New Companion Dog Excellent Title

Finally Derek and Elice finished his CDX with three first place ribbons to show for the work.

Derek working on out of sight stays

I managed to position Derek so he would not have someone step on him & then I  put him in a down stay.  Some displays were set up so I could circle around behind him and keep a foot on his leash and he could not see me. Homestead Gardens is a great place to work.  They are very dog friendly and Derek got lots of attention.

Harvest Time at Applewoods

Thanks to Eric for some great photos.

Daycare Pics

                                     Piper struggles to see where he is going!

                         Sherpa says, "Wait a minute!" to Diesel who still thinks he can fit underneath!

                          Bea had better get the upper hand now before Diesel becomes a giant!

                                                             Rulers of the yard?

A good snooze is hard to get sometimes.

Labor Day Holiday

Just a note that we are closed Saturday, August 30 through Tuesday, September 2.

Our Summer Intern, Nate is laying down on the job!

But wait! There is Kingston beside Nate and what on earth is Bea doing using Nate as her private pillow?

All Stars 2014: Team Applewoods takes # 2/30 of the best teams in the country! Go Team Applewoods!

Hurrah for Ziva and Nava!

Three days, three obedience trials all in one location in PA. The results?  Nava earned 3 first place awards, a "Highest Scoring Herding Dog" for the entire 3 days in ALL obedience events AND...a stellar Beginner Novice title.

Video of Roxanne receiving news that Sugar took 2nd place at All Stars 2014!

Happy Birthday Lori - what a great gift from Raya

Way to go Lori and Raya. 
Three (3) Novice obedience trials in 3 days in one BIG HUGE building full of breed rings and dogs and noise!
Three (3) First Place awards = one CD (Companion Dog) new title.

Way to go Raya's Sunshine CGCA BN CD

All Stars 2014. Team Applewoods scores BIG!

All Stars 2014 in York, PA.  

Six rings, 2 days, 3 obedience events per dog.  Whew!

The open class was three runs in different exercise order but only two sets of stays over the weekend. Utility was three full runs with different exercise order.


Individual Results? 

Eric and Murphy (brown Labadoodle) placed 7th out of 30 in individual Open competition (-17.5 PTS)

Ben and Jan placed 5th in open (-16.5 )

Jan and Ben beat Murphy and Eric by 1 point out a possible 540 points possible!). :-

Roxanne and Sugar placed 2nd in utility out of 25! (-36.5)

 Team Results? 

Team Applewoods got Second place out of 24 teams. (-70.5) These are the 4 placement teams.

Competition was tough, the spread between 2nd and 8th place in our Open was less than 6 points. Murphy and Eric actually tied for 7th/8th and won our runoff to get 7th. A runoff with a long pattern with three judges and everyone in the entire place watching was more difficult than Eric or Murphy thought it would be. All other rings were taken down and everyone is watching the run off competitions while waiting for the awards ceremony.

According to Eric, the real hero of the weekend was Mr. Slow and Steady Sugar! The point spread near the top of Open was very tight, but there were much larger spreads in Utility. Sugar was one of two dogs (out of 25 in utility) who did not NQ (not qualify) on ANY exercise all weekend! That got him second place in Utility by a good margin AND that is why Team Applewoods got second place!

Closed for Independence Day

Just a reminder that we are closed on July 4th and 5th for Independence Day. Cherish your freedoms!

New Grass/ new puppy!

New sod was laid this week and the dogs sure like it.  Today we had a new puppy who is starting the Puppy Headstart class and she had a ball playing with Piper, the Airedale.