Piccolo's Niall Delaney, aka Neely

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Piccolo's Niall Delaney, aka Neely

Piccolo's Niall Delaney ("Neely"), blue male poodle competing in rally and obedience.

03/23/2024

Neely went to play in the AKC Veterans class with our friends on St. Patrick's Day 2024 at Dog Owners' Training Club of MD's rally and obedience trials. Veterans is a non-licensed class so nobody "fails," but all dogs would have passed it anyway! (Mary Webb and Nick, Marcia Bresson and Spy, Judge Karen S., Marsha (?) and her 16-year-old Chinese Crested, and Marguerite and Neely.)

05/14/2023

04/24/2023

Neely completed his URX7 UKC Rally title on April 23. Each URX title requires 10 qualifying scores in Level 2 and 3 in the same trial. He's done that 7 times. Now 11 years old and still doing well, he came from Evelyn Comer and Piccolo's Poodles.

03/27/2023

Neely got to play last weekend and finished a title!

Piccolo's Niall Delaney, aka Neely and Hobbes Delaney played in WCRL Rally on Saturday and Sunday at Breakaway Action Dogs, Inc. Neely completed his Rally Veteran Championship with very nice scores each trial. Hobbes finished his Level 2 title on Saturday and started collecting QQs and points toward the ARCH championship.

210 is a perfect score. Results:
—Neely = RLV 210, 208, 210, 208
—Hobbes = RL2-A 209, 210; RL1-B 207, 207; RL2-B, 210, 209

10/30/2022

Neely has a grand time at My K9 Buddy, finishing his WCRL Veteran title and a leg in the B class. He's on the left. That's Hobbes on the right.

01/19/2022

01/15/2022

Neely's newest award or title, Versatility Certificate Master, VCM. Our submission listed championships in conformation, obedience, and rally, plus temperament, trick dog, and health testing.

11/23/2021

Neely is still the man ... he won the Champion class in Conformation, best of 3 dogs entered, which makes it his third Grand Champion win at 9 years and 9 months old. The judge said that of all the dogs she saw there that day, he had the kind of structure that she'd take into the hunt field. UKC conformation has the poodles in the Gun Dog group. (11/20/2021, OTCH in Mechanicsburg, PA)

07/11/2021

It was a grand weekend for Neely (the dog on the right), who was clearly tired of Hobbes getting all the attention. He finished three major championship titles in Companion Dog Sports Program, for his 78th, 79th, and 80th performance titles.
He earned UDX-C8 on Saturday and Versatility Dog Championship #2 (VT-CCH2) **AND** Obedience Trial Championship #5 (OTCH-C5) on Sunday. All titles are pending confirmation from CDSP Headquarters, of course.
Hobbes? He earned 4 more scores toward a Novice Championship, all in the 190s.

03/18/2021

Neely had fun at conformation shows with lots of other Piccolo's Poodles.

Congratulations to Neely on winning Reserve Champion twice last weekend at the OTCH UKC conformation shows. Neely is from our 2012 litter

03/13/2021

Wait, what? This must be from 2019,but I'm blessed if I remember entering rally that year.

03/01/2021

Neely's first title of 2021! The Rally Master Champion title requires 100 points from levels URO2, URO3, and UROM. I didn't realize he earned the title until I entered his scores in the spreadsheet. (Yeah, I do that.) He had 7 points to spare. We were at TNT Canine's trials.

02/22/2021

Neely placed well into the top 10 on UKC's 2020 Rally Obedience All Star list in the Master class.

02/20/2021

Neely's first time on the UKC Obedience All Stars list!

02/04/2021

These should be final--Neely is #5 in the UKC Rally Master All Stars for 2020. And he's ranked #37 in his first appearance on the UKC Obedience All Stars list in Open.

01/25/2021

Pending verification by UKC, it looks like Neely earned the United Rally Master Champion title on Sunday! His neglectful handler didn't realize it until she entered his scores into her records.

01/25/2021

We are saddened to learn of the passing of Neely's mom, Pepper. She lived a full and happy life with her family of Evelyn and Tom and the Piccolo Poodles.

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Videos

Neely had a nice weekend at CDSP trials at OTCH in Mechanicsburg Aug. 19-20. He failed his first run (Utility C)--the first exercise was the moving stand for exam and maybe he didn't realize it was time to work. Instead, he wiggled at judge Joan Klingler, turned around, and sniffed her pockets. He redeemed himself by winning his Open C class over some very good dogs. AND he nailed both his Utility B baseball bonuses. At left is judge Anne Papalia, who awarded him four of the rosettes shown. (This is the first time we've tried the "slideshow" option. I elected to not add any music--you're welcome.)

Neely's Bowl Trick

Neely taught himself this trick.

Neely's UDX-C3 and OTCH-C run

This is Neely's run to finish both UDX-C3 and OTCH-C on May 26, 2017, at Bella Vista Training Center. The test score was 190.5, which by itself finished UDX-C and was worth 4 OTCH points. We also did the bonus, which was scored at 18 points out of a possible 20. That brought the total score to 208.5, making it worth 15 OTCH points--4 more points than we needed to finish the OTCH-C title.

Neely's first AKC Versatility Q

Here's the video of Neely's first Versatility qualifying score. Judge Craig Bohren was presiding with good humor at the totally full trials. Neely and I were the last team of the day.