Eden is in Charge

...even if she is the smallest.

Flyball Team Tourney!!!

Kastle ran in his first tournament on the team It was HOT (111* with heat index, 140* on the pavement by where we were parked), and he did great. I am SO PROUD! We have worked so hard and it was such a miserable, humid, disgusting day and he did his best. This was our first and last team run with Fly by Night because we are moving. I will miss this team and how far they've helped me come! There's a slow-mo section where you can see him sllliidddeeee into the box (and knock Lies crooked) and that is why he has to wear all of that gear! He is averaging about 4.5ish seconds with 7-10 foot passes (not because he can't pass, but because the dog he is passing into had an owner that did not want closer passes).

Anyway, video:

What happens when you miscalculate your start time...

Family Photos

I need to stop trying for group shots LOL They are always a disaster! It was extremely hot, extremely humid and I waited as late as I could for it to cool off and still have sunlight.

The outtakes...

The keepers.

Ike & Kastle

Ike has been sold, these will be the last photos of the half-brothers together :'(

Ike at 3 years, Kastle at 1 year:

The first time they have played together, really run and play, since Kastle smashed his teeth out.

The rest of the photos of the two of them together are HERE.

Ike will be greatly missed.

Tug Time

Eden has started to enjoy tugging just for the sake of tugging - including tugging with Kastle, which is soooo cute!

The rest of that cuteness is HERE.

We are using Finn's Kastle-drive to get Finny to care about toys and tugging, it's working really well so far!

 The rest of the Kastle/Finn pics are HERE.

Kastle loves toys :-D

Also, Kastle now has a little brother - an Australian Kelpie, named Limit:

Dremel!

Getting back into the habit of dremeling the dogs' nails. I used to do it with my other dogs and have failed to get into it with Eden and Kastle. Then, when I decided it was time, the Dremel battery was dead, not available to buy in any store. Well, it finally came in the mail so I got down to it this week. I'm very pleased with how lovely they look.

 His floofs are awesome!

The rest of those pics are HERE.

Flyball with Slammers

Since we were over on the East side of the state anyway, we stopped to visit Slammers during their training. Finn's breeder is on the Slammers team so that was neat for her to see him and us to see his dad run. There were also a slew of amazing puppies for me to Squee over. Lots of nice people and fast, FAST dogs to watch! I got a lot of help with Kastle. I now have a new way of starting him that feels much more natural for me and him and we are both more comfortable with it. He was a little flaky but new building, new people etc etc. Plus, Craig ran him a couple of times to show me how to do the things I need to work on. I also need to work on dragging my tug, not pulling it up last minute and also his mattress hitting - saves the shoulders but he needs to practice hitting it. He avoided it and took me out behind the knees and I totally wiped out one time. Luckily, I sort of cushioned off of Kastle and didn't get hurt really at all. :-) Had a GREAT time and learned a lot!!!