Frasier 2.5 yrs. Standing ON the new chair with feet ON the newly painted woodwork looking for birds so he can sneak outside and scare them.

Watching me water the flowers out in front of the house.

Paris 1 yr. Frasier 2.5 yrs

Paris 5 1/2 months

Paris fell asleep with a hoofie in her mouth. She is on my lap and boy did that stink.

She is 8 months old in this pic.

This picture was taken a few weeks after bringing Paris home.

Paris 2 1/2 months. Frasier 23 months.

Happy First Birthday to sweet Paris and the rest of her litter (the Calypso K litter)! And Happy First Birthday to the Calypso L litter too!

Frasier is on meds because of coughing and gagging so no Agility class tonight. Paris doesn't have whatever he has, but I didn't take her either. I really don't think he is contagious since Paris is ok, but the instructor made the final decision. The next session begins August 14. I am disappointed, but yet don't want any other animals to possibly get what Frasier has. Poop. Well, it was 90 degrees out, so maybe it's for the best??

Frasier graduated from Beginning Agility this evening!! YAY! The mom of a young girl in class took the following pictures of Frasier last week while we were practicing. He starts Intermediate Agility on July 3. The same evening, Paris starts Beginning Agility.

Agility class is so much fun! The new things learned last night were the 'table' and jumping through the 'V'. As soon as Frasier learns what is expected of him, he is right there doing it. The instructor set up 2 different short courses. Frasier did so well after the first run through on course #1 that the second time through he was not on a leash! YAY! :-) The funny part was that course #1 did not have the chute, however, the chute was beside the last object. Ole Frasier ran over to the chute and went through it! Course #2 was more difficult; it had the higher bridge, which is a bit intimidating at first. It also had 3 different jumps. All of those were things learned last week, which is the class we missed. He did very very well with course #2 also, but I just wasn't comfortable with him doing it off leash. Then we worked on the 'teeter' some more. I got some great advice from the instructor which helped a lot.

It took me about a year and a half to get my rear in gear with training classes. I am sorry it took so long, but I am grateful that I got 'the bug'.

UPDATE: I just found out that a Beginning Agility class begins June 26. On the same evening, an Intermediate Agility class begins. I'm hoping to take Paris to Beginning and Frasier to Intermediate. The only problem is that I will be out of town the first night. Hopefully that will not be an issue.

Frasier

Paris

Agility Is In Progress!

Frasier is loving agility class. Tonight was the 2nd class. We learned the teeter-totter, weave poles, jumps, a tunnel with a turn, and the tire jump. He did all of it very well! The 1st class we learned the A-frame, bridge, tunnel, and the chute. Class is cancelled for next week, but we can still go and practice on the things we have learned. And then the next week, I will be out of town. Barb (the instructor) says missing the 3rd class won't be a problem, but I sure hate to miss a class. I'm not gonna give up 4 days in Vegas though!!

I am very glad I decided not to take Paris and try to train 2 dogs at the same time. A couple of other people are doing that and it looks way too confusing for my old brain. Plus since I'm new at agility I don't think it would be fair to the dogs!

Kelly...thank you very much for posting comments. It is nice knowing that Paris and Frasier's breeder is reading about how wonderful they are :-)