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Welcome to Wendy's Blog!

Wendy Beard: Mother, Dog Trainer, Agilty Competitor, AAC judge, Engineer, Photographer.

Wendy lives in Carp, Ontario, just outside Canada's capital.

Category Archives: agility

Agility Engineer

Not me – but a girl called Jessica
I discovered this while surfing around the internet, following a link from the agilitynerd blog
She has a couple of good rants on there, well worth a read!
http://agilityengineer.blogspot.com/search/label/Rant

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A Good Start

Our first trial of the New Year is over and already Ivan has earned himself a couple more titles. At Morningstar in Kingston this weekend he earned his Master Jumpers and Master Snooker titles!
Tyra pulled off Qs in the first two standard runs of the day to earn her Gold Award of Merit (50 Standard...

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Looking Back on 2009

2009 was a good year for us competition-wise
Ivan started competing in agilty at the end of April, just before his 2nd birthday. Between then and the end of November, he earned 15 agility titles in three venues (AAC, CKC and AKC) plus 2 Rally novice titles (CKC & AKC)
I am absolutely blown away by everything...

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What Do Dogs see?

It was once thought that dogs see only in black and white. However, this appears not to be true and they can distiguish between some colours.

So it would appear that:
WE see RED, THEY see pale yellow
WE see ORANGE, THEY see pale yellow
WE see BRIGHT YELLOW, THEY see pale yellow
WE see GREEN, THEY see pale yellow...

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Fun Match

Took 4 of the beasties out to RedGate for a fun match today. They all did pretty well! Ivan’s coming along nicely. Indy’s still a bit of an airhead.
It was cold. About -14C during the day but the sun helped make it feel warmer than it was.

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A good weekend

First agility trial of the year. Morningstar in Kingston.
Tyra didn’t get off to a good start on Friday. Took down bars and avoided the tyre. Dropped her to 22″ specials the rest of the weekend and she came home with 11 Qs!

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