The last weekend in June was a busy one.
On Thursday and Friday (the 25th and 26th), we were in Bainbridge, NY competing in a breed confirmation show. Hazel has been shedding out her coat, which does not help with the "beauty" contests, but she still managed to win her class on Thursday and also win BOS (best of opposite sex) earning another point towards her championship title!
She needs a total of 15 points with two "major" (3 or more points) wins, and she's halfway there with 8 points and one major win!We spent Saturday at home, doing stuff around the house and trying to rub as much coat off of Hazel as possible (we're done with the beauty contests until August, so hopefully the faster I can get her old coat out, a new one will grow in!)Sunday morning it was off to Simsbury, CT for a hunt test. The weather was perfect in the morning for the land series, overcast and just a wee bit cool. Hazel nailed her land marks, but I was a little dissappointed in her delivery back to me, as she wanted to parade her retrieved prize in front of the judge first!By the afternoon water series, the sun had come out and it was quite warm. Hazel did a good job on her water marks. The first one landed in the reeds and she had to hunt a bit for it, but found it and the second mark was in the open water (yeah)! Both time's she would have "broke" on the line (good thing I was holding her) and her delivery again was sloppy (set the bird down to "shake off") so we do have some things to work on! But all in all it was good and she qualified!She needs one more pass now to earn her Junior Hunter title. She will be competeing in Baldwinsville, NY on July 11 and 12, so hopefully that will be it!
Yipeeeeee!! Here I come duck!
But Mom.....I wanna go swimming again!
Mmmmmm......feather up the nose!
You can't fool me! I know those geese are fake!
Don't I look dreamy!
This pesky decoy keeps following me!
Splish, Splash!!
Blucollars Hocus Pocus CD, RN, JH
