Thursday, September 4, 2008

Mission: Not-So-Impossible

So maybe not impossible but REALLY REALLY hard. I was calculating Leland's NADAC legs and disocvered he's in elite jumpers and regular. He has his EAC already and is 3 runs away from his EJC. We only need 19 regular legs (yes, seems like a lot-but we totally ROCK in regular) and then 19 jumpers legs (again, we TOTALLY ROCK at jumpers, too!) until NATCh.

But here's the Mission Impossible part: we only have out novice chances title and 1 leg in open chances. Team Leland needs 14 more chances Q's for NATCh. It's not impossible but it's sure darn hard. We suck at chances. And why do we suck? Not Leland's fault...ALL MINE. That tape just throws me for a loop. Leland's so freakin steady he could do it-he's just also a velcro dog so I need to work on MY technique on this whole distance thing.


And we're not ever worrying about AKC's FAST class. We have our NF and 1 leg towards OF. And it doesn't mean diddly for MACh ;-)


My ultimate goal: for Leland's name to be... (you ready?)

NATCh ADCh MACh Litilann's Catch Me If You Can
Notice how we don't have ANY of those titles? haha. As Walt Disney said...

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible"

Only this isn't impossible-it's all about positive attitude, consistancy, and persistance. Right now we have the last two and I'm working on the positive attitude all the time ;-)




I wanted to add this video as living proof that Leland and I rock the socks off of most runs. This is the June Cleveland All Breed Trial (I think it's June...sometime this summer ;-) )

1 comment:

ryan said...

wow. that was awesome. my rosie could sit, heel, and roll over, but i'm pretty sure she couldn't do any of what i just saw.

i found your blog through "the silent podium". i admit i know basically nothing about dog shows. but maybe you can enlighten me.

ps. i'd be curious to learn how you train. as long as it doesn't give away any trade secrets or something.