Tempus Rogue and Toby

A Message to all Dumpster Divers

April 10, 2010 By The Food Lady 24 Comments

You may as well stop looking, because you won’t find Piper in one tonight!

ZOMG – someone swapped my crappy, saucers-for-eyeballs faux agility dog for a seasoned, level-headed, FAST and accurate supah-stah!

I had to pull Limpy Tweed from the trial because he’s just in no shape to run, and we’re trying to keep him healthy for Regionals in June. So I took his 3 runs and gave them to Piper instead. Tweed is a Masters Dog, and Piper is Advanced, but luckily there were 4 Advanced classes and a Steeplechase to enter her in.

And do you know what she did today?

Q and 1st place in Advanced Standard 1
Q and 1st place in Advanced Standard 2
Q and 1st place in Advanced Jumpers 1

She did not get the Advanced Gamble (distance is still our nemesis) but neither did any other Advanced dog, and she did rake in a whopping 41 points in the opening, way more than any other dog.

She also ran the Steeplechase in 38 seconds. We left before the placement results were posted, but I think she placed fairly high up there, because she was running fast and she ran it clean! And, if I do say so myself, I have proofed some BEE-YOO-TI-FUL contacts on the little vixen.

Less bragging, more soccer ball. Kthx.

It was a pretty amazing day – at our last trial, Piper was 0 for 3 and this time, she was 4 for 5! I don’t know what changed so dramatically in, like, a month but I’m not looking a gift horse in the mouth or anything!

The only sad thing about today’s wonderful performance was that Piper achieved her Advanced Agility Dog of Canada title (that part is not sad) and is now in Masters (that part is more scary than sad) but the club who put on the trial doesn’t give out rosettes for AADC titles :(

So I do not have a photo here of Piper with her Titling Ribbon. Instead, I will post a photo of TDBCR alumni Tempus the Borderjack who got his Bronze Award of Merit today (25 Masters Games Qs, 10 Masters Titling Qs)!

That’s a big ribbon for a little dog. Way to go, Tempus!! I would hug him, but he’d just bite me, because he’s the devil.

I am so happy and impressed with Piper today that I’m thinking about entering her in Regionals too. But first, we retrain the weave poles with 2X2s

I think I’ll keep her :)

EDIT: APRIL 11

I stopped by the trial site today to check yesterday’s Steeplechase results. Piper got a 1st place Q in that too!! So she got 4 1st place Q runs yesterday. Wowie – she beat some fast, experienced dogs.

Many (many!) extra thanks to Bev of Leaps N Bounds Agility club who very kindly brought us a coveted AADC ribbon from her collection so that Piper has a rosette to celebrate her new title :)

Can I eat these?

TDBCR Piper, AADC!

In other news – thank you for all your feedback regarding the sales of limited edition art pieces. It seems the majority of you would like some kind of advanced notice, so here it is:

ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14th 2010, GET READY FOR OUR FIRST “WOO-OFF.“

This Wednesday I will posting the first in a series of collaborative art pieces for sale! This particular item will be a signed and numbered piece … there will be 10 available only and then it will never be available again. So get your wallets ready for the WOO-OFF on Wednesday, April 14th!!

Bell of the Ball

January 26, 2010 By The Food Lady 19 Comments

Hello. My name is Mr. Tricky Woo. And I have to wear this goofy and irritating bear bell on my collar now.

HAH! Take that, Wootie.

While Jingles tinkles merrily away on our walks, he also cannot disappear because the absence of the ringing is rather apparent. As he starts to wander off, he gets called back – see, Wootie will only take off if he’s already out of sight. But if you notice him leaving, he pretends he wasn’t going anywhere in the first place. This is one VERY sly dog.

Since I put them bell on him on Sunday, he has been remarkably present.

We didn’t even lose him on the hike today. He did try to scuttle off into the bushes once or twice, but since there were three humans, who were SUPER ANNOYED by his bell, one of us always noticed when the tinkling started to fade from earshot.

Well this sucks.

Bear bells: available for about $4.00 from your local outdoor sporting goods store.

Oh look, it’s Ru. And Tweed’s behind him.

We go hiking once a week in the deserted forests in the Belcarra area with Cheryl, who is a dogwalker, and goes there every day for her job. That’s a cool job. But she has Ru, a TDBCR adoptee, who has a reputation for “breaking” dogs. While Ru is allegedly an old dog, he outruns everyone on the hike, every single day. Any dog foolish enough to try and keep up with him ends up a crippled gimp at the end of the day.

Not that I’m naming any names.

The forest can be scary. For it contains borderjacks.

… borderjacks who clone themselves, bigger than life.

How’d he do that?

Oh look, it’s Ru again. And Tweed too.

And again.

Hey look at that … again!

The result is The Tri Pod Formerly Known As Tweed. He’s totally gimped this afternoon :(

Tweed’s dumb. I’m pretty. Take a picture of me.

Look who is almost the same size as Piper!

Holycow!

Rogue says she is also pretty, and I should take a photo of her too.

We are still accepting guesses as to what her breed mix might be.

But be careful, for if you guess wrong …

… the borderjack cometh.

The Dog With A Thousand Faces

August 18, 2009 By The Food Lady Leave a Comment

And all of them look exactly like this:

Get. Your. Camera. OUTTAMYFACE.
Or I’ll tear out your heart and shove up your nostrils.

Okay, that’s so not fair of me. Sometimes he looks like this:

diediediediediediediediedie.

Poor Tempus the borderjack thinks he is so misunderstood. But we understand him just fine – he is Satanic.

As your Master, I summon thee. Now, kill these humans. ALL these humans.

And it’s not like his sister, Rogue, is much better – even though she isn’t a borderjack. We think. Or rather, we don’t think. Well, to be honest, we aren’t really sure WHAT the heck Rogue is. She has this in common with His Wootieness.

I am MISTER(y) WOO. Please refrain from speculation. Thx.

What the heck is Rogue Poguey, AKA, The Angry Coho?

Huwo. You can’t peg me. Nope.

Rogue is silvery-blue and white, and squeaked in at just 16″ when measured for agility. She is Evil in Training, but lacks the psychotic qualities of her deeply disturbed borderjack sibling.

Also, she is weird.

Any ideas?

As long as it doesn’t involve swimming, I don’t care what you call me. This liquid is GWOSS!

I’m a booteeful and imperious pwincess. Don’t forget that. Or I’ll bite you.

Yesterday we tried a new swimmin’ hole, called Buntzen Lake. Fiona said it was “an adventure,” but I think she just wanted us to go somewhere with water that wouldn’t make Toby smell like the mouldy old socks of a long dead man.

It was quite lovely at the lake, very picturesque, and – HEY! GET OUT OF THE SHOT, TWEED!

But I’m so good lookin’ :(

From what glimpses of it I could catch, that is. Oh hai, Piper. Yes, I see you.

I said YES, Piper, I DO see you! Jeez!

Well fantastic, you’re not blind after all. What good news. Maybe you could see yourself throwing this ball for me then.

Food Lady = slave to a trio of canine whims (Mr. Woo’s whim is to sit around doing nothing at all)

Today, the kittens are the vet getting themselves spayed, while their mama, El Gato Negro, roams my condo calling for her little lost children. It kind of breaks your heart. Also your eardrums.

The brown tabby has a home. The black and white whiskerface is meeting what I hope will be her new home on Saturday!

This leaves only EGN and her reign of terror over my poor dogs.

She is a nice cat in her own right, but foldy ears or not, nobody seems to want her :( Black cats get a bum rap.

But why?

Never mind Toby.

But WHY?!?!

Toby shut up. Don’t make me summon the Lazy Orange Basketball from its leafy hiding place.

Did someone summon me?

You know when I do that, Piper goes into strange twisty fits.
^^weird.

In other news, Tess the pregnant BC that we flew here a few weeks ago was recently x-rayed and appears to be carrying 8 little bundles of fuzzylump cuteness for us, due sometime in the begining of September. Fingers crossed that all goes well!