a Taj MuttHall Dog Diary: CPE Weekend Photos

Monday, March 24, 2008

CPE Weekend Photos

SUMMARY: Today, some photos. Later or maybe tomorrow, some narrative results info and post-game analysis.


There is always a workers appreciation gift (WAG--isn't that clever? I made it up back in, uh, gosh, when we were still doing trials up on the lawn between the buildings at Hayward) raffle, and you can get tickets only by working. This is what I really want and why I work a lot each trial. Free-entry certificates. I put in many tickets. Did I win many free entries? Not this time.
But this looked like it would be a useful thing to have around the house, so I put a ticket in here, too. I also didn't win this. I'm guessing that's a good thing.
This is what most of the raffle offerings look like. It's exciting until you realize that I already have 60,000 toys, rawhides, and leashes lying around the house, many of them never used ever for anything.
In the Easter spirit, the pens for filling out your raffle tickets are decorated all flowery. Or maybe that's all the time, to prevent the miracle of the pens rising and walking away under their own power.
This keychain looked pretty cool but as we saw earlier, my keychain is plenty crowded with useless gewgaws already, so I did not put in a ticket.
Instead, let's look at some entertaining results for ouir runs on Saturday. The darker horizontal lines separate dogs who are competing directly against each other.
Compare and contrast Tika's results with other dogs. All the dogs on the sheet are at the same level of competition, just different heights.
If only she had been one stride further to exit the tunnel, we'd have gotten those 3 points, too!
This is the only thing that kept Tika from having a perfect weekend (10 Qs out of 10 runs)--that danged knocked bar for 5 faults. Dang dang dang.
This was Boost's really lovely Standard run Saturday. We went downhill considerably on Sunday.
Ribbon for Boost finishing her last Level 3 requirement, so now she's earned "CL3".
Our ribbons for Saturday. They don't fit on Boost's crate, so Tika's crate is kindly holding all of them. On Sunday, Tika had 5 ribbons and more firsts, and Boost had fewer ribbons and fewer firsts. It's nice to have two dogs.
When I'm eating lunch, I have the crates open to toss them orts (there's that crossword puzzle word again) from my plate. The rule is that you can't exit the crate. Tika isn't big on rules. But it took me about 20 shots to catch her, because every time I raised my camera, she ducked back inside.
The neighboring Little Black Dogs, Sparkle and Scully, get watermelon cut up specially for them.
Scully enjoys and Sparkle drools. My dogs get Zukes or maybe cut-up Rollover served from my slobbered fingers. As also previously recently discussed. Not watermelon tenderly and loving cut into LBD-sized pieces and served with a fork.
Wear sunscreen. Wear sunscreen. Wear sunscreen.

2 comments:

  1. a fren gave me the cat-opoly recently, although i don't hv any cat...

    congrates for your Qs...

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  2. Awww, great shot of Tika's head peeking out amongst all the ribbons. Congratulations on what sounds like a successful weekend.

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