Rose City Fun

This weekend we headed down to Portland for the Rose City Classic Dog Show which was taking place at the Portland Expo Center since Odin was being shown by his handler Kevin Chestnut in the Friday, Saturday and Sunday shows. We only were able to see him show on Sunday since Friday we worked and Saturday his ring time was at 8am. Since we knew we were going to miss the morning show we debated going down Saturday afternoon or leaving bright and early Sunday. After a quick search of things going on we found cheap tickets, only $12 per ticket, to the Trailblazers game Saturday night so we decided to head down that afternoon and catch the game and stay close to the expo center so that we could head over in the morning and meet up with our friends who were showing their Irish Setter and our trainer’s daughter who was showing in Junior handlers.

When we got to the show on Sunday and met up with Kevin he said the weekend theme for Odin had been consistently second in his class since he was being a dork on the leash and part of winning in confirmation is the train ability/how they behave on the leash in the ring. Once we heard this we figured our chances for doing anything spectacular in that afternoon’s show was slim since he has never been super behaved on a show leash.

We decided that since seeing Ben got him all worked up we leave for a while and allow him to settle down before show time. Ben and I headed over to the Agility area to watch the events. Wow, some of those dogs have some serious hops as we watch everything from a Poodle to a Rottweiler run through the course. By far the most common dog competing in the Agility coursers were the border collie since they are smaller, compact dogs who can jump very well. As we expected, Odin dorked around again and took second in his class to Brittany that was not as good looking but since he was behaved he advanced and we did not.

With a weekend of missed major points, and still in pursuit of the 2 major wins and the last 10 points we need for the title we regrouped with Kevin and discussed the strategy for upcoming shows and what he needed us to work on with Odin. After getting our homework of working with him on walking and behaving on the show leash and to get another couple of pounds we decided to head for home.

Wish us luck as it looks like we will be heading to Albany, Oregon in three weeks for another weekend of shows for Odin.