Free Spirit USDAA trial on 2/27 and 2/28 of 2010
Kevin & Charter:
1st Place in P1 Std, 1st Place & Q in P1 Snooker for their P1 Snooker Title, 1st Place P1 Gamblers, 1st place P1 Gambler & Q for their P1 Gamblers title, 1st place P1 Standard, 1st Place & Q in P1 Jumpers

Rachel and Scorch:
2nd place and Q in Starters/Novice Standard to earn their Agility Dog title. 1st place and Q in Starters Snooker, 1st Starters Gamblers.

Lori and Maggie:
3rd - Starters Snooker, 1st Starters Gamblers, 3rd & Q – Starters Pairs, 1st & Q Starters Standard, 1st Starters Standard, 1st Starters Jumpers, 1st Starters Gamblers

Kerry and Mesa:
1st place Advanced Pairs...1st place Steeplechase Qualifier.....4th place Steeplechase Finals.. . Q in Advanced Jumpers.... She also earned her Advanced Agility Dog Title.

Kerry and Dylan (not pictured):
3rd place Advanced Pairs....Q in Advanced Jumpers

WOW! You guys are THE BEST!! Thanks from the bottom of my heart for your congratulatory ad to Arrow and myself in Clean Run!! What a great surprise! Special thanks to Shelley for organizing this which, I know from personal experience, can be a bit of a challenge. Thank you to Karen Powers for designing the ad multiple times and to Sara Norman for her hard work trying to convert the ad into a format Clean Run could use. Thanks to all of you for making this happen! WOW! This is really, really cool!!!!!! I have attached a copy of the ad for those of you who do not get Clean Run magazine.....as you open the ad the background that pops up is a photo I shot in Boca Grande when I was walking the beach with Arrow. I happened to see our footprints side by side in the sand and I remember thinking "here's the partner I want to walk through life with." Cheers to all of you and your special partners! May your paths together in life be lengthy and always side by side. Love and Licks, Rachel and Arrow

Barb's brag at the 10/25/09 CPE Trial. This was Standard Level 2 and jumping at 12". Elvis Q'd in all 4 classes with 2 firsts and 2 seconds. His time in his last class... Wildcard... which is a discrimination class was outstanding. I really can't keep up with him! We're so proud of our little guy.
Photographer credit: Raymond Dutton Photography

Hogan is putting his Therapy Dog certification to good use. He is now officially the Boynton Beach City Library reading Dog. Every Thursday children get a chance to read a book to Hogan. They love it and so does he!

This is the way to kick off 2009!
At the Tailwaggers January 2, 3, and 4 AKC agility trial Rachel enjoyed success with (l to r) Arrow, Ringo, Scorch and Partner. We had a great three days - even on the day when I showed all 4 dogs! Counting the "new title" ribbons, my dogs brought home 15 rosettes (plus the 12 green Q ribbons). Ringo's ribbons added icing to the cake.
Arrow was the star for sure. So far her preferred novice career is 8 Q's in 9 runs. At this show she ran 6 times and Q'ed 5 times. That was three 1st place ribbons on Friday and two 2nd place ribbons on Sunday (she was definitely still feeling tired from Friday). Unfortunately she missed her dogwalk contact in her last run or she'd have been 9 Q's for 9 runs and we'd have completed 3 titles.... I guess we'll have to settle for finishing 2 titles! She had a ball, but cut her foot pretty badly in her next to last run. I am hoping that heals quickly and does not impact our OTCH efforts on 1/17/09 and 1/18/09.
Partner had a blast. He showed two days and came home with 4 Q's in 6 runs - three 1st place ribbons and one 3rd place. Despite an injury, Scorch won novice FAST in 2 of his three runs in that class to complete his title and he Q'ed and placed third in Open Standard.
Ringo did very well in Novice FAST. Distance work has never been his area of expertise and this was his first time in FAST, so we were really proud to see get 2 Q's in three runs, placing second both times - only to me with Scorch. Beating yourself stinks!

National/International UKC Ch Majestic's Tailor Made, CD, RA, TDI, CGC
aka Buttons
Buttons, a two year old Yorkie who is loved, owned and trained by Betty Gansky, earned his Novice Obedience title in 3 shows out of the Novice B class with all 1st placements. In all, he has competed in Novice B eight times & placed in seven. His biggest moment was placing 3rd in an All-Breed class of 44 with a score of 196 in Orlando .
Buttons also earned both his Rally Novice & Rally Advanced title in six shows. His lowest score was a 98. He won the class with a perfect score of 100 seven times even beating a Boxer in time by 10 seconds!
Buttons is also a registered Therapy Dog. He visits both a nursing home & Bethesda Hospital once a week. Buttons enjoys agility training with Rachel and we are looking forward to entering our first agility trial in the upcoming months.

Wendy and Bebe started showing January 20008. We got a first and "Q" in jumpers with weaves at our first DACOF show with our team mates also taking first places with "Q's". We have also gotten two legs now towards our Novice Jumpers title, first with "Q" in Snookers, 2- legs towards our pairs title and several 2nds and 3rds in other events. Hopefully in the near future we will have much more to brag about.

What a way to close out 2007! 12/29/07-12/31/07 Rachel had a great time competing with Partner, Arrow and Ringo at the Tailwaggers agility trial in West Palm Beach. Both Partner and Arrow completed their Open FAST titles and Partner completed his Novice Agility title. Partner and Rachel even made the cover of the Greenacres Observer and the Coastal Observer. Ringo is now just one qualifying score away from his agility excellent title.

Mary Moore and her Chihuahua, Cookie, earned 2nd place and a leg toward their Companion Dog (C.D.) title their first time in the obedience ring. They attended the Greater Naples Dog Show on November 24, 2007. They earned a score of 180. The duo also earned 2 first place qualifying scores in Rally Excellent A.

Rally Obedience Trial results from the OTCPBC Obedience Trial on June 9 and 10, 2007 in WPB.
Rachel Flatley and Arrow - Novice B Rally - 3 scores of 100 and 3 first place ribbons. Title completed in 3 of 3 tries. Debbie Canderelli and Lacy - Novice A Rally- score of 100 and first place, score of 94 and 2nd place and score of 90 and 2nd place. Title completed in 3 of 3 tries.. Mary Moore and Cookie - Novice A Rally- a score of 99 and 2nd place, and two scores of 100 with two first place ribbons. Title completed in 3 of 3 tries. Linda Neale and Dax - Novice A Rally- score of 96 and 3rd place. Title completed in 3 of 3 tries. Advanced Rally- score of 97 and 1st place.

Chihuahua is Cookie with owner Mary, brown sheltie is Lacy with Debbie, mostly black with white is Dax with Linda, and the black and white border collie is Arrow with Rachel. The lady without the dog is Deena Strauss, Rally Coach for PFDTG. The man without the dog is the judge.

"Hope," wraps up her first show season, Dec. 2006-May 2007 earning her AX and AXJ titles as well as Novice FAST. She is also ranked in the top Five Westies for 2007 in AKC with 122 MACH points, and one double Q. What a beginning! Can't wait for next season!

Arrow completes her Novice FAST title - Jan 07
Partner completes his Novice FAST title - Jan 07

PFDTG students at Miami, FL Trial in Jan 2007.

January 2007 - In just 2 trials, Partner surpasses the requirements to earn the USDAA Agility Dog title (requirements: 3 standard legs, 1 jumpers leg, 1 snooker leg, 1 gamblers leg and 1 pairs leg).

Shiba Inu, Rowdy at New Years 2007 AKC trial.

November 2006 Winter Park USDAA - Partner at his agility debut and Bandit. Partner and Bandit were Pairs Partners and qualified.

Meet Leslie Granville-Smith's Westie, Dreamtime Hope Diamond; CGC, NA, NAJ. Hope's first show was The Greater Miami Dog Club on Dec. 9th and 10th. Hope Qualified in all four of her first runs, two perfect scores, and four blue ribbons. Her second Trial was Tailwagger's Club of South Florida, Dec. 30th-January 1st, 2007. Her first run of the competition was JWW, where she got a perfect score, first place, and her NAJ Title. She followed that up with a perfect score in Standard, winning her NA Title. Her first class on January 1st, she got her first leg in Open JWW...and also Qualified in the first FAST class.

Linda Purkey's Suki the Pug. Suki has been a student of Rachel's for many years. He is proud to brag about his agility accomplishments for 2006.
AKC Novice Pref JWW: 6/17 1st place & 1st leg, 9/23 1st place & 2nd leg, 10/15 1st place & TITLE!
AKC Novice Pref STD: 6/4 3rd place & 1st leg, 9/23 1st place & 2nd leg
TEACUP: Beginners Games1 7/22 2nd place & 1st leg, 7/22 1st place & 2nd leg, 7/23 1st place & TITLE!, Beginners STD 7/23 2nd place & 1st leg
NADAC Novice Skilled STD: 2/18 2nd & 2nd leg, 5/26 2nd & TITLE!
NADAC Novice Skilled Jumpers: 2/18 2nd & 2nd leg, 5/26 4th & TITLE!
NADAC NoviceTunnelers: 2/18 2nd leg
NADAC Touch n' Go: 2/11 3rd place & 1st leg, 2/18 1st place & 2nd leg
UKC Agility 1: 7/17 2nd place & 2nd leg
AKC RALLY Obedience: 5/10 RN TITLE!

Deborah Joslin goes to the Basenji Nationals in Rhode Island. Karly took 1st in Standard by the skin of her teeth. She also had a clean run in Jumpers, but was over time. Cody takes 1st in Standard and Jumpers, 22 Mach points and High in Trial in both. In addition to all the ribbons, we received bronze medals, a gold medal from a Basenji breeder in Sweden, and many Basenji related prizes such as hand crocheted blanket, luggage, frames and much more. As an added bonus, Cody had two qualifying runs in lure coursing so also received his JC Title. Thanks for all your guidance and belief in my Basenji's over the years!

The first weekend in June, 2006, will be remembered as the first show for Mitch Applebaum and his Springer, Annie, as well as Amy Shaouy and her Border Collie, Roy. Both teams had a great debut and Mitch came home with a perfect score of 100 and a first place ribbon in Novice Jumpers with Weaves.

AKC-MATDA Trial, where "WINDY" got her 55th Agility Title, "BRONSON" got his First Agility Leg & "LADY BUG" got her OA Title.

May 2006 - Debbie Joslin and her Basenjii, Cody, have been invited to compete at Nationals. Can you guess why?

April 2006 student winners at the second day of the DOCOH AKC agility trial (left to right: Linda Neale and Abby, Rachel Flatley with Ringo and Arrow, Cheryl Domato with Mollie and Rosie, and Jeff Grieff and Zoe).

PFDTG students Larry Treadwell and Australian Shepherd, Sydney, finish Sydney's Novice AKC agility title with placements at the DOCOH trial in April 2006.

April 2006 PFDTG student winners at the DOCOH AKC agility trial (left to right: Cheryl Domato and Rosie, Mark Westfall and Seo, Debbie Joslin and Carly, Rachel Flatley with Arrow and Ringo).

Lisa Gardner with her Shiba Inu, Bandit, and Jeff Bogin with his Border Collie, Shep, both at their first trial. It was the Tailwaggers April 2006 USDAA trial in Davie. Both did a great job and got better with each run, Bandit and Shep are also rescue dogs! Bandit even earned his first leg in Jumpers!

Toonie and Dawn attended the Shetland Sheepdog National Competition and placed 4th in sheep herding and 4th in Novice Obedience.

Kevin and Max received 1st place for Novice JWW. It was on 3/25/06 at the Tailwagger's AKC trial in Jupiter. That was their first Q in JWW so he was pretty excited. Kevin is 12 and Max is a 2 1/2 year old Australian Shepherd. This is Kevin and Max's first year running in agility.

Rachel and Shelley Malone's Corgi, Ringo, finished Ringo's Agility Excellent Jumpers (AXJ) in three straight tries with three first place wins on January 26th, 27th and 28th at the Miami AKC agility trial.