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This forum has been so quiet recently... what is everyone up to and working on with their dogs?

Bert had a lame summer with a toe injury/infection and eventual amputation. We only got to play in...

Yay! Congrats, how fun to do all this X2!!!!

This is a great perspective. Sometimes I think we expect our breeders (and our dogs) to be perfect. And I hope we get to a day where our dogs ARE perfectly healthy....but compare it to people! How...

I’m in love with him. I’m biased towards the black dogs, but he is such a handsome, perfect yella guy

IMO, no I wouldn’t do that. I want the puppies leash I’m my hand so I can address any pulling, sniffing etc without nagging the trained dog.

Just do one leash in each hand, a dog on each side of...

Wow. Beautiful shot!

Awesome! I bet she had a blast in the versatility class, it sure looks like fun:)

Awesome! Congratulations!!

Congrats! Your girls are too cute!

We won our first big ribbon, LOL!!

Couldn’t be more proud of my little dude. This weekend was our second weekend showing in both Utility B and Open B. Today, Bert WON Utility with a 198.5 and...

Fun stuff! We are stuck doing obedience right now, as it’s below 0 degrees with a foot of snow and ice in the ground! You’re weather looks MUCH better!

Congratulations!!! That is such a cool accomplishment! Too bad it’s not a bit closer to you, would love to cheer you guys on!

We have started a new adventure. Bert now has his first weekend of showing in UB/OB on the same day, his first UDX leg and his first OTCH points under his belt :)

He is doing so well, but we are...

Excellent! Your young girls are going to be a blast!

Fun!! Sounds like she had an awesome weekend!

I think it would be very challenging training/showing two dogs of the same age. BUT - you get to do all the fun young dog stuff x2. It will be so fun...

Thanks Annette! I appreciate it!

You totally hit the nail on the head - not accepting mistakes (like crooked fronts) even if everything proceeding it was perfect. This is something I've FINALLY...

Congratulations on bringing home such a handsome little dude! He's going to be so much fun!

Well, that is kind of a big generalization. I'd say that many of the field trial dogs of today are the happy medium you are talking about. Not sure how many field trials you've been to, but nutty,...

I have to agree with Annette - the reason that goldens are kicking lab butt in obedience is due to the # competing. There simply aren't many labs showing in obedience. I live in a very busy area for...

Congrats! That is awesome! Have fun in open, and let us know how the new command discrimination is going for people at trials. We are on an obed. break for the summer so I'm anxious to hear people's...

I am SO proud of this little dog. Today Bert earned his third Utility leg, giving him his UD title. I lost my obedience mojo last year and decided to dig in and get back to trialing last November. In...

OFA accepts EIC results from GenSol. Not sure what type of vetting a lab must go through to be approved by OFA... But I used GenSol to confirm what I already "knew" (Clear by parentage) and results...

I've used GenSol... pretty easy to work with and fast results.

I also recommend PawPrint Genetics or using the lab at U of MN, who developed the test for EIC.

I can only answer the field side of this...but yes, its typical to have "started dogs" sell for 3-10K. These might be dogs intended to be trial dogs but they aren't going to work out for whatever...

So proud of my young guy. He earned his CDX the end of December so we started to put together all of the utility pieces a couple months ago. Well yesterday he finished his Graduate Open title, and...