Arbor-eat-em?

Hey dere eberyone is me, Beckett.

Today Mums tooked us to a big park, she said it be called an arbor-eat-em.We didn't gets to eat nuthin while we were there though. It was quites a big park with a lake, an bridges to goes over a stream and lots and lots of trees. Keltic tried to pee on each and ebery one. There was lots of other doggies running around but Mum's kept us on our leashes.  I guess she was afraid of getting lost.

Where we entered da park dere wasn't so many peeps but when we gots to the paved walking trail dere was more an more peeps and loads of dem were on bikes. At da far end of da lake dere was tons of peeps all over and when we crossed the street it was hard not to get our leashed tangled.

Mums wanted to get our pictures with somethin called two-lips. We went into dis little park and walked around for a bit. Mums took our pictures with some flowers and lots of other pictures just of these flowers. Lots of other peeps were taking pictures of flowers too.  Didn't see no two-lips thingys.

 Mums said somethin about getting us a hot dog to share but then she said she saw a sign that said "no doggies allowed" so we turned back the other way. On our way back Mums said she sawed da same sign at the place where we wented into da little park, seems like we doggies should na of been in dere. Da sign was facing da wrong way, so Mums couldn't see it when we wented in but dere were other doggies dere and we was good boys.

We headed back da way we came and stopped to rest. Mums sat on a bench and we laid in da grass. Mums gave us sum water ta drink. Keltic had some but I didn't want any eben though Mums tried to get me ta drink sum.

Mums tooked lots of pictures. She wanted to get pictures of us in da park too, she was always making us sit an look at da camera.

It was quites a long walk.  We stopped again on da way back to da car. Mums said she saw a turtle but I did na see it. Mums gots a picture of it so I guess it be true.




It was nice to get back to da car. It was a very nice walk but it's was a little long. Mums said we should go on more long walks like that.  When we gots home we had lunch and den a  nap.  It was a very nice holli-day.

PS, you can biggify the pictures by clicking on dem.

Lots of licks from me, Beckett and from Keltic too.

Cookie Monsters

Keltic reminded me that we were supposed to show everyone what he got for his birthday presents. He got a dragon with a rattle and squeaker, a bone that you can put treats in along with treats for it and both he and Beckett got a big cookie.

 

Keltic got the crown shaped cookie and Beckett got the party hat. I tried to take pictures of Keltic eating his cookie but he runs away. I think he thinks that I'll take it from him. Keltic really is a cookie monster; he eats so fast that he's done long before Beckett so the video is only of Beckett.

Beckett had to eat the icing off of his cookie before he ate the cookie.What a guy!

Cookie Monster Video

Title Match

Well, last weekend we had just a pawsome agility weekend. The weather was nice so it wasn't too cold in the arena; in fact when the heaters were on I found it a bit too warm.

Saturday I was just there with Keltic, I had entered him in four events; two advanced games, a Jumpers and a Snooker and two Starter Standard runs.  He needed one Starter Standard for his Starter title - Agility Dog of Canada. Beckett stayed home so he wouldn't have to spend the day in a crate. The first run was an Advanced Snooker, I handled one of the red jumps badly and Keltic back jumped it, so tweet went the judge's whistle before we had enough points to Q. Our next run was  beautiful, just a lovely run on the Advanced Jumpers course. I felt very connected with Keltic.

Advanced Jumpers

Keltic ran the course in 26.4 seconds running 4.85 yards per second. The course time was set at 40 seconds so we were well under that. I'll have to watch who is judging the next time we run Jumpers as he has two qualifying scores with this judge and you need to have qualifying scores under two judges to move up to Masters.  We then had a bit of break before the Starters events began and I worked the first Starter event.  The Standards were the next two events so the wait wasn't too long. Keltic was pretty good about his start lines and in his first Starter Std he did try to get his weaves but he had no two on, two off on his contacts; he barely slowed down, luckily he hit the all contact zones.

Starter Standard 1

Video of Keltic's Starter Standard ADC title run

 Keltic got his third qualifying score on Starter Standard 1 and with that his title of Agility Dog of Canada. Since you can't do same day move-ups and in any case the Advanced events had already run, we still had another Starter Standard to run.  We could have just gone home but decided to stay and just have some fun.

Starter Standard 2

Keltic surprised me and got another qualifying score in this Standard as well. All of his Q's were also the best runs of the mini Regular dogs so he also got a stuffed toy for each of those runs. So now my little man is all in Advanced and, as a result, will run with a handicap in this year's K9 Kup.

Keltic with ribbons and toys.

When we got home, I told Beckett that he couldn't let his little brother show him up and he had to go three for four as well. I told him I wanted a Steeplechase Q and two Standards, Beckett didn't get it quite right, he got a Steeplechase Q, a Master Jumpers Q and one Master Standard Q.  The Steeplechase run was our first of the day on Sunday. They are nice flowing courses so they are a great way to begin the day.

Steeplechase

Beckett had one little bobble in this run but luckily for us there are no refusals called in Steeplechase which is another reason we love it. I love Beckett's weave entries in this run and he sure made me run to get the blind cross in after the last tunnel.  The little bobble probably cost him first place as we were 1/10th of a second behind the first place dog.

Video of Beckett's Steeplechase run

The Jumpers run was a beautiful run, again I felt very connected with Beckett. I just love when that happens; sometimes you seem to be just reacting but when it comes together you really understand that there is a deep human-animal bond.

Master Jumpers 

Beckett ran the course in 26.82 running 5.56 yards per second. The course time was 41 seconds. I think Beckett really likes to run as a 10" Special. This was also a first place run.

Beckett then had a five fault Master Std, he spun and got a refusal when I tried to get him to turn out to the tunnel off of the A-frame(obstacle 10 to 11).

Master Standard 1

The next Standard run had a turn away to a tunnel off the dog walk and I worried he would do the same thing but he didn't and we were clean for the Q and another first place. Beckett ran the course in 42.91, running 4.29 yards per second on a course that had a course time of 63 seconds.

So Beckett went 3 for four too but he only won one best run toy. Beckett has some stiff competition with a miniature poodle named Keaton. In the four events they did together, Keaton won twice and Beckett won twice. So why did Beckett only get one Best Run toy well that's because if there are not enough dogs entered they combine all Specials.  So in one events where Beckett was the first place mini Special (6" and 10" jump heights),   an Open Special dog (16" and 22" jump heights) was faster than Beckett, a mini dog. It's hard for the little guys to beat the bigger dogs but sometimes they can.

Beckett with ribbons and toy.

We had a great weekend, hope that it was the first of many more this season.

Wee Bit Irish Birthday

Hey dere eberyone, is me Keltic. Top of the morning to you all and to me too, it be my third birdday.

We celebrated on Sunday wid a cake dat Mums made for me. But afore I coulds have cake she made me and Beckett wear all da funny hats again for pictures. Dis year she even boughted these big green bowties after seeing dem in the da professional photo shoot.

It's tough what we has to put up wid to get cake.  Mums made me a really nice cake though, peanut butter and carrot cake wid cream cheese for da icing. Here it is wid just da icing.

And dere it is all decorated wid shamrocks, just for me. Well I gots to share wid Beckett.

Again Mums had da flashy thing out to take some pictures. Beckett and me was good boys and waited for Mums to finish wid the picture taking but I can tell you I was getting a bit impatient.  We did lot o'BARKING while she was cutting up our piece of cake.

We didn't gets to eat at da table cuz Mums bought a new table cloth and runner for Easter and she didn't want to gets it dirty afore the peeps had a chance to see dem. Beckett and me, we didn't care one bit where we ate as long as we gots CAKE!

Mums says I is all growed up now but I is still da puppy boy cuz I is da youngest so I guess dat means I can still be naughty sumtimes. It's hard bein good all da time.

Mums said she would share wid you da pictures she chosed from da professional photo shoot so her dey is! You see I just had to ham it up in one of dem pictures. And Mums liked it; Beckett, da mama's boy, is always so serious.

I didn't gets my pressies yet, Mums said I will get dem tonight when she gets home from work. She said dat spreadding things out like dis makes celebrating my birdday last longer, so we'll show whats I got for pressies anudder time.  Until den, here's us eating CAKE!.

Keltic and Beckett eat CAKE!

Naughty and Nice Part II

Keltic is kind of growing out of the naughty stage so I didn't want to stick him with that cookie and Beckett still can have a little naughty in him so in the end they each had half of the Nice cookie and half of the Naughty cookie. It's hard to tell with Keltic, he eats so fast I hardly got a chance to snap a photo. On Beckett's half of the cookies you can see the red and green icing of the letters.  I don't think they cared, they only cared they got COOOKIES!!!