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LIving up to the beautiful RACH Kincavel's EarlySunRise@PrairieFlats' potential for "All the Things"

07/15/2024

Not a show weekend...🌼&💠
Gotta get in the water retrieves and compete for the Queen of the Prairie

07/04/2024

Happy 4th of July🎉A frolicking good time was had🎉
💙💚💛
SuzieQ🌼 & GlorieB💠

06/23/2024

I'd like to thank Stephanie for putting us onto this service, like Air B&B for dogs.
We've gone to two different spots and they are wildly different (1 acre vs .11 acre with a pool) and we have loved them both. I don't want a pool I have to clean but I live using one; I don't want to mow an acre, but I love seen my dogs have room to stretch out their legs. The hosts have been wonderful and we ❤️❤️❤️ using their yards to let the girls safely explore new places and try new things.

Togo and Mei's Fully Fenced Yard with Pool in Plano, Plano, Texas - Togo and Mei have you all set for a fun day in the sun with their private pool. Relax in our lounge chairs while your pup...

06/23/2024

Glorie Days... Argon's Life's Too Short for Commas
Day 1 of water training. Strengthening those little muscles to do all the fittings without over heating. We went from dangerous lake water levels to 98° temps so fast, but the water was perfect at 8:30AM in a local SniffSpot.

06/07/2024

Making it official... 💠GlorieB💠, our GloBug💡, is...
💠Argon's Life's Too Short for Commas💠
This girl goes all out at everything, every day. And loving time with 🌼SuzieQ🌼
We are very excited about her future and all the amazing days ahead.

05/07/2024

It's been a big couple of weeks for Glorie Days. First hospital socialization and puppy meet-up (Amos, the golden puppy, is 3 days older, same height, and 25% heavier), first evaluation and Manners sign-up, flea & tick meds, and lots of mud and baths here in North Texas.

05/04/2024

This right here is Suzie's specialty. She was invited to climb into bed with a patient having a difficult day. Suzie has worked with her in physical and occupational therapy. Here she is pressed against the patient while being stroked.
Hope lots of patients and therapy dogs find each other this week. May we be a blessing to each other.
Note: Picture taken by her husband and used with permission.

04/13/2024

Week12: My Glorie-us little fearless buddy🐝 in ⛈️, 🌞, & ⛱️ shade. Sassy pants and game for all the fun.
Potty training is finally progressing👏
6 Novice Tricks down. 4 to go for her first title🍀
Sits and turns done, proprioception is developing nicely. Tight heeling has begun🩵
3 scents started💛
Socialization with tracking handlers today💚
Ball-pool in prep for swimming lessons💙
Gaiting and stacking 🔥
And lots of bitey-face and naps💤

03/27/2024

We are officially a two dog family again. Couldn't be happier with SuzieQ's new Argon sister.

03/18/2024

It's Spring Break in Texas! Time for Road Trippin'!

02/05/2024

I've been delinquent in posting on PF so here's Christmas Eve to Jan 24 when we returned home. It was a fun month on South Padre Island and showing in Corpus Christi.

12/17/2023

Happy 4th Birthday to this beautiful girl! So many wonderful memories we're making together❣️

11/23/2023

Happy Thanksgiving, Y'all❣️ from our home to yours.

11/20/2023

I'mma hikin' puppy girl! I love my Mark 'cause he takes me hikin' in the woods with the cool air and sprinkles. He's my best pal. He cleans up my 💩 and lets me read the news and leave my news for the other doggos, too.
There was a train that made really loud "Danger, Will Robinson" noises, but it went away soon and I could smell my treats again.
Sometimes he lets me meet my new friends. Mark says I'm just like Will Rodgers about friends 'cause if they're not my friends I just haven't met them yet.
He said no swims today😕 'cause waters were falling from the sky, but I drank 3 bowls when we got back to the car.
I told Mark, "This was my favorite hike ever❣️" Mark says I say that every hike, but they all are💛

11/18/2023

This is one Fast Cat... smokin' black freight train

11/15/2023

One more weekend of this beautiful tracking and hiking mornings. Then we're off on Fast CAT...probably, but another plan may (MAY🎉) come about....good either way. Then a show weekend...maybe❣️

11/02/2023

Suzie's Life last week...
No love in conformation, but...
Fri Rally Masters 3rd over 16 teams and 7 pts
Sat Tracking proved she can happily and quickly track in pouring rain through streams and puddles. But, acutes are more challenging.
Sun Rally Masters +7 pts in a 4-way tie, broken by time.
Cracking away at Suzie's RACH2
Therapy Dog visits are up to #186: A great Breast Cancer Awareness photo shoot at Big Baylor. Two spectacular hospital visits for 120+ great visits and 1 visit fighting an anxiety reaction to their HVAC. (Special help from one of the patients she helped with anxiety his first month and now he was sharing the strategies he's learned with Suzie. It's a special bond to see him with her.)
Taking at least a month off from what use to be her favorite site and concentrating on better situations for her ...and doubling down on tracking.
🪄Also, confirmed registration for Fast CATs in NE Arkansas over Thanksgiving weekend. Glad to have some cold weather runs, if her season holds off.

10/28/2023

Tracking class was fun today🥰 Suzie loved crossing the little rivers, but wanted to swim in the little lakes on her track. I had over an inch of water in my boots, but no complaints at a nice 57°. Couldn't get a picture with all the rain on the camera😆
Happy Dog, Happy Life🥰

10/23/2023

We were about 60' from this lovely girl on our hike this morning when our grand got this picture. Suzie matched her in perfect stillness for two minutes. Guessing she might have kits nearby.
Bunnies were out running in the fields and squirrels were hopping across treetops in the wooded areas. 65° and everyone was enjoying the cooler temps. 🤞Now for some rain.

10/22/2023

So proud of this girl and her tracking.
After her run today, the instructor said, "Lots of experienced trackers would love to have a dog with this pace, natural nose, and work ethic." After our second week in intermediate, he put us forward to test so we can enter our first tracking test. Every week is better and better.
She loves tracking and Fall so much💛🍁🌟🥾💛

10/07/2023

Loved the Fast CAT & hiking last weekend, glad to be back in the agility ring and finishing up the title, but plan on enjoying the 7AM tracking class tomorrow.
Girl's gotta do what she loves...and that's everything❣️

09/22/2023

So...this.
Got to decide if we are going for the first RACH2 FCR. Already more than ⅓ there. She 💛💛💛 it so. I'm thinking it may be in her summer 2024, once it's too hot for tracking.

08/21/2023

Like to invite you all over to our webpage and blogs.

It was a hard 5 weeks, y'all! OKC to Dallas to San Antonio to Houston to Longview in July! In the end, we skipped weeks 3 (San Antonio) & 5 (Longview) because of heat, health, expense, and lack of class points... and we were planning an awesome vacation (more on that next time. With temperatures soa...

08/15/2023

Vacation with Suzie's boy Kai, August 2023: Adventuring in Chicago and Alaska
"Make that heron get off my head!"

07/25/2023

This is from the 3rd weekend of the Death March in Houston. Next weekend is the finale, but no FCR majors in Longview so putting that on hold. As you can see. Houston was busy with Confo, Rally, and a new Farm Dog Cert. Really thought we might be in for more points, but no majors with only 3 class. Deep sigh!!! But lots of Rally points, friendships, and family dinner in my hometown.

07/24/2023

06/25/2023

Versatile 🎉 starting with therapy dog work.

Everywhere we turn, there is a three-in-one product out there. Now you can add a championship Flat Coated Retriever to the mix. Meet sweet, goofy...

06/22/2023

Again, this...
Waiting and taking precautions is part of being a good dog health custodian.

06/22/2023

Absolutely lovely!
Enthusiastic, versatile, biddable dogs that can do all the dog sports and still be calm indoors. A healthy FCR needs 2-4 hrs of activity over the day in 15 min to 1 hr increments. Suzie has simply the perfect coat for us: thick, flat, wash 'n wear, dry out of the lake or pool or spray off in as hour we without dryer, minimal grooming (nails and brushing, weekly bath for therapy dogs) of 30 min a week + 1 hr/season change leaves more time for fun activities like hiking and travel together.

06/17/2023

Happy 3½ years🎉 to our beautiful, smart, accomplished SuzieQ💛
RACH Kincavel's EarlySunRise@PrairieFlats CD BN RAE3 RM3 NAJ NJP NAP NFP CA FCAT THDA CGCA CGCU TKA. ...and more to come.
We're still trying to live up to all the things you want to do, so back in the agility ring for the weekend.
She wants to know if she can trade the ribbons for treats✅

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Happy 4th of July🎉A frolicking good time was had🎉 💙💚💛 SuzieQ🌼 & GlorieB💠

Glorie Days... Argon's Life's Too Short for Commas Day 1 of water training. Strengthening those little muscles to do all the fittings without over heating. We went from dangerous lake water levels to 98° temps so fast, but the water was perfect at 8:30AM in a local SniffSpot.

We don't often get a chance for pictures together -the three of us. For he FCAT title it's been the three of us the whole journey - 2 years (41 runs) in the books. Thanks, Triniti, for the great pictures to capture the moment. After an hour in the sun,, with her coat soaking up the heat, she wasn't at her best, but SuzieQ did what she needed to do to complete the title. And she earn a 3rd place in Rally Masters with a nice run. Then we checked out UpDog Challenge and headed to Waffle Champion for our Breakfast of Champions. Now for a nap💤💤💤

We're taking a a month off from being judged to do some things Suzie loves most... (And watch her relatives at Westminster this week) For this year we're opting out of both FCRSA and Rally National Championships due to time & expense in order to focus on getting her Rally (done!) and Conformation (🤞🍀) championships. To get our happy. athletic girl ready to show, we're about...lake water retrieves, agility training, getting chiro work, learning frisbee, hiking, family time, tracking, handling classes, and lots of therapy dog visits to mental health, college finals, cancer and rehab hospitals. Suzie's loving May...before the heat gets too intense. Back into the ring and on the field for Memorial Day weekend to Aug 1 with Fast CAT, Rally, Conformation, Agility and checking out Dock and Disc. Then she's headed to Alaska with us for a week💛🍀

Foto dump coming here...

SuzieQ finished her 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Coursing Ability Test Qs (CABT) and earned a new title (pending approval), adding CA. SuzieQ has learned to pace herself a little and ran 6 football fields X4 and actually caught the "bunnies" during two runs. One of those times she said, "job done!" And came back to me without following the other two bunnies the last 100 yards but, "Hey, job done! Let's celebrate!" Remember: any dog with sight prey drive can do this. (Bonus: you don't have to run with them🥳) Short-leggers only do a 300 yd test. Brachs and double-coats run earlier in cooler temps. Check the rules on AKC for CABT. Next week is Rally 2X2 in Houston and hanging with my Bubba. Closing in on Suzie's RACH 🏅 In two weeks we Fast CAT (100 yd timed) 🐇🐇🐇 in Vinita, OK, go hiking, check in on some friends who moved nearby ... and spend an afternoon at Agility Nationals in Tulsa. 🍀🍀🍀Hoping the luck of the Irish brings us our FAST title🍀🍀🍀 So excited!!!

To be fair, it's not all win weekends. We're working through a bad experience a couple of months ago on this particular dog walk, so sometimes it goes like this... Watch her look for the quickest way out of the ring when she turns the corner and sees the dog walk. We did have a somewhat better run on Sunday, but... work to do.

What it takes to make Suzie HAPPY: Mark, 50-60° temps, a lake with birds, a stick, & 5+ acres of running room

3 sec video clip... that's taken 5 days to post. Reviewing and reviewing the video from last Sunday in Hot Springs and what the judges said about Suzie. Saturday the judge said she was "the most fit FCR in the ring." And, taking some things they learned Sat, the Mark & Suzie Team 'knocked it out!" on Sunday. With no points on the line and going in with 4 Specials, the judge said that, if the rules allowed her to do it, she would place her second!!! It was a beautiful line up, so that meant the world to us at a time when we are chasing the major wins with not enough class entries to get there. Three more practice weekends until a shot at the major wins in December.

Tracking Day 34: a little trail run, a little tracking (2 tracks totalling 225', 3 legs, aged 35-45 min), and a little lake retrieving. 2PM and 49° w/4mph wind. Lovely day and lovely practice for SuzieQ.