Maggie, her little sister, Haley and I went to Wag It Training Center for yet another fun and eventful weekend of Rally obedience! I have to say that the best parts of doing Rally is the great friends we have met and also of the great times I have with my dogs both on and off the Rally course! We just love road trips and ‘hoteling it’ 🙂 Just me and my girls…the hotel where we stay, has a HUGE front field and you can walk all the way to the ocean..here’s the girls just soaking up some nice, warm sun rays with a little ocean breeze coming our way…
Maggie was entered in both Veterans class and I decided to bump her up to Level 2. She has been working on her Excellent title in Level 1 but I wanted to see if she could handle the longer, tougher Level 2 courses. And guess what, she did very well! With three consecutive qualifying runs with scores of 209, 207 and 204(best possible score 210) Maggie earned her RL2!!! And to top that off, she also was working on her Excellent title in Veterans class where she needed 3 more qualifiers to finish that…and she did it with scores of 210, 204 and 208! And even got another Veterans qualifier after that scoring a 205! I never thought I’d move her up out of Level 1, thinking the longer courses may be too much for her but she managed quite well! So, the next trial, Maggie just may try her “paw” at Level 3 and show the world that yes, indeed, Tripawds ROCK on! 🙂 (shhhh, don’t tell the quadpawds though that sitting IS tough on me).
Oh and one more VERY important award that Maggie earned….she got high scoring Level 2A dog on Saturday and was awarded the “Logan Legacy Award”! This award is in honor of a dear Golden friend that recently died of melanoma. Logan was only 6 years old and was the Service Dog to a friend of mine that started with Rally with Logan at the same place and time that I started Maggie. It was very fitting and a tear jerker for Maggie to earn this award from another dog who was stricken with cancer and taken from this world far, far too soon. The bag to the left of Maggie in this photo has a picture of Logan on it and it was filled with goodies for Mags. She much enjoyed them Logan! We know you were looking down on us this weekend…we missed you and thought of you often…
Until next time….keep on hoppin’!
Tracy & Maggie