Hot Rod Hounds Flyball Team

09/20/2024

09/02/2024

Thank you to Portland Tail Blazers for a great weekend of racing in Tillamook. Congratulations to Diana and Madison for earning their Hobbes! Beverly and Zeke for FM and Thea and Ripley for earning their very first points.

08/16/2024

During flyball practice today I won a bet by working with the owner to train a very distracted 2 year old dog to complete the whole pattern and carry the ball all the way back. Her husband says "oh no, I meant, he had to be fully trained, tournament ready". This caused me to laugh thinking of all the "fully trained dogs" and silly things they've done through out the years. And go......

08/01/2024

Here it is! Congrats Ella. The first English Cocker Spaniel to earn 40K

07/16/2024

This amazingly sweet girl did something special this weekend. She set a record. Hopefully the first of many. Ella became the first English Cocker Spaniel to earn 40,000 points in NAFA flyball. A team sport where 4 handlers race 4 dogs against a team of 4 other dogs. They jump over 4 jumps, retrieve a ball from a triggered box then return. A relay race. Fifty one feet down and fifty one feet back. If that team does it in under 24 seconds, without any errors, they earn 25 points.

Ella is considered a height dog. The smallest dog on the team sets the jump heights and they are the one that jumps their height. She's not fast, but she's steady and she's stylish. So many people will watch the race and cheer for her, ask what type of dog she is or just comment on her non stop wiggle.

She is currently the number 1 ranked flyball ECS in the nation and has been running around 2 years. We're thankful to have her in our lives and thankful to our teammates for helping us achieve this goal.

05/20/2024

Congratulations to Kenzie for earning her flyball grand champion, 30000 points. Nice to see her come back after her time off for rehab.

05/06/2024

Archers Paradox captured some great pictures at the Lodi tournament in March 2024.

04/23/2024

UPDATE!! SHE HAS BEEN ADOPTED!!!❤️🎉
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04/22/2024

Congratulations to our Bay Racers teammates for knocking down some big titles this weekend. Suzanne and Heist, 50,000 and Dawn and Singe, 60,000. Awesome job!

04/22/2024

Hot Rod Hounds Flyball Team sends our condolences to Barkworthy Flyball Team and the Wescott family. Jasmine was a kind soul who we remember fondly while running in Region 5.

03/03/2024

Everyone who is thinking of getting dogs should read this because you need to understand this reality:

***I am a 21st century dog.***
-I'm a Malinois.
Overskilled among dogs, I excel in all disciplines and I'm always ready to work: I NEED to work.
But nowadays I get asked to chill on the couch all day everyday.

-I am an Akita Inu.
My ancestors were selected for dog fighting.
Today I get asked to be tolerant and I get scolded for my reactivity when another approaches me.

-I am a Beagle.
When I chase my prey, I raise my voice so the hunters could follow.
Today they put an electric collar on me to shut up, and you make me come back to you - no running - with a snap of your fingers.

-I am a Yorkshire Terrier.
I was a terrifying rat hunter in English mines.
Today they think I can't use my legs and they always hold me in their arms.

-I'm a Labrador Retriever.
My vision of happiness is a dive into a pond to bring back the duck he shot to my master.
Today you forget I'm a walking, running, swimming dog; as a result I'm fat, made to stay indoors, and to babysit.

-I am a Jack Russell.
I can take on a fox, a mean badger, and a rat bigger than me in his den.
Today I get scolded for my character and high energy, and forced to turn into a quiet living room dog.

-I am a Siberian Husky.
Experienced the great, wide open spaces of Northern Europe, where I could drag sleds for long distances at impressive speeds.
Today I only have the walls of the house or small garden as a horizon, and the holes I dig in the ground just to release energy and frustration, trying to stay sane.

-I am a Border Collie
I was made to work hours a day in partnershipwith my master, and I am an unmistakable artist of working with the herd.
Today they are mad at me because, for lack of sheep, I try to check bikes, cars, children in the house and everything in motion.

I am ...
I am a 21st century dog.
I'm pretty, I'm alert, I'm obedient, I stay in a bag...but I'm also an individual who, from centuries of training, needs to express my instincts, and I am *not* suited for the sedentary life you'd want me to lead.
Spending eight hours a day alone in the house or in the garden - with no work and no one to play or run with, seeing you for a short time in the evening when you get home, and only getting a small toilet walk will make me deeply unhappy.
I'll express it by barking all day, turning your yard into a minefield, doing my needs indoors, being unmanageable the rare times I'll find myself outside, and sometimes spending my days sunk, sad, lonely, and depressed, on my pillow.
You may think that I should be happy to be able to enjoy all this comfort while you go to work, but actually I’ll be exhausted and frustrated, because this is absolutely NOT what I'm meant to do, or what I need to be doing.
If you love me, if you've always dreamed of me, if my beautiful blue eyes or my athletic look make you want me, but you can't give me a real dog's life, a life that's really worth living according to my breed, and if you can't offer me the job that my genes are asking, DO NOT buy or adopt me!
If you like the way I look but aren't willing to accept my temperament, gifts, and traits derived from long genetic selection, and you think you can change them with only your good will, then DO NOT BUY OR ADOPT ME.
I’m a dog from the 21st century, yes, but deep inside me, the one who fought, the one who hunted, the one who pulled sleds, the one who guided and protected a herd still lives within.
So think very carefully before you choose your dog. And think about getting two over time, rather than one, so I won't be so very lonely waiting for you all day. Eight or ten hours is just a workday to you, but it's an eternity for me to be alone.

03/01/2024

Hot Rod Hounds Flyball Team celebrating "leap" year. Way back for some of these.

01/20/2024

Congratulations to Ella on earning her FDGCH, 30000 pts.

01/19/2024

Nevada Hounds, Oregon Hounds, California Hounds all headed towards Lindsay California for some flyball this weekend. Three teams. Looking forward to some racing fun with our friends.

12/01/2023

Just so awesome! These dogs killed it. Jack Jack is 13 years old and has his Hobbes, Ella is 3 and started running full time just over 1 year ago. Madison, Singe and Heist were all rock stars and Kenzie is just returning from her rehab. Not one mistake.

11/20/2023

Six dogs ran (Singe, Heist, Madison, Ella, Kenzie and Jack Jack)
Five different handlers
Four states crossed to get there
Three different balls
Two amazing teammates box loading and ball sh****ng and two more cheerleading
One first place team without any errors and all 25 point runs!

11/16/2023

Away we go thru rain and snow
To Northern Regions we well know
With friends and dogs in tow
There may be wind, there may be squalls
It's likely Madison will cause a fall
OMG did we bring Ella's special balls?

11/11/2023

This is Carson. Shes a 4 month old Aussie who joined us for flyball practice with her big sister, Scout, an 11 year old Aussie.

11/06/2023

Friday we had an amazing practice with several up and coming rockstars. HRH is mostly green dogs currently and they all did great. Danny, Kiwi, Ripley and Whisper doing the full pattern flawlessly. Obie and "surfer dude" doing the pattern without the ball. We had 2 new border collies and an aussie come out as well that showed great potential for their first time out.

10/08/2023

Ella sleeping with her prize from the Tillamook flyball tournament. Thanks Portland Tail Blazers Flyball Club