Monday, April 12, 2010

WOW! What a weekend

WOW...that is all I can say right about now. I think we are all still in shock. Now that Sagira's first AKC trial is over we are all just SO proud of her. Sagira did amazing this weekend. She had six runs (two standard agility and two jumpers with weaves) each day. Last I left off, you knew she qualified in her first four and had two more to go with the chance to earn two new titles this weekend. Well....drum roll please....

SHE DID IT! Sagira pulled through even though she was tired by the end of the day and qualified in both of her last runs. That means Sagira is one of the first mixed breeds in the country to earn a title with the AKC. She was the first mixed breed to earn a title within our training club. We are SO proud of our baby girl. She now has her NA (Novice Agility) and NAJ (Novice Agility Jumpers) titles. She is now moving up to the open field and will be competing with some of the more advanced dogs.

Sagira brought home two new title ribbons, four 1st place ribbons, one 2nd place ribbon and one third place ribbon. (photo coming soon)

Here is Sagira's title run Sunday morning where she earned her NAJ title. She was moving pretty slow, but still came in before course time and had no faults.



Here is a picture of Sagira with the judge presenting her new title ribbon from her title run and a representative from the AKC.

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Here is the video of Sagira's standard course title run on Sunday evening. She came in first place and was the only one from her class to get a Q. The timer messed up but she was well below course time so instead of making her rerun it and risking the chance of not having a Q again we just took course time. This is the last thing on the third day so she was slow moving, but still came through and got her Q.



Picture of Sagira with her judge for her standard run presenting her new title ribbon.

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Needless to say, Sagira got to go to the store and pick out a big ol bag of toys today.

15 comments:

  1. CONGRATS! WOW -- are you ever good! Where are you going to put your beautiful ribbon? I am proud to know you, my friend!

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  2. We are so proud of you, Sagira, and we know your Mom and Dad are too. Outstanding performance - congratulations from all of us.

    Woos - Phantom, Thunder, and Ciara

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  3. How smart and cute is she? Too smart and cute! Send me an email through my blog giving me the details on where to send all of the Coke caps for the rewards. I'll be MORE than happy to send them to you. I wish I had known about this long ago. My gosh, I drink oodles of diet Coke and would love to help rescue. Just point me in the right direction!

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  4. Very proud.. You will have to put the ribbon in proud of place.. HUgs GJ xx

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  5. Congratulations my furiend. What accomplishments. You are the exact opposite of my sister and that is a good thing! I'll let her know about the title/toy correlation and see if anything changes
    Twinkie

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  6. Way to GO!!! We're so proud of you!
    Tail wags,
    Storms

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  7. THAT is SOOOOOO pawesome!

    Khongrats on such a inkhredible achievement!

    Hugz&Khysses,
    Khyra

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  8. WOW!! Congrats Sagira!! You did a really great job - we are super impressed! And we like that you were going a bit slower in those videos - because we thought you looked really fast - you must have been like super fast if that was a little slower!

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  9. I knew it, Sagira!
    Congratulations!
    Kisses and hugs
    Lorenza

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  10. Congratulations Sagira! You did GREAT! We were so proud watching your videos and cheering you on (even though it was already after the fact!). You are a Super Star of Agility!

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  11. Hurray! Congratulations!!! Both novice titles in one weekend at your first ever AKC trial and the first mixed-breed trial ever! That is all so amazing! You guys did a fabulous job!

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  12. Go Q Dog, Go!!!!! Congratulations Sagira!!! So proud of you!!! You are so amazing and fun to watch and we are all here so super impressed and knew you could do it. We are beaming right now.

    Much love, Woof,
    Josie and Blues

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  13. Wow, I am so impressed! You're amazing, and have a great smile:)

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xoxo
Sagira