The past weekend was busy, tiring, but lots of fun for the dogs. Here in California, Morrow went to her first Lure Coursing events hosted by the AKC Southern California Ibizan Hound Club in Chino over the two-day weekend. She qualified in three 550m (600 yard) courses in good time and finished her first official title in coursing ability! It's also the first coursing title for a CsV in the USA. She had a lot of fun, although there were a few hiccups - for example when she stepped on the active line and proceeded to bite it out of indignation...
So little Morrow at 14 months old is now officially "Łojma II z Peronówki CA".
Right after her Sunday morning trial she went to Nosework class and had a couple of really slow and tired interior search practices... I think she had a good weekend.. but that's not all the news..
Up in Joliet, Illinois, our Rōnin also had an amazing weekend at his UKC trials for Nosework/detection. In short, he qualified for not only the pre-trial tests in Master and Elite levels, but also two 3rd-degree Superior level Container searches and two 4th-degree Advanced Interior searches, completing his titles in both elements in their respective levels! He also managed to earn 2nd and 4th place in trials in his interior searches. Since his first detection trials in February, Rōnin has already completed a whooping five titles in individual elements. You can see his trial runs from this weekend on Marius' YouTube channel:
Trial 1 Advanced Interior | Trial 2 Advanced Interior
Rōnin's next trials are in April, for the first time in the Novice-level for vehicle and exterior searches. Congratulations to Team Marius & Rōnin, and happy training!