2 Points!

We headed down to Sauvie Island which is located on the Columbia River between Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR yesterday for the Willamette Weimaraner Club's field trial with Loki and his littlermate Jake who would be competing in his first field trail. The boys were both running the open puppy class and would be handled by their trainer this weekend so were just the doggie transport :)

Jake was in brace 1 of 4 and had a strong run for a dog who had never been in a field event before. Loki was in brace 3 and was braced against Kaiser, a Weimi that he ran against the weekend before when I handled him. Chris was feeling confident that he was going to win the event since he had been contending for 1st place at the last two events but one thing for sure when your dealing with dogs, especially a Brittany nothing is certain since it all depends on their attitude that day. After a long wait at the starting line which burned some of his energy up, Chris and Loki had their 15 minute run and showed their stuff. Loki as usual ran big and even decided to go for a swim (it was hot after all) during the run.

We all speculated on how he did while we waited for other braces to run and the judges to come in for lunch as all handlers and owners do. When the judges finally came in for lunch and placements were awarded Jake ended up getting 4th place which is great for his first event and Loki got his 1st place finish and earned his 2 puppy points towards his field championship. This win ended what has been a successful trail season for Loki since he has been in 5 field trails and placed in all of them- a third, 2 seconds, a fourth and now a first.

Congrats to Loki on a great trial season and we look forward to next year!