Jinn and Cash go to their first agility trial!

Jinn and her best boyfriend Cash went to their very first Agility trial Nov 27-29 at In the Zone. Deb Baracco was nice enough to shoot some great pics of their puppy playtime together. They are a stitch!

Mojo ITZ Reserve Grand Champion and 10,000 Lifetime Points!!

Mojo & the Momma Reserve Grand Champs!

From L-R Myself with Mojo, Judge Sunny Williams and Tom Moloney-Harmon with Maddie

We had a good weekend at ITZ. Mojo got all 3 Jumpers Qs for a total of 8 straight now. Luxx got a kickass weavers. Mojo earned his 10,000 Point Award on Saturday. That means he has qualified over 1,000 times in NADAC!! Part of those 10,000 points went toward him being awarded the Reserve ITZ Grand Champion on Sunday. Lisa kept a running total of Qs for all 7 of her trials in MD/NJ this year and Tom Moloney-Harmon and Maddie came in first with 740 points total. Mojo and I were a close second with 730 points! We came in second to a team whom I not only respect and call my friends, but who was the #1 Dog in NADAC for 2009! Not too shabby baby boy! ;) It was a good way to end the year with ITZ. Oh and did I mention that the ribbon was GORGEOUS?!!

Mojo NATCH-8/Versatility NATCH-8

Finally after a slump in Jumpers that was getting really depressing, Mojo nailed the first Jumpers at All About Animals! in Delaware on November 14th to earn his NATCH-8/Vers-NATCH-8! After his bout with RMSF in the summer it's good to finally see him looking good again!

Midian welcomes the newest member of the Bailey Pack!

On November 8, Josh will be flying home with our newest baby. Her name is Andalin's Dance on Fire, henceforth to be known as "Jinn." She is my new agility prospect and I have very high hopes for her as both a performance dog and a breed ring dog and also a possible foundation. Fingers crossed that she loves it all as much as I do!

For more information on the litter, including pedigree see Andalin's website here.


I will be posting updates with her progress once she gets home and we start our journey together.

Luxx earns her NATCH-4!

On Saturday, September 5 Luxx earned her last needed Chances leg to complete her NATCH-4 at All About Animals! in Townsend, DE. Nadia Barrett was our judge and she brought some fun, but very challenging courses. Luxx actually got a WICKED hard Chances on Sunday as well. Only 4 dogs in Elite and 1 dog in Open managed this feat!! There were no survivors in Novice... :( I am SUPER proud of her for nailing that course! She had an excellent weekend, going 9 for 12 and really just maintaining a good work ethic through the whole trial.



Mojo also looked good, we worked some startlines to tune up for Championships in 2 weeks but he still ended up 7 for 12 and ended the weekend with a BEAUTIFUL Jumpers run that just made my heart sing. It finally felt like my boy was back. He seems to continue to improve after his terrible ordeal with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever this Summer so I am optimistic now that he's going to be just fine.

One more trial left and then we leave for Tennessee to compete in our fourth NADAC Championships. It will be Mojo's first as a Veteran, my how time flies... *sniff*

Calendar Kids!

Mojo and Luxx have made it into 3 Calendars for 2010! I knew getting their pics done by as many photographers as possible would pay off eventually. LOL

First there is the Willowcreek Press Calendar



Luxx is Miss April!


Next we have the Brown Trout Calendar


Luxx appears to be Miss April again. And Mojo is the middle pic, second row up from the bottom. Running at the camera with a big smile!


Last, but certainly not least is the Petprints Calendar


Mojo and Luxx are the cover dogs! And also Mojo is Mr July with the bucket of flowers. What a good sport he is! :) I think it's pretty darned cool that they are going to be in stores and other folks will buy them and hang them on their wall. Curious to see what they make it in next year!

NATCH 7 Mojo!!

On the last run of the trial at PAWZAZZ Mojo and I had the UGLIEST Jumpers run in existence and he somehow came out clean and earned his NATCH-7 and Versatility NATCH-7!! That boy is full of surprises. This was a special one for me as it's his 7th NATCH and he turns 7 on June 30. That also means this was his last as a non-Veteran dog. He will be a 16" jumper from July on!




Mojo says NATCH? NO PROBLEM!!! Bring on the tough stuff. I eat NATCHes for breakfast. LOL

Luxx does it again!

Well, I braved the snow piling on and freezing cold in State College. Add to that, my nearly succumbing to the plague (gawd awful respiratory illness/general malaise) and it made for one hell of a weekend! I had almost no voice, much to my friends benefit. ;) And no energy either. Still, both of my dogs ran pretty darn well in spite of me. Mojo ran a breathtaking Regular on Friday, his time was off the charts for what he normally turns in. He was just really fired up after spending so much time just laying around in bed with me. Not to mention he LOVES the surface at the Ag arena up there. The sound of his feet thumping on it as we ran just made my heart smile.

But the superstar of the weekend was my little Luxxie-poo. She nailed her Chances run on Saturday and got her NATCH-3! The two of us didn't get much right at this trial, but we did accomplish what we came for!




By Sunday I was feeling a little worse for wear, so Auntie Paula ran Luxx in Regular Round 2. It was the funniest thing I've seen in a long time and they even Q'd. Luxx loves Paula and it was so cool to see them run together. She even nailed her weaves! WTG girls!

We managed to make it home safely, going down the mountain out of State College is a bit hectic, I can tell you. I have paid the price for pushing it over the weekend, but it was well worth the suffering.