Wishing my sweet birdy boy, Loki a very happy 2nd birthday. While he's not home with us to celebrate his big day I know that he's having a fun day filled with birds down at his trainers place in Eagle Creek, Oregon doing birdy training.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Blue for Two
This past weekend we headed back to Madras, Oregon to the Boyce Corral located in the grasslands for the Oregon Brittany Club's walking field trial to run Odin in Open Gun Dog (OGD) and Loki in Open Derby (OD) for the last time before he turned two on the 18th and would age of out puppy events. The weather for the weekend was in the upper 80's which meant trouble for the dogs since it would hot and scenting conditions would be tough in the heat. Also since it was going to be hot we would be starting super early each day which equals no sleeping in for the people.
Saturday morning Ben was up with Odin in the fourth brace of OGD which meant it was late morning and still a little cool, mere 70's not 90"s yet for the day. They started off strong with Odin making a big cast to the top of the ridgline before he found his first bird which he pointed and held steady. After they worked the bird Odin quickly came onto a wild-flushed bird which proved to be a little too much for him and he chased it. This ended their run at 20 minutes of a 30 minute run but we were pleased with his performance overall.
Ben spent the rest of the day shooting mice and helping bagging birds. It became a past time of everyone to keep track of how many mice Ben and Chris each shot. Unfortunately no one kept an official count but we think it was a couple dozen over the three days.
Sunday was the much anticipated derby run for Loki where we all had our fingers, toes and paws crossed for a solid run and at least one bird find. Ben and I decided it would be good to see the competition so we walked the first two braces to see those four dogs and how they ran before we ran Loki in brace 4. He had a strong run and 2 separate points of which one he held for at least 45 seconds and impressed the judges with. After his run we watched his litter mate run and then waited for placements.
When placements were handed out, we came up victorious in the nick of time and won his derby points by taking first place in the Open Derby and earned an additional 2 points towards his field championship. This also qualifies him to run in Limited stakes when he comes out as a broke dog! We are very proud of what Loki and his trainer Chris Tewes of Double Gun Ranch accomplished this spring trial season.
Saturday morning Ben was up with Odin in the fourth brace of OGD which meant it was late morning and still a little cool, mere 70's not 90"s yet for the day. They started off strong with Odin making a big cast to the top of the ridgline before he found his first bird which he pointed and held steady. After they worked the bird Odin quickly came onto a wild-flushed bird which proved to be a little too much for him and he chased it. This ended their run at 20 minutes of a 30 minute run but we were pleased with his performance overall.
Ben spent the rest of the day shooting mice and helping bagging birds. It became a past time of everyone to keep track of how many mice Ben and Chris each shot. Unfortunately no one kept an official count but we think it was a couple dozen over the three days.
Sunday was the much anticipated derby run for Loki where we all had our fingers, toes and paws crossed for a solid run and at least one bird find. Ben and I decided it would be good to see the competition so we walked the first two braces to see those four dogs and how they ran before we ran Loki in brace 4. He had a strong run and 2 separate points of which one he held for at least 45 seconds and impressed the judges with. After his run we watched his litter mate run and then waited for placements.
When placements were handed out, we came up victorious in the nick of time and won his derby points by taking first place in the Open Derby and earned an additional 2 points towards his field championship. This also qualifies him to run in Limited stakes when he comes out as a broke dog! We are very proud of what Loki and his trainer Chris Tewes of Double Gun Ranch accomplished this spring trial season.
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