Granger earns his CD

[bradl]

 Granger earned his third qualifying leg and therefore his CD (Companion Dog)  title this Saturday at the Wild Rivers Cluster in Roseburg, OR.  

 

His score was 186.5 which I was pleased with considering it was a fairly challenging environment: a carpeted ring that by the third day had been peed on, pooped on, and the second dog in the ring in his class that very morning vomited in the ring!  Needless to say many of the dogs were distracted over in that corner of the ring for the rest of the weekend. Several exhibitors ended up referring to that quadrant as Calamity Corner. 

 

Granger nearly qualified the day before but we NQ'd when he started his recall before the judge gave me the signal. Oops. He was only entered Friday/Saturday of a four-day cluster so that meant he had to do it on Saturday, and he did. Good boy.

 

Granger seems to love to work. I think he will have FUN in Open (eventually). 

 

Speaking of Open, in which Stella was entered Thursday/Sunday … uh, on second thought, let's not speak of that at all.  

Edited November 17, 2014 by bradl
score typo

[Kathryn]

Very very impressed.  Getting any cairn to this level is a HUGE accomplishment - they are so distracted by scent! Congratulations.

[hheldorfer]

Congrats, Granger (and Brad too)!

[Sam I Am]

What a great pair! Congrats. And Stella, the one that will remain unspoken about, ....a girls flirty moment is allowed occasionally.

[kieiras mom]

congratulations to both of you.

[eastofeden]

WOOT!  Congratulations Brad & Granger!

[Hillscreek]

Well done Granger and Brad. Maybe Stella willfeel it's worthwhile some other day.

[Autumn & Lola]

Congrats to both of you! What a lovely (and impressive!) accomplishment!

[josie&holly]

Congratulations!

[bradl]

Thank you. I don't want to discount the effort because it surely does take some, but I want to be very clear that virtually every Cairn  here can can do this too. Now whether you want to is another matter entirely.

 

I hesitate to post this because he has such a serious-looking face in it (also, ungroomed etc.), but here's G suffering through his handlers need to document the moment with a show photo.