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April
21-22, 2007 Our
first U-Fli tournament and the first in Jan
2007 Well
this site hasn’t been updated in quite some time,
I’m going to try to keep at it this time! We finished off the year with
some new titles. Darla gets her FM, Gigi FM, Dawson
FMX, Envy FDCH-S, Skye FDCH-G… It was quite a
year and we’ve had some changes. We have a lot of new guys just waiting
for a shot in the lanes… it should be an awesome year, and we look
forward to more time racing!!! May
13th - 14th, 2006 Gigi runs for the first time with EE! We made around
300 points and had a great time! We smoothed out some of the wrinkles with
our line up… April 2/06 We entered the lanes with this weekend with a temporary height dog
Fred, handled by Pam Casselman, as our height dog
Envy is on ‘sabbatical’ J and Gigi is out
of town. Thanks Pam for helping us out so we could play in the lanes! Sept 1/05 We welcome “Ami” a beautiful mix with bright blue eyes
and an upbeat personality to our team! Look for Ami to test out her flyball
skills in the upcoming Carp tourney! July 30th – 31rst, 05 What a weekend in June 10th-12th, 05 Our trip to May 23rd, 05 Our third tourney in Trenton we went exhibition toward the end on
Sunday, poor Fly just went over to visit in the other lane one time too many!
All he needs is a little more time, he has a fabulous box turn, he just likes
to socialize J We still couldn’t be happier with
his progress, he has come so far from that timid little rescue dog…
Actually all of our dogs have come so far, we couldn’t be more proud of
all of them! May 15th, 05 Our second tournament ever was over the weekend and sure was
interesting! We ran Skye, Darla, Molly, Fly and sometimes Diego… The
environment must have gotten to Diego and Fly – this was their first
tourney – and it seemed like they both forgot what to do! But it was a
learning experience all right! We actually did make some points, 31 in total!
J April 24th, 05 House league today was a stretch and a half, let me tell you! We ran
the lineup of Molly, Diego, Fly, Skye and sometimes little Envy… until
Molly decided that is would be cool to cross over to the other lane, and
while we watched in horror, she smacked into another dog, did a few
somersaults in the air and came crashing down on her head! Thankfully her
head hit the wooden podium and not the hard floor, and (after a few intense
seconds) Molly got up and shook herself off like nothing happened…
Needless to say she took it easy the rest of the day, but she was wondering
what the fuss was about, you wouldn’t have guessed she had been through
what she had by looking at her… crazy girl! So then we raced Skye,
Diego, Fly, Envy for the majority of the races that were left. Well Diego was
a little intimidated by Molly during the first few lineups (she’s pretty
intense) and had lost his turn on the box, but with this lineup, Diego was
back into the groove. Fly oh Fly – what a day he had! He crossed over
sometimes, but considering this guy wasn’t running a full run last
month, well he did an awesome job! Little Envy? Well 8.5 month old Envy did a
superb job as well, towards the end she noticed dogs in the other lane and
thought it would be fun to play with them, but putting her on anchor dog
solved that problem and miss bouncy was having a blast of a time! Envy
won’t be in the real lanes until she turns one, so she’ll be more
than ready for her real debut. House league was a great experience and we
would like to extend a big THANK YOU to Backdraft for holding these events
this year! March 20, 2005 At house league today we ran the line up Molly, Mickey, Skye, Diego
(and sometimes Dawson). Diego had his debut today! Fly ran recalls –
distraction was an issue for both newbies of course, but Diego overcame that
after the 3rd race and ran the last 3 races really well! WHOO
HOO!!!! Way to go Diego! We will get those issues ironed out before last
house league boys! After all, little lady Envy will be joining you boys for
her debut then, and you’ll want to impress her with your talents J Feb 27th, 05 House league today went really well. We ran the line up Molly,
Dawson, Mickey, Darla. Skye was home getting over her cold. Molly only went
off to explore in the other lane a couple of times after she finished her run
if mom didn’t catch her fast enough J But other then that she was running
perfectly with a beautiful turn. She has blossomed into a fantastic flyball
dog. We left with 6 out of 6. Way to go team! Feb 13th, 05 Our first tournament was SharkFEBst… and my first experience
running on 3 teams all at one tourney! Yikes! Thanks to Sands and everyone at
DogGone ballistic for the tremendous help with everything and guidance in
getting my feet wet, or soaked for that matter, in my very first tourney as a
Captain! It was a fantastic weekend and we all had a great time! I
didn’t jinx Mickey by telling Andi over and over that her boy was dream
team material, and that was proven on his very first tourney! You could have
peeled me off the roof I was so happy for the both of them J Also I couldn’t have been happier with how Molly actually
fought distractions (like little dogs in her lane) and completed full runs!
What a girl! And Darla for running perfectly for Ty and Sands from DGB -
THANKS! Skye has come around 180 degrees, it is awesome to see that girl run.
Thank you Erin from DGB for giving us a superstar height dog!! Niki was
awesome! Cannot believe how well these dogs ran for an all green team! Now
back to practicing those passes so we can move up a division or 2… well
maybe! Check our brags page for new titles! Jan 23rd, 05 Our 3rd house league event – we tried two line ups:
Skye, Mickey, Niki, Molly and Skye, Mickey, Darla , Niki. After losing the
first two races we pulled Molly, she was not ready for all that distraction,
but she tried REALLY hard (and so did Jacques – her handler for the
day)!! Our second line up took over and we won the remaining 4 races J We can hardly wait to debut this line up of all rescue & green
dogs at SharkFEBst! On the last race Dawson and Skye ran head to head as
start dogs on DGB & EE. I was blown away when on the first heat Skye left
Jan 12, 05 We would like to announce a temporary addition to our team for
SHARKFEBST! A sweet little rescued dog Niki (a green dog from DGB) will be
running with us as height dog. This means we will be running a completely
GREEN team!! Skye/Darla, Mickey, Molly/Fly and Niki. The only dog in this
Sharkfebst team that is not rescued is Molly… So we should be running
quite a few races with an all rescue line up! Jan 1, 05: We would like to announce the addition of a little BC mix to our
team! “Crazy Maisy” is a treat vs ball obsessed
girl who is truly quite the character! It will be really fun to watch her
learn flyball… Dec 12, 04: House league #2: This time we only raced 5 races. We ran the same
line up as last time (Skye, Mickey, Dawson, Darla) as Molly and Diego are not
yet on full runs. Our dogs were a bit out of whack at practice the night
before (basically the line up was a disaster and we all had a look of panic
on our faces!!!) so we were quite a bit worried when we arrived at house
league the following morning! After losing our first race, the dogs finally
got back into the swing of things and we began to test out passing. Mickey
passed Skye without a problem, but Skye the little demon had to be thrown a
ball to keep her from turning around and running back down the lane! Thank
you to the volunteer “Skye catchers” J Mickey is such a champ, dogs passing him coming and going as he is
in position #2. Love ya Mickey! Every dog had a perfect turn on the box every
time – WHOOO HOOO! We ended up winning 4 out of 5 races, but also ended
the day with our new record of 21.3 seconds!! Over the next few weeks we will
be trying to tighten the passes on all the dogs and try to get Darla to even
pass at all - that would be nice Darla! <hint hint> Next house league
in January, Dec 10, 04: We welcome Dawson and Darla from Quick Release to Extreme Envy!! Also
we would like to announce a new member in training, Kip to our team! Nov 28, 04: NEWS from house league #1: WOW! I have never been to a house league before! It was an awesome experience! I have to say a big thank you to Back Draft for hosting this event! It was a lot of fun and very well put together. We all got a lot out of it, since most of our members have never even been to a tournament before let alone handle a dog in that type of environment! Everyone did a fantastic job even though we had a few ‘eep’ moments… We finished the day winning 7 out of 7 races! Not too shabby J We had such a great time! Absolutely fantastic day! Dec 12th we hope to have Molly ready for her debut… it’s only 2 weeks away! Kona, Diego and Fly will be doing recalls… Oct, 04: We have entered the house league tournaments to
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