ups and tweaking things here and there. One of our main goals when we started X was to make sure that each and every dog reached their full potential. We practiced hard all year long and we were finally able to put together an “A” team in Bishop. Stare ran on a team for the very first time and did awesome! Drastic ran in the pack for the very first time and was as solid as they get. Drastic only has eyes for her mom’s arms and hands (LOL!). Hostel came back with a vengeance after sitting out for 8 months while I tweaked a few things. We still have a ton of things to work on and fine tune. We realized just how much more work we had to do when we finally put these four dogs together. But we are excited, hopeful and look forward to continuing to improve our dogs and line ups. But with all that being said we were very proud to say we broke in to the 15s for the first time!!! Our line up was Seek (9” HD), Hostel, Drastic and Stare. Our best time of the weekend being a 15.699!! Woo hoo!!! This for sure would not have been possible without Gina’s mad box loading skills!! Gina is the BEST BOX LOADER EVER!!! She takes her job very serious and is always on top of things. It’s a very exciting time for us. Our hard work is finally paying off and each goal and milestone has been so much fun to share with this amazing group of people and dogs. We also have a few other green dogs that are showing tons of potential to make it to the A team!

Speaking of green dogs showing potential!!! Dragon had an amazing debut weekend in Bishop. He is a 14 month old whippet and from the day Steph brought him home we all knew he was special. We had been around a few whippets before and had never seen a whippet with this much drive, work ethic, personality, spunk and not to mention SPEED!! Match that with Steph’s amazing training skills and dedication to make this a positive experience for Dragon and what do you get? You get a debut weekend that people only dream about! Dragon’s best official time on the clock in singles was a 3.645. His best line-to-line time was a 3.559!! Go DRAGON!! X is really really looking forward to adding Dragon to our A team! Congratulations Steph and Dragon!!

Replay, Later and Psycho all ran on a team for the first time too! They were all very good boys and did awesome! Psycho took to passing like a pro and had no issues and carried his ball back the whole tournament! Later is going to be a great HD addition to our team and we cant wait to see what kind of times the little guy can post. The ever handsome Replay did great! He ran some awesome times and also passed like a pro. We look forward to also adding Replay to our A team line up. He is just as fast as he is handsome!

Bishop is just one of those tournaments that everyone talks about. Lickety Splits did an awesome job hosting. The venue is awesome, the town is awesome, the FOOD in town is awesome and then going to the lake after is so much fun! The dogs love it! We also would not have had such a great time if it were not for help of our Bay Area BFFs (Tracy and Leslie) and Tooie. You guys ROCK! Thank you so much for all your help! We are so Xcited for what the future might bring. We just love this crazy game of flyball!