Congratulations to her owners John Willmore (handling) and Diane Webb!
FC Autumn Olive von Dorndorf TD CD RE OA NAJ Wa-T BHP-G, won her Open Jumpers class today by half a second over a corgi, seven seconds under Standard Course Time! This was at the Kennel Club of Palm Springs AKC agility trial in Walnut, California.
Congratulations to her owners John Willmore (handling) and Diane Webb!
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Diane Webb sent this photo of Olive during the Long Sit exercise on Friday, Dec 10. This was at the all-breed trial where she qualified for the 3rd and final leg of her CD obedience title. Again, Great Job, Olive! (Those who may think this is easy should try it!)
I will let her happy owner Diane Webb tell the story: "I'm very proud to report that Olive earned her Rally Excellent (RE) and Novice Obedience (CD) titles today at the Shoreline Dog Fanciers Association trial in Costa Mesa CA. I can't get the smile off my face. The conditions were not wonderful (loud, crowded and smelly building, with clumps of dog hair wafting through) and Olive was not very sharp. But she persevered and earned an 81 and second place in Rally Excellent A. We got off to a very rocky start but Olive settled down and finished the course with a nice backup at heel and a good Honor down. That was Olive's third qualifying score in Rally Excellent and her RE title! Then we waited a few hours for Novice B obedience. I wasn't feeling very optimistic, particularly when I learned we would be between a rather nervous Terv and a Newfoundland for group stays. We had some problems with the individual exercises (no sit on the first halt, off to sniff a spot that nailed almost every dog on the Heel Free "Slow", and an auto finish on the recall) but also some very nice moments. The judge told us that we were qualifying but I knew those groups were coming up. We did some warmup long sits since Olive has a tendency to lie down on sit stays. Those went well, but when we were lining up for the Group Stays I could tell that Olive was not happy. The Terv was absent for stays, so we were between two Newfies. Olive wouldn't look at me and when we got into position for the sit, Olive once again refused to sit. The judge told me to "physically sit the dachshund" and I did. And the rest is history! The two dogs that got up during the Long Sit were at the other end of the line and the Newfies, while gigantic, were good. Olive held her Sit, went into a Down with no problem, and held the Down. I was ecstatic when the judge called "87, the dachshund" as a qualifier!
We got our trademark 3rd place with a 176. There were 4 qualifiers out of 14 entries with 11 dogs actually competing. Best of all, that was Olive's third Novice obedience leg and her CD title! We are done, done, done with all-breed group stays. I am very grateful to Olive for doing the two all-breed stays and I'm not going to push our luck any further. I've got a few dachshund specialty trials on my list for 2011 and we'll start working hard on Open and Utility skills. We will also be honing Olive's rally skills for RAE. Given that we got Olive in January, I am very pleased with what we've been able to accomplish. Olive is 6.5 and I'm really looking forward to continuing to work with her. Thank you, Patt -- both for suggesting that we take Olive and for giving her such good foundation skills. Our judges today were James Ham (rally) and Sharon Ann Redmer (obedience). I thought both were excellent, very pleasant judges. I also learned that you can physically put a dog into a sit or down for the stays, with a deduction. I had seen in the rules that you could do this for the Down but I wasn't sure about the Sit. I'll be floating on Cloud Nine the rest of the weekend. -- Diane and FC Autumn Olive von Dorndorf TD CD RE OA NAJ Wa-T BHP-G" What John and Diane "have been able to accomplish" since first meeting Olive in January is CD in Obedience; RN, RA, and RE in Rally; and NA, OA, NAJ, one OAJ leg so far in Agility! That's some kind of Awesome! Congratulations to all of you! FC Autumn Olive von Dorndorf TD RA OA NAJ Wa-T BHP-G was handled by her owner Diane Webb to First Place in the Rally Excellent A class for her 2nd Rally Excellent leg! This was at the Los Encinos Kennel Club event in Long Beach, California. Hey Olive, you are doing some super stuff out there in southern California! Congratulations to you, Diane, and John!
FC Autumn Olive von Dorndorf TD RA OA NAJ Wa-T BHP-G, owned by Diane Webb (handling) & John Willmore, earned her second Novice obedience leg today with a 185 and 3rd place at the Los Encinos Kennel Club trial in Long Beach, California! Olive was one of 7 qualifiers out of 13 entries at this all-breed trial preceding the National Obedience Invitational this weekend. Congratulations! Way to go! Diane wrote: "After the Long Sit, the judge told me I should be really proud of my little girl, and I told her that I WAS!! I'd be proud in any case, but watch this video of the Long Sit and you'll see why I'm REALLY PROUD of her!" FC Autumn Olive von Dorndorf TD RA OA NAJ Wa-T BHP-G, owned by John Willmore & Diane Webb, had an excellent day at the Orange Empire Dog Club's agility trial. She qualified in Open Standard (already has the title) AND won the Open Jumpers With Weaves class for her first Open Jumpers leg! Congratulations to Olive, John (handling), and Diane! Olive ran a full seven seconds under course time in the Jumpers class! Here is a video of that performance. At the Kennel Club of Palm Springs agility trial today, Olive (left) finished the Open Agility course 20 seconds under standard course time, won the class, and earned her Open Agility (OA) title! Sister Asti qualified with a 3rd place in Excellent B Jumpers! Way to go Asti and Olive!! They are owned by John Willmore & Diane Webb. Congratulations!
ABSFC Arlina Ossie von Dorndorf RA AXJ BHP-2 qualified for her second Rally Excellent leg today at the Dachshund Club of America National Rally Trial! Asti's littermate Olive, FC Autumn Olive von Dorndorf TD RA NA NAJ Wa-T BHP-G, also qualified her first time in Rally Excellent for her first RE leg! Asti and Olive are owned and handled by Diane Webb and John Willmore of Calfornia.
Diane Webb sent this photo of their two accomplished sisters Olive and Asti. They are FC Autumn Olive von Dorndorf TD RN NA NAJ Wa-T BHP-G and ABS FC Arlina Ossie von Dorndorf RA AXJ BHP-2. Diane, thank you!
"On Friday evening we drove down to San Diego through terrible weekend rush hour traffic so we could do rally and agility on Saturday. On Saturday morning I took Olive to compete in rally at the Bahia Sur show in Chula Vista, almost on the Mexican border. John headed north to Escondido to compete with Remy in agility. Remy started the day getting a double-Q in agility.
Then Olive and I qualified in Advanced A rally with an 85 and first place for her second RA leg. It was getting hot and we had a long wait while the ring stewards tried building a 4" jump with duct tape. The jump fell apart, and they had to build it again with even more duct tape. Olive seemed hot and tired on the course, but she did everything. She has yet to fail an exercise, but we're getting more slow to respond and out of position deductions than I'd like. It was getting quite hot by the time Olive and I arrived in Escondido. In Open JWW, Olive did 12 offside weave poles (yeah!) but picked up several run-outs and NQ'd. The big excitement of the day was that Olive got her Novice Standard title! She went into the wrong end of a tunnel and ran wide at places, but got a 95 and first place, 4 seconds under course time. No problems with the dogwalk or teeter. We are very happy that we won't have to stay late for Novice Standard anymore. :-) -- Diane & John" You and your crew were hot today in more ways than one! Congratulations. I am very proud of all of you. "Olive got her first Rally Advanced leg today with a 93 and first place on what was (for us) a very challenging course. the course not only had a Fast right before the finish, but also a beginning leg passing very close to the jump and an offset figure 8 in the middle of the ring. The food bowls in the Offset Figure 8 are a huge target for Olive. With all of these distractions I figured we'd be lucky to finish the course. Luckily we had a 20 minute delay before Advanced A and I borrowed someone's water bowl and heeled Olive around it.
This was the Kennel Club of Pasadena trial at Brookside Park in Pasadena -- one of our typical southern California trials in the middle of a park with a roped ring." ~ Diane Webb In today's Rally Novice trial, Olive earned her third leg with a third place and with that her RN title. She was handled by Diane Webb.
Congratulations on your good rally performances and your quick trip to the title! Good news today from California. Diane Webb writes: "Olive and I got our rally career together off to a good Start today with a 98 in Novice B Rally and first place (San Gabriel Valley Kennel Club, judge: Shirley Indelicato, 9 dogs, 6 qualifiers). Olive had her head down sniffing for the entire course, but she stayed in heel position and did every exercise very nicely. We tied on score with a Doberman, but beat them on time by almost 20 seconds. :-)
We are entered in Novice Rally again on Monday and today's performance bodes very well for getting our title. Tomorrow and Sunday Olive will go for her NA (Novice Standard agility title) and do her first runs in Open Jumpers with Weaves. Olive earned the Novice Agility Jumpers title today. John Willmore writes: Serious Smiling I'm proud to report that Olive earned her NAJ title today with a 93. :)
This was Olive's first time at this trial site, and you could tell that she didn't approve of the budget cutbacks at the Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation. The grass was mostly dead, with a lot of prickly things in it. I actually got a sticker in my finger when I was setting a jump bar. Olive's movement wasn't good - it was obvious that the ground cover was hurting her paws - but she was a trooper and did everything required on the jumpers course. She was over time, but didn't have any other faults. Between runs she was reacting the same way to the area around the practice jump and other parts of the grounds. She clearly wanted nothing to do with the standard course, even though she was excited to go into the ring. We left after four obstacles. Next weekend she's running on nice groomed dirt. We're expecting a nice run in Novice Standard for her title, but unless we have a major training breakthrough I'm guessing she'll have trouble with the 12 weave poles in Open Jumpers. -- John Olive, co-owned by John Willmore and Diane Webb, and handled by Bertha Adamson, earned a Rally Novice leg at an AKC Rally trial in California today. John and Diane are traveling on business and Bertha had come in from Colorado to manage the home front, including pinch-handling the dachshunds at the Rally trial!
Diane writes: "We got a cell phone call from Bertha yesterday while driving from Annapolis to Baltimore -- Olive got her first RN leg! I'd forgotten that the last time Olive was at Prado Regional Park it was to do tracking practice and that you were worried about all the gopher holes distracting her from tracking. Imagine doing obedience in those same conditions! Also, Bertha told me that she been confidently thinking, "No big deal, I've done rally with Olive before." Until she remembered that it was *Asti* she'd done rally with! Anyway, I'm told that Olive was very excited about doing tracking or field trials when Bertha got her out to warmup and even out on the course, but that she was a good enough girl to get a 75. They got one 10 point deduction for not completing the call front-finish right exercise (Bertha says that all the dachshunds struggled with that exercise -- there must have been some big distraction at that spot) and some tight leash, lagging and slow to respond deductions. I know from experience that the judge has a somewhat sharp pencil -- her rally scores are not gifts. Remy got a 73 in Rally Excellent, Brandy and my sister's dachshund Guinness were excused for distracted dachshund behavior. I'm hoping that Olive and I can get better scores at Mission Circuit at the end of May, but these outdoor park venues can be pretty tough for dachshunds. I'm pretty proud of Bertha and Olive for working together well enough for a Q!" "Congratulations on your weekend, Patt! An Absolute for Nexus and a bunch of other placements for Dorndorf dogs! That's great that Seiko is certified for tracking! I've posted video of Olive's first four agility runs on YouTube. I had someone else tape the final standard run, so Olive is just a little bug in the background. And this is just quick and low-res video. But these will give you a better idea of how Olive is doing. -- Diane" Southern California Portuguese Water Dog Club Held in Walnut, California (outdoors on grass) JWW judge Sherry Porter Score 100, Time 37.44 (SCT 37), First place STD judge Scott Stock Score 95, Time 60.72 (SCT 68), First place "Hi again Patt, No, that's not a picture from last weekend. Those are fresh new ribbons that Olive won at the agility trial today.
Olive earned her first 100 with her jumpers run. Once again she ran to Diane in the middle of the course, but she came back quickly and still made course time. We think that Olive expects treats from Diane, so we're going to be careful about that for a while. Once she gets used to running full courses, this will be less of an option. Her standard course was good but just as she started there was a mess of barking behind us. The first few obstacles were a little slow, but she picked it up and did well after that. There was one bobble after the dog walk, where it looks like she was heading towards the exit for some cookies, but other that the R for the next jump she recovered and finished strong. I'm really impressed with how well she's doing with so little time to get to know us. Thanks again! -- John" "I was really impressed with Olive yesterday. I think every mistake she made was really our fault -- we just don't know her that well at this point. John took a few things for granted in his handling (although he generally did a great job of handling his Novice girl). I didn't remember to tell him about her tendency to offer downs when sitting in front.
On the standard run, I was standing (with Asti in a chair and a cooler full of treats) right in her field of view from the table to the weaves. Olive has never done so many obstacles without getting treats before and I'm sure when she saw me, she thought "Cheese!" She ran straight to me, went back to John, and then came racing towards me again. John opened his arms wide and called her, and she went racing back to him. Next weekend, I'll make sure to be taping from a less visible spot. I certainly had to do that with Asti when she was getting started and even Remy initially. After the weaves, Olive tried to cut behind John to do the teeter, but she corrected quickly to do the double. Let's just say that after Asti, we will not complain about an attempt to do a wrong course teeter! Olive's entries yesterday and next Sunday were really about learning where she's at, and we did learn a lot. Olive showed that she is solid on every obstacle with the exception of weaves. I never thought she'd Qualify in both runs -- that was a pretty cool bonus. -- Diane". Dog Agility Club of Ventura Held in Walnut, California (outdoors on grass) JWW judge Larry Brockett Score 95, Time 39.31 (SCT 44), First place STD judge Terry Cullen Score 98, Time 72.92 (SCT 70), First place "Hi Patt,
You got the reader's digest version on the phone from the trial, so here is the longer version of Olive's first agility trial. After getting measured for her height card, Olive's first course was Novice Jumpers with Weaves. The course was fairly straight forward, starting with two pinwheels in an S, a C shaped tunnel, and then a jump into the weaves. The weave entrance angle was tough - the sort that Remy would miss well into his excellent career. Then another S of jumps out to the finish. Olive looked great through the first pinwheel but followed me past jump 4 (I was setting up for a front cross on the landing side). I had to take her back to the front side, and from there I made sure I stuck with every jump until she committed. That R was her only fault for the rest of the course. She was fast (39.31 seconds, under the 44 second SCT), even with the correction for the missed jump. She nailed the weaves, and ran a pretty nice line thoughout. There was a wait of about 50 minutes for the Standard course. I figure that Olive will learn how to rest between runs eventually - today she was too excited. The standard run was beautiful through the first half - tire, chute, jump, broad jump, A-frame, tunnel, dog walk, jump - was flawless. I was impressed because we haven't practiced tire, chute, or broad jump much. On the table she was quick into a sit, but I discovered that she'll start to offer a down. I had to get her back into a sit twice. I'll be practicing that this week! Then the only real glitch of the day happened. From the table we were to head to the weaves, but on the way Olive spotted Diane and Asti in the corner where Diane was filming. We lost at least 11 seconds getting Olive back to the start of the weaves, and then she didn't have the rhythm she showed on the Jumpers course. But with a bit of work we finished the weaves, went on her way to the teeter - Olive Here! that's not next! - double, teeter, jump, and panel to finish. Even with the huge detour at the weaves, Olive was only two seconds over course time. We're looking forward to running again next weekend... and we'll make sure that we learn from our mistakes today. Thanks for a great agility partner, John" |
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