Mom and Dad took me, Tucker and Logan to Staten Island today to have our picture taken. Tucker and I sat nicely for Nicole but you should have seen Logan. He'd sit for a second and then be up. Finally, they got him to stay in one place long enough to get a few shots.

Then the fun began, taking a pictures of all three of us together. You should have seen Mom and Nicole trying to get the three of us either all together sitting or lying down. When Tucker and Logan were next to one another they wanted to roll around and play. When they asked me to lie down, I would roll over to get my belly rubbed. It was like a 3 ring circus. Mom, Dad and Nicole persisted and finally got a few good shots.

Lastly, we had our picture taken with Mom. At least then she could hold on to Logan to keep him from getting up. Nicole even got a great shot of Mom with Logan. After about 2 hours it was over and there were enough good photos to satisfy Mom and Dad.

Let's see if they will ever try this again.

Well, Mom blew it for Tucker on Saturday. He was clean on his JWW run right up until the last jump when Mom slowed down and said Yes...of course Tucker slowed down and looked at Mom and knocked the last bar. That run would have given Tucker his NJP title. He had another chance on Sunday, but knocked a bar mid-run. His runs were good, he usually takes out more bars. Maybe next run he'll title.

As for me, I had a nice Standard run on Saturday but I too knocked a bar. On Sunday I had a clean JWW run, but was over time by 7 seconds and I had one refusal on my Standard run. The good news is that Mom was so pleased with my weave pole performance. I had no problem with the weave poles on any of my 4 runs. I guess all that weave pole practice this week paid off. Mom had me running through weave poles every day that it did not rain. I didn't mind since my reward for a successful weaves was string cheese...my favorite.

This weekend was a big improvement over my last trial. We are still getting used to running in Excellent. No Qs is disappointing, but we are improving.

I had my first Excellent JWW and Excellent Agility runs today. Didn't go so well. I knocked 2 bars in JWW and popped out of the weaves. Mom got me back in but that was enought for a refusal. My standard run was a bust. I popped out of the weaves and decided there was something good to sniff. Mom ended the run there and took me off the course. Oh well, better luck next time. I'll try again at the November trial.

Saturday was a bust. Tucker and I went 0 for 6 on runs. Sunday was a differnt story. It was raining and the field was muddy. My first run of the day was Open Jumpers around 8:30 in the rain and I Q'd, with a first place and it gave me my Open Jumpers Preffered title. Mom was very excited.

I ran Open Standard in the mud around midday. I had a refusal (Mom was in the wrong place) and my time was a little long, so Mom assumed I did not Q, therefore she never checked the results sheet. Well, on Monday when she received my results, it turned out I had Q'd in Open Standard, with a first place  and that gave me my Open Agility Preferred title....a banner weekend.

Mom keeps saying I'm a 'mudder', whatever that means.