This girl is so amazing and such a fun baby! I have loved training and working with this girl. 🥰
I look so forward to a year of getting out and exploring with my dogs. Being more active is a big goal of mine this year.
She's one gorgeous little girl, love getting to work with not just a Dragon puppy but the lines in general. She's such a smart, good girl and picks up so easily on what I'm asking of her. Emily you bred one heck of a puppy! Can't wait to get in the ring with her next month!
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My first groom with North, I need to correct some areas and let other areas grow out but I'm happy with how she came out and have areas to tweak still. I feel like every groom is a constant work in progress haha.
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Palace struggled a lot with a chain as a younger girl. She'd put her head down and practically hang herself. Over the last few weeks I've been desensitizing her to the feel and sound of a chain. She's been doing so well!
As for the mail lady, we were several feet away from my mailbox as reference. I didn't pay any attention to the loud vehicle sound as 1 I was focusing on Palace's training, 2 I'm several feet into my driveway and 3 there is construction happening less than 20 feet from my home with diesels and heavy machinery driving back and forth.
Not once did the mail lady say anything to notify me she was driving up, just drove up and came pretty close to us. No apology, just threw (literally) the mail in the box and drove away without shutting the box. It definitely bothered me since we were a few feet away from the street and very much not in the way.
I have loved getting to start her on the right foot at a young age with training. Something I wish I could do with Palace. I can't wait for North to make her debut in June!
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Palace and North have definitely made fast friends haha!
Always a bunch of fun happening with these four cuties. 🥰
This girl, can you believe she's just over 2 now? If you would have told me when she was a baby that I'd show her to champion in just 2½ weekends, I never would have believed you. I was told by everyone she'd be hard to finish, she wouldn't be competitive because she's only 21 inches tall. But here we are, working on our free stacking and lead training, building confidence and training for dog sports, aiming for her grand next year!
I really never would have thought I'd even show this girl when she was a pup. Truly if it wasn't for Emily pushing me and supporting me, keeping me going when I wanted to give up, I truly never would have reached this goal and started down this journey. I'm so excited for the future with Palace and now miss North and seeing how far they can go in the ring, then seeing future generations and what they do and accomplish!
I'm so excited to embark on this show journey with North and can't thank Emily with @firstclasspoodles for the opportunity and entrusting me with this gorgeous girl. I've learned so much with Palace and plan on using that knowledge to do my very best with Northie!
I'm so excited to start this next chapter. I won't be going back into the ring with Palace and Merlin until next June so while Palace grows back out (cause she is still going through coat change) we're gonna be starting agility, obedience and maybe dock diving and/or barn hunt, gundog, who knows! For now we are going to be diving in to agility and obedience. 🥰