Random Pet Photo of the Day - 2020 - post yours!
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MelonJ
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Someone’s nifty vest came in! Amazingly, even with rude South Florida drivers, people in their cars waited for us to cross or for him to sit at the corner of an intersection before moving ahead. We’re still working on auto-sits when I stop with distractions around. He has a tendency to just stand and look around or sit facing the distraction instead of in a heel. And sometimes he’ll whine as he’s sitting bc he just doesn’t want to.
But we’re trying...lol.
But we’re trying...lol.
jazzies mum
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^^^^^^ Awwww, he'll wake up with face creases! 
MelonJ
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YES! Haha! DeSoto does this too! (with the floor! LOL!) I’m like...HOW? How is that comfortable?! 
crypticintent
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Lizbeli
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Gosh I haven’t stopped by here in so long. Some of these photos have me giggling at work! Jasper folds his lips in when he is focused and wants whatever toy I have XD
And no, my house isn’t that blue because of the reef tank. LEDs and phone cameras dont mix!
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And no, my house isn’t that blue because of the reef tank. LEDs and phone cameras dont mix!
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jazzies mum
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Exactly how much water was in this creek in the flash flood? A lot!!! 
This is Jazz digging where she had been before on the edge of the water.
Pic is taken from nearly the same place!
That small island in front...............................
is the same mound that Jazz is on.
The flash flood was so big and so sudden that it has lifted huge logs from the river bed that have been there since I have been walking here. Gouged huge areas of bank and left some gums hanging by a few roots. The whole place is terraformed!
This is Jazz digging where she had been before on the edge of the water.
Pic is taken from nearly the same place! That small island in front...............................is the same mound that Jazz is on.
The flash flood was so big and so sudden that it has lifted huge logs from the river bed that have been there since I have been walking here. Gouged huge areas of bank and left some gums hanging by a few roots. The whole place is terraformed!
jazzies mum
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^^^^^ I'd love to see Kali do a mini Fastcat course! 
Oh, gosh, you wouldn't see her! Just a blur going by.^^^^^ I'd love to see Kali do a mini Fastcat course!
obbanner
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AJ earned his first leg for his Barn Hunt Senior title (RATS) yesterday with a First Place.
We were in two trials and I blew the first one by calling "Rat!" too quickly. AJ was trying to get under a leaner hay bale - he wasn't indicating a rat, but he was so intent on getting under that bale, I thought there had to be a rat there. Time is a luxury one doesn't have in Barn Hunt, as he had to find four rats in three and a half minutes, as well as go through a tunnel. So I called Rat on what I thought was RAT3 as soon as I was convinced he found one so we could keep looking for the last one, RAT4.
We were in two trials and I blew the first one by calling "Rat!" too quickly. AJ was trying to get under a leaner hay bale - he wasn't indicating a rat, but he was so intent on getting under that bale, I thought there had to be a rat there. Time is a luxury one doesn't have in Barn Hunt, as he had to find four rats in three and a half minutes, as well as go through a tunnel. So I called Rat on what I thought was RAT3 as soon as I was convinced he found one so we could keep looking for the last one, RAT4.
Is that how barn hunting goes? The owner has to call out when one is found?
obbanner
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Yes, the handler calls RAT and the judge will call out the rat number found or say it's not a rat. There's additional rules. The handler can't touch a hay bale before calling RAT. The handler must call RAT if the dog is worrying the tube or causing the tube to move in a manner that could injure the rat inside the tube.
There's dummy tubes and if the handler calls RAT on a dummy, or as in my case above, nothing, it's an immediate end of the run with an NQ.
There's three ways to handle the rat found - the handler can hold the dog while the rat wrangler removes the tube, the handler can pick up the tube and give it to the rat wrangler or the tube can be left it place.
Here's a link to the page with the Barn Hunt rule books, if you're interested. Barn Hunt Association
jazzies mum
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AJ looks proud of himself there! Well done. Bet he had a lot of fun and I didn't realise real rats were used. I can just imagine the shaking that tube could get with some of the terrier breeds! Is there ever trouble getting a dog to give up their rat?
"I wasn't grazing, I'm a dog!"
LifeofRubie
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Over the football season.
LifeofRubie
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ALSO Moo will sometime steal my seat when running errands...
obbanner
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There's rules that disqualify the dog if they do things that will injure the rat. If they don't release the tube when taken, if they worry the tube, even if they spend too much time on the tube without the handler calling RAT, they'll DQ. It's up to the handler to get their dog off the tube. They can either hand the tube to the rat wrangler or hold the dog at least 18 inches away from the tube so the rat wrangler can pick it up.
One of the best ways to learn a sport is to get in the ring as a steward or scribe, or in this case, rat wrangler. As a rat wrangler, if a dog stays interested in a tube after I take it, I carry it high out of the ring both to keep the dog away from it and to give the handler a chance to get the dog working again.
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