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Post by Hofmeister on Oct 22, 2016 11:59:33 GMT
Well the season is more or less over.
Our tally is 6 places, and 3 wins qualifying up out of two classes along the way, two excellent certificates/qualifications. We have enough points to qualify for, and entered the National championships, and been invited to trial for the South East & Anglia regional team for Crufts 2017.
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Post by Humph on Oct 22, 2016 12:02:54 GMT
Pretty good results. Well done.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2016 13:03:14 GMT
Well done. Will you take up the invitation to trial?
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Post by Hofmeister on Oct 22, 2016 16:48:43 GMT
Well done. Will you take up the invitation to trial? Yes, I'll treat it as a free training session. |
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Post by hobbit on Oct 23, 2016 12:17:14 GMT
>>Jesus, really? Now the allotment world I do know about. It is espionage, sabotage and subterfuge at an unbelievable level.
Tell me about it! - last year "somebody" added weedkiller to all my rainwater butts that i used to water-up with! ;-((
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Post by Humph on Oct 23, 2016 15:43:58 GMT
Blimey Hobbit, that's worthy of an Inspector Barnaby investigation ! What if you'd given some of that water to a dog or something? Really quite unfunny.
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Post by Hofmeister on Oct 23, 2016 15:57:47 GMT
Hey in my local allotment where I used to live, shotguns and a police siege ensued after one of the tenants went round collecting al the slugs and snails and throwing them over his rival allotment.
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Post by Humph on Oct 23, 2016 16:39:31 GMT
I've never eaten a marrow, not that I'm aware of anyway. People who have allotments grow them don't they? I'd be tempted if you could grow coconuts, bit partial to a slice of coconut. In Italy, you can buy them from street vendors, that and water melon.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2016 17:03:07 GMT
You may have done so unknowingly, but you must have eaten marrow. Its just in so many pies and pasties, for a start.
In Rio, as you must remember, one can buy a fresh coconut from a street vendor, still in its green husk and stored in ice, who will immediately hack a hole in it and jam in a straw. The watermelons are also spectacularly fresh and cheap. Its also the price, about £1 for a big and fresh water melon, about 40p for a coconut.
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Post by Humph on Oct 23, 2016 17:20:43 GMT
I remember Caipirinha, got me in a lot of ( often very pleasant ) bother that stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2016 18:13:25 GMT
Oh yes. Been there. All sorts of really quite impressive trouble.
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Post by Hofmeister on Dec 27, 2016 19:40:52 GMT
And as the 2016 Competitive Obedience season draws to a close, I can look back on how we did in our first ever season. Clearly the fractured hip kyboshed our chance to trial for the South East team for Crufts 2017, but I was determined to, and made it to the Class Finals exactly 4 weeks to the day after the operation. With no practise or warming up we stormed (limped) into a 5th place in class (47 qualifiers) Over the moon with that given the circumstances.  BCOS Grade 1 Winner BCOS Grand Prix Final Qualifier BCOS Team Winners Aylesbury PB 4th Slough PB 5th Winchester Novice 4th Winchester PB 2nd Andover PB 1st Chesvale Novice 5th Thames Beg 1st Thurrrock Beg 1st NCOF Beg 5th. |
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Post by Humph on Dec 27, 2016 19:50:29 GMT
Hey that's pretty good !
My dog is the local champion at finding, chasing and fetching sticks mind. 😉
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2016 21:01:56 GMT
PB? Beg?
Well done.
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Post by Hofmeister on Dec 27, 2016 22:25:12 GMT
You have to enter at the lowest grade and progress through (win out) of classes
Start with PB (pre Beginner) one win needed to "win out" to:
Beginner, two wins needed to "win out" to:
Novice, two wins needed to "win out " to:
A, three wins (under three different judges) to "win out" to:
B, Three wins (three different judges) to
C, Three wins (three different judges) to
Championship C, three wins (under three different judges at "championship shows") get you a "C Ticket" and title "Obedience Champion" A "C ticket" is an entry to the crufts championship final.
Its possible to enter a second class as well as the one you qualified for, so its possible to win out by jumping classes.
In our first year we won out of PB and Beg and now qualified to compete Novice, and A as my second entry. A includes scent work (retrieve a cloth from a batch of 6 with handlers scent on), a send away to a marked place, and a more complicated moving recall. I have the moving recall trained and working on scent and sendaway.
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