Chasing MACH

Raygen is entered in the AKC Agility trial. He did really great on Friday in Standard and earned 12 points. Jumpers with Weaves started out great until he went into the weaves. "Oh, no" I though, "He is shutting down." At the corner of my eye I saw a loose dog on the outside of the ring gates and it was.... Ryker..... by then Raygen had popped out of the weaves to say hi to him and off course at that was our NQ. However we got to finish the course and I learned not to put my dogs in a friends X-Pen that I don't know how to lock. Heehee!Saturday we had a great Jumper run and he again earned some points. Then we got to do Standard and me being anchious that he would run into the tunnel trap called him to early and made him refuse a jump. Wished for that intelligent disobedience at that point. We went on and he did some great weaves and got to the table and then realized that the poor Raygen had to go poop, NOW!!!. I scooped him up and he got to finish on the other side of the fence. Again lesson learned, no feeding bones before trials. All fiber and chicken and skin.

USDAA Trial April 26th and 27th

I entered this trial with some high expectations from both Raygen and Ryker. This does not mean that I won't have fun or get mad at them for not performing the way I wished.Raygen earned his first leg in PIII Standard and had a great run in PIII Jumpers, however handler error cost us the run.I only needed one PII Gambler leg and one PII Snooker leg to get his Versatility Title PD II. Gamblers was a breeze. We did chute to dogwalk (with a tunnel "trap") and to my great surprise he took the dog walk. Without going into more details.... my timing was perfect, I was approaching the first gamble obstacle when the buzzed rang. Tire, tunnel, which was under the A-Frame, jump, jump. Really no big deal unless he would not take the tunnel. He did great and we only had Snookers to go. Last class of Sunday, with the great insight from my friend Cynthia, he ran an almost perfect course. There was a little slowing down when I had to disappoint him not to let him go into a tunnel. But that was only for a few seconds since the tunnel came after that. What a good boy!!!Raygen is the #1 Australian Cattle Dog in Utah at this time. He is 1 of 13 to hold a PD II title in the country.

Rylie Monster

Rylie was bottle fed by her foster dad for 2 weeks until they found a Rottweiler bitch that had some puppies and was able to be a mommy to Rylie. After filling out an adoption application I was contacted when she was 6 weeks old and told that the owner of the Rottweiler is getting rid of the puppies and she had to go, too. Ugh! She was way to young. She came to me on a rainy day. Oh my, was she cute, but she was sleeping, too. Little did I know that this little girl was going to turn my life upside down.

Danielle's LiL' Dude aka Raygen

This picture is of Raygen as he is coming out of the Humane Society

to meet Rylie for the first time

Nickname: Angel
Rescued at 4 month old from Rancho Coastal Humane Society
Born: 4-25-04
Australian Cattle Dog (red)

Rylie-Floribel aka Rylie

This picture is of her only two weeks old. Her mother was dumped at a vet while being in labor. Rylies 6 brothers, sisters and her mother died due to complications of larbor, leaving her an orphan.

Nickname: Princess
Rescued at 6 weeks old from Help For Homeless Pets in CA
Born: 1-17-03
Blue Australian Cattle Dog