Performance Newsletter
For August 2007

By Jane Eno

Jane Eno and "Jessie"

Hope everyone is out there having fun with their Kerries. Having a well trained Kerry is a treat to take anywhere. At the end of the month I packed mine into the SUV and drove to Adirondacks for a weekend of camping, hiking and kayaking. Our female Shih Tzu came along too, and did her best to keep up. Jessie was more then happy to jump into the kayaks and go along for the ride. He thought it was an excellent idea – giving him a better view of the ducks and fish in the water.

Everyone at the camp ground was impressed by his good manners and the fact he was willing to ride in a kayak without leaping about or getting at all worried about it. He even got to go out with other people after they saw how much fun he was having, and that he was no problem.
We got back on Wednesday, and being either brave or foolish, I took him to an obedience trial on Saturday. There were two trials on Saturday and one on Sunday. In all, my almost 10 year old kerry competed in Utility and Open obedience twice on Saturday and once on Sunday. Not bad for senior! He even managed to pick up a couple fairly reasonable scores, considering we hadn’t practiced at all during the week.

I am really enjoying having a “trained” mature kerry. He is such a pleasure to take places and show. I hope everyone in the Kerry community has this experience some day of having a sound, healthy, happy and well trained Kerry to live with.

We will be seeing all of you in October I hope! I’ll be arriving on Monday to set up the raffle at the agility trial. The agility starts on Tuesday and continues until Friday. Obedience and rally will take place on Wednesday. Please feel free to drop by the raffle table and say hello. If you have an extra hour, I’d love some help selling tickets.

From Tracey Fulmer and Maggie Hall

The AKC announced the top 5 dogs of each breed invited to the annual Agility Invitational to be held December 1st and 2nd in Long Beach, CA. Listed are The Top 5 Kerries, based on speed points and double qualifying scores for the period from July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007.

They are in order of rank:

Janet Beeby & MACH 2 Keriland's Talk About Town NF, "Gabby"
Maggie Hall & CH Kallehan's Blue Moon Rising MX MXJ OF, "Riley"
Tracey Fulmer & Lynmar My Bleu Heaven MX MXJ, "Bailey"
Brenda Vogel & Blue Bay's Hurricane Warning AX MXJ
Laurie Rent & CH Blue Hill's Swept Away MX MXJ, "Lina"

Should any of these teams choose not to attend the likely alternates are:

Eve Fishell & CH Tantara's High Tide CA MX MXJ NF, "Tide"
Lisa Frankland & CH Casey's Rae Of Sunshine UDX RE AX AXJ, "Katie Rae"

Competition will be held Dec 2nd & 3rd 2007 at the Long Beach Convention Center.

The teams qualified based on points earned between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007. One point was awarded per second under Standard Course Time with an additional 10 points awarded for each Double Q (qualifying runs in both Standard and Jumpers the same day).

Congratulations to all the teams and best of luck at the Invitational!

Last Updated: 09/17/2007, 8:34 pm