Rusty Rose Ranch Mini American Shepherds

01/10/2025

01/08/2025

This week's baby dog training videos. She's coming along!

01/04/2025

Glen Rose rally results!

Nessie and Sonic both brought home a triple Q. It was Nessie's first and Sonic's 11th! Also Nessie's first RAE leg. Most scores were in the mid 90s except for a broad jump snafu in advanced so pretty proud of the crew. Nessie was 94 her first time in the master ring (and some of the points were handler error). I'll take that, especially at a big show with a lot more environmental distractions than she's used to.

"Honorary aussie" Nicky also finished his excellent title! He outscored both my girls in excellent today!

01/01/2025

Happy New Years to all our Rusty Rose Ranch extended family!

What a crazy year it's been. Seeing the Spyro/Nago puppies turn a year old has been amazing and I'm so proud of all them. Both Nessie and Raptor have entered the sport world and are doing so well! I can't wait to see what the next year holds for their young careers.

This coming year, our goals include:

1) for Sonic: progressing towards her RACH. She has half her triple Qs, all the advanced/excellent points she needs and still needs quite a few Master points. We would also like to finish her Novice agility titles as time and money allows!
2)For Nessie, we are starting her RACH journey the first weekend in January and hope to get at least half way there and also her RAE this year. We are already qualified for RNC but if we could qualify in Masters, that would be great! We would like to do her FastCat debut soon and hopefully her AKC novice agility debut. We are working on weaves, but as soon as we get that down, we will be ready to rock in roll.
3)For Spyro, she has finally started to settle as she ages, so we hope to really focus on agility this year. We will also probably get spayed this year.
4) Nago has settled a lot since his neuter and will hopefully get back into rally soon.

We are so excited to see what this year brings!

Thank you to all our friends, family and supporters. Good luck in the new year!

12/28/2024

Pics of my girls at the last trial!

12/21/2024

Elvira says it's already snowing up where she lives!

12/21/2024

12/13/2024

Just had to share these adorable photos of Beau with his kiddos!

He's in an active pet home with a good friend of mine who also owns Nago's full sister.

He's living his best life.

12/08/2024

Nessie finished both her Advanced and Excellent titles this weekend!

In the 9 runs from novice through Excellent, she had 8 first place finishes and one second place (which was 100% handler error). She also had 4 perfect scores.

We will be working towards her RAE and RACH next year and also getting ready for agility competition!

Sonic finished her Rally Master title this weekend and won a good handful of RACH points this weekend! She finished her RAE at her last show and took advantage of this lovely backdrop for ribbon pictures!

Sonic also won HIGH TRIPLE !!!! Our first time ever!!!!

12/08/2024

What a great rally day!

Sonic got a triple Q towards her RACH, got 3rd place in Excellent with a 99, and tied for 4th place in Advanced with a perfect score.

Nessie finished her advanced title in the morning with a first place and score of 97.

She went into Excellent for the first time in the afternoon and won the class with a perfect score. I'm so proud of my little monster!

12/01/2024

More Nessie FEO fun

11/30/2024

Nessie FEO run

11/30/2024

Spyro had a slight issue with the rear cross but still a very nice qualifying, first place run in Nov pref. JWW. Anyone who knows us knows about how we've struggled with start lines, weave entries, SMASHING into bars, overarousal, nipping, and jumping etc. None of that this time!

23.9 second run, 4.9 yards per second. I'm proud and happy!

I can remember when she was about 18 months, someone said "that's gonna be a nice dog when she hits 4 or 5" and thought that sounded like a crazy amount of time to wait for her to mature. Well, she's 4 and just starting to find her brain so I guess they were right!

Sonic didn't fair so well, she was distracted.

Nessie did her 2nd ever FEO run and is just having fun in the ring right now!

Stay tuned for standard results later.