Chase!

Today we check in with three-year-young Chase — he was Larkspur in the Wildflower litter.

Chase lives with his canine day, Major (age 9.5 years!) and the Duncans. Lawrence retired in the past year or so and is now busier than ever doing things with the dogs.

Chase and Lawrence

Chase and Lawrence have been VERY busy — here is the list of his titles, pulled from BernerGarde!

WOWZA!

Lawrence emailed this morning saying they did FastCAT yesterday and are now at a Scentwork trial for the weekend. What a FUN life Chase has ❤️

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHASE!!!

Birthdays Continue

Isn’t this such a sweet photo? It is Daisy with the puppy formerly known as Clover…

We get this report from Lucy Clover King’s wonderful family:

“I can’t believe Lucy is 3!  She is still an integral part of our family.  The girls baked a birthday cake for her with all healthy, natural ingredients, and she ate it in one bite!  She still wakes up every day telling us it is the best day ever!  She is so sweet with our girls and doesn’t mind dress up at all.  We bought a cabin in Driggs two years ago, so she gets to spend even more time in the snow (that she LOVES, of course!).  She is always up for a hike or an adventure or a cuddle.  We are so grateful for her, thank you so much for sharing one of your amazing dogs with us.  She puts a smile on all of our faces every day!

Lucy ready to go for a walk on the canal by our home in Idaho Falls.

Lucy playing in the snow with Clara while we were looking for a Christmas Tree.

Lucy cuddling with Clara.

We call this her pretty sit - usually there’s a treat in the vicinity (or she thinks there is!).

Lucy waiting impatiently for her birthday cake at our cabin in Driggs.

Lucy having a play date with two Berners our friends have - they are brothers.

Lucy gathering huckleberries with the girls last summer.”

What an incredibly lucky girl — all of them! HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUCY!

Birthday Interruption

I will resume the birthday updates soon — I need to nudge a couple of Wildflower families and also do one for Pozy — but we have been showing since Thursday at the Missoula dog show so it has been busy.

Capella

Yesterday was especially fun.

Sparkle, Claire, and Capella

Sparkle was awarded first place in the Veterans Working Group, Claire finished her Rally Novice title, and Capella was Winners Bitch (but with only nine showing it was one short of the major she needs towards her championship). A fun day!

On Friday I showed Suzanne’s Sundance in obedience and we finished his CD (obedience title).

That gave Sundance the BMDCA Working Dog award, which requires a draft title and titles from at least two other performance events — he has tracking and now obedience. Very cool.

Today is the last day of the show — and the last show I will do this summer. Capella is starting to blow coat and so our summer will be all about staying home and training for fall — with one exception. Claire has a track in the local tracking test next weekend 🍀🙏🏽

And speaking of shows, congratulations are due for Alison and Sparkler Kiri.

New UD title (VERY HARD) and first UDX leg (EXTRA VERY HARD). Amazing and wonderful and all those kinds of words.

Thought for the day: Accomplishments are fun!

Happy Sunday to you.