corgi-traveler wrote: I'm confused. The dog is competing for NZ, here in the States? With a different handler?
Enjoyed several of your video clips. Nice contacts (we, like most corgis, use running contacts, though, or we'd never make time)
The handler is from NZ. NZ and Australia have restrictive quarantine laws - basically it takes months to get their dogs back once they get back home when traveling outside of their countries. So the USDAA helps the international organization find "loaner" dogs for the handlers to compete with so they aren't deprived of competition. The owner of training school where my wife trains submitted a video of Journey, and they immediately wanted him. The competition is being held in Ft. Worth, about an hour from where we live, so it's workable. Journey will basically run for anybody. My wife will be on the sidelines.
He gets lots of compliments on his contacts, and won't dare take his rear paws off of one until he gets the go ahead. Fast dogs just have a tendency to miss that crucial yellow area (as you know), if you don't train them that way.
The handler is from NZ. NZ and Australia have restrictive quarantine laws - basically it takes months to get their dogs back once they get back home when traveling outside of their countries.
They either ride borrowed horses; or bring theirs with the intent-to-sell after they compete in the USA.
ETex2 wrote: USDAA helps the international organization find "loaner" dogs for the handlers to compete with so they aren't deprived of competition.
He gets lots of compliments on his contacts, and won't dare take his rear paws off of one until he gets the go ahead. Fast dogs just have a tendency to miss that crucial yellow area (as you know), if you don't train them that way.
OK, that makes perfect sense about the handler situation.
Corgis can certainly be fast (Diva is!), and a lot of corgi people were using 2o2o but started having back and shoulder problems. Standard is on hold for us till late fall. Our big goal is a clean JWW run at our National specialty in September. There is a Performance Triathlon with a big award to the dog with the highest cumulative score across any three performance events, so we will take on Herding (a regular sport for us, and Buddy's main gig), Obedience (my personal favorite, and Diva's main gig), and Agility (I don't like it as much, but need the points!) to round it out.
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