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MAC, Minnesota Agility Club, courses are uploaded

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Adobe is complaining about the CutePDF generated files.  I hope they work OK.

Excellent Std

Excellent JWW

I’ve often mentioned to my friends why sometimes it hard to “train” Zuri the basenji.   She is not like the other basenjis I’ve trained.  I’ve talked about her and the Aframe and treats and the going to house and treats.   She WANTS her treats.   She’ll make a big deal for her food and treats including running the other dogs off.   But eat it fast?  Lets see.  Lets have a Fourth of July Eating contest.  With just part of a roll.

Meanwhile Zuri is making progress in agility training…

I am the one training her.   But wanted to see how she’d work for Paul.  This is first time he “handled” her in class. Click to view

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1477536814977

Fusion, Louie and I were playing flyball at the Coconut Classis this past weekend.  The Coconut Classic (aka “the Nut”)  is a flyball tournament held every June by the Fur Fun flyball team.  And Hey — Fur Fun Flyball is OUR Team too!

We usually have a secondary theme at the Nut  so people can dress up and so we can just have a lot of “nutty” fun over the weekend.  The Nut theme this was “Nuts in Wonderland.”

This year was great.  It was Fusion’s first time back doing flyball since the CanAm in Oct 2009.   Fusion did OK.  Little slower than before but she has to make sure it was ok to pass the other dog.  If you watched her ears you can see her making decision to pass.   She should just stay at one speed but she doesn’t.  If she was at same speed, there would be no time for her ears to be like radars.  Her carefulness on passing was finally getting better at end of show.  Fusion’s Team did fantastic and took 1st place in Multi 1.  Louie was on vets and ran part time.  Part-time wasn’t because of his health. He was looking good.   Just that our  team has LOTS of dogs and sometimes you have to share a spot.   His vet team took second to the OTHER FF Vet team. So vets were 1-2.  Cool.  Actually Awesome considering the team was running the show!

The Nut has always been the largest Flyball show on the east coast — and one of the craziest.  The Nut has also, in the past,  donated some of the raffle proceeds to great causes.

This year, the Nut had another twist and  FurFun’s Team Captain Julie challenged clubs to help raise money for the 2010 cause:  National Canine Cancer Fund (NCCF).   Julie recommended NCCF  as the cause because so many of the FF team members have been impacted by canine cancer.  Julie has had dogs with lymphoma and Hemangiosarcoma.   And at this show, two of FurFuns dogs that were racing in the lanes are cancer survivors.  Jammer, the fastest Boston in the world and height dog for the Mult-1 team, has survived Stage 2 MastCell.  Louie, my chinese crested,  running on a veterans team, is now 19 months past his initial diagnosis of Stage IVa lymphoma (he just finished his second round of chemo treatment).

Before the show and during the show,  Teams  sold treats, Tugs, carcitures, pendants and other goods to help raise funds.  FF once again gave portion of raffle  proceeds to the cause.  On Sunday at the awards ceremony, the total was $7000!!! WOW.  A great start to help kick Canine Cancer in the nuts!!!

THANK YOU!!!!   To help make the Nut extra special, I approached my favorite Dog Food and Treat friends, FreshPet, to see if they would help sponsor the show by providing some goodies for the teams.   I use FreshPet food and treats for Louie (I am very careful what I feed him now that he has cancer).  But  their treats are GREAT for any dog.  Lots of Agility trainers are using them for training treats.  Especially the ones that look like little meatballs.

Here are some pics of the FreshPet goodies the the Nut. Most went into the welcome bags we gave each team.  One was item for raffle.

Fresh Pet Raffle:  Really cool stuff!!!

And here is Louie with his Treats.  I admit.  I just carry the bag “as is” into the flyball ring with me!  That way I never run out of treats for the Lou!!

Here is an article that was on NY Times today (June 16th)

Interesting article on some old AT&T/”Bell” history that was on the NYTimes site today The ‘Learning Knights’ of Bell Telephone

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/opinion/16davis.html?scp=1&sq=bell&st=cse

What I got from this article is that learning and experiencing many things is a critical tool for thinking out of the box.  That we shouldn’t stay focused on one area.    It explains, in a very broad sense,  why  liberal arts educations are so useful.

To me…..What this means to dogs sports is that we have to stay well rounded, studying MANY things and look for insights.  Even outside of the dog sport world…..

I added “Easy Access” to some articles I’ve written.

You can get to web page or PDF of the articles from the link called “My Articles” Or you can go here

http://www.jumpfast.net/?page_id=700/

I need to see if I can go back and find those “old” articles and get them online.