Carol Mount started training agility in 1992 and is currently showing a Chinese Crested, MACH Louie-Louie, at the Championship level ; Her up and coming dog, Fusion, is in Excellent.
In the Picture on this page are some of Carol’s Dogs she has owned…. Family photos are rare sometimes!
Carol has titles in multiple agility venues, flyball and in obedience. Carol is an AKC and USDAA Judge. She has written several articles for canine magazines and newsletters including Clean Run and Basenji Bulletin. Carol has been nominated twice for Dog Writers Of America awards and has won the DWAA .
Louie is one of the top ranked Chinese Cresteds in Agility and Flyball, he has attended the AKC National Championships, the AKC Agility Invitationals, has been the #2 Agility crested for 3 years and is also the #2 Crested in flyball — and has a flyball ONYX to boot! You can view Louie’s page by selecting it above.
Always ready to work a challenge, Carol has trained and shown multiple “difficult” dogs to many titles, including a rescue Belgian Malinois (MACH Sega), Basenji Strider , Rescue Basenji Ginger, a Powderpuff Crested Theory and of course, LOUIE! She has also trained the Border Collie, Quest, that She and Paul ran.
Strider Basenji was the 1st Basenji to get the combination of AX & AXJ. He had pretty bad seperation anxiety and was just a dog that wanted to be loved; he did NOT want to Work for Love. Just love me was hit motto. His drive level was pretty low…… How many dogs can you think where you can use a pigs ear for motivation when working on an agility course….and be able to take it away??? Easily??? It took many tries, like 18, to get his CDX due to the seperation anxiety. Many times he was up out of the stay before I got out of the ring for out of sights. But I was determined and with Diane Bauman’s help, we got the CDX. I joke that Strider is the reason I became an AKC Agility Judge. I learned many of the rules through strider….. He tested many of them. My favorite Strider show moment was when he got the AXJ at the Turkey Cluster (when it was 2 rings in the Stadium building)… Long time ago! My favorite Strider story is documented in basenji101… Strider and the reporter…
Sega came to us from a Kennel Seizure in Update New York. All the dogs were neglected and Sega was covered from head to toe in poop when she was pulled out. Her paperwork said she was 3, but we thought maybe she was more like one based on her size. (Now that I have another Mal and it is maturing, I can see that maybe Sega was 3 when we got her….) Belinda Lang was the one that saw her potential and arranged for her to go to Diane Bauman to be rehomed. Diane is a great advocate of finding homes for rescue dogs and works diligently to find the right home for many rescues. I am lucky that Diane suggested Sega for me. Sega got her name from the Sega commercial that ran in the 1990s where a person would put their face right into the TV camera and yell SEGA. Since Sega likes to be in your face, the name just fit. Sega was always a very steady dog when she was active: While she was never “#1″ in anything, she was always near the top: she was in the top 25% at AKC Nationals many years in a row; she placed 4th place two times at the All-Star Agility Tournaments. One of my favorite memories of running Sega was when it was only She and Paulena Renne Hope’s TimeFlies! in Excellent JWW 24″. For a while, they were the only two dogs in that level and jump height. We were always second :-) and I remember being excited that we were only like 8 seconds off TimeFlies! time :-)
Ginger was the Basenji that lived up to all the Bad Basenji stories you hear about. We got her as a rescue from the SPCA… early on, Carol & Paul had to learn to make her move off couch etc. without getting bit. Carol read a wonderful book on how to be boss and quickly learned several secrets. Paul had never had a dog before — but had to learn to move the G-Dog without getting bit so we suited him several times in his winter coat and oven mitts to get her moved and let her know it was going to happen no matter what. Later we learned the benefits of basenji-talk – doing what basenjis do other dogs to get what the Basenji wants….. like: “earthquake” : pester the dog till it moves….(shake the pillow till she moves), What I have is more intersting than what you have (till you get what I have then I get what I really want which is what YOU have), Food, Food, Food. At the ripe old age of 7, Ginger decided she wanted to work and started her agility career. I showed her like 1x a year for 3 years to get her CD. She finished that title at the ripe old age of 11. If you work at it long enough, they will do it….
Quest was our foray into trying to get more competitve in agility with a Border Collie. But right after I got her, I got pregnant… that wasn’t so bad but the pregnancy didn’t work out and I got super depressed and Quest’s training suffered as I worked through depression. Later, I decided to start up a dog training school and again, she suffered….. Quest never got good consistent training. She was capable of being a 200 dog in obedience (I was not…) and Her temperment was amazing; she was a great dog where the timing just never worked out for her to be trained well. I apoligize to my dear girl. She came up lame around age of 5 and we battled that issue till her death. It impacted her speed and was most evident at flyball. Quest ADORED flyball and had an amazing box turn. At age of 7.5, Quest collapsed on a Monday after an agility show (where she ran Novice Preferred with a guest handler and did Nov JWW run in under 20 sec!) and we discovered she had Hemgiocarcoma. Xrays showed it had spread to her lungs and the difficult decision was made to let her go. I still cry when I think of her because she was such a good, patient dog.
Theory, my first Crested (a powderpuff) is the dog most people never knew I had. We only had her for 2 years in which timeframe she earned the NA had had shown some in USDAA. This was well before the days of JWW and FAST. I picked her because she liked to run and I figure I could always teach her to come…. She was very very prey driven. She played one or two times at JRT racing matches and would scream for the lure. Once at agility training, she crawled out of a 3″ space in car window to go and chase chickens…….It was that prey drive that killed her. She started climbing our fence to chase squirrels and before we got a fix for the issue, she had climbed out again and got hit by a car.
In Memory:
- Basenji CH Strider AX,AXJ,AD,CDX,
UAG1,etc ; - Basenji Ginger OA,OAJ,NAP, NJP,CD,JC etc
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BC CH Quest MX MXJ CD AD and More;
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Crested Theory NA
