Eyes Clear: 3/2013

HSF4: Normal/Normal

1st OTDc leg

HIT Aussie 7/13 with a 109 for her first ATDs leg

Quil comes to us from Marie Murphy of Diamond Aire kennel and is already making her presence known! This little blue bi spitfire seems to possess her mothers exuberant outlook on life.  As a small puppy she was  fearless and would follow us anywhere and everywhere...not even blinking at new situations. She loves to play fetch and tug and will bring things back every time. Quil is also catching on quickly to clicker training and seems to be smart as a whip. Our goal is to help her become a thinking dog....one that doesn't rely on the handler for every command but instead is always trying to anticipate the next step and problem solve on their own. So far this is working out excellent and she learned a full dumbell retrieve by 7 months old quite by accident while staying with Heather at college for 2 weeks for socialization.  She found Smoke's dumbell and brought it to Heather who was in the kitchen doing dishes.  Heather praised her then put it back on the crate it came from, meanwhile grabbing the clicker/treats and walking back into the other room.  A few minutes later Quil came prancing back into the kitchen with it.  Click. Treat. and thats all it took to get her to realize we really like it when she brings us that "toy".  A few minutes tossing it (even into other rooms where it was basically a blind retrieve) and Quil had everything but a front/finish.  SMART;-)  Once real training started she earned her CD easily with a HIT/HITA and the weekend she finished her CD we decided to see how easy it would be to have her ready for open.  Well she did everything so learned it through osmosis by watching Smoke practice.  She will be trialing for her CDX with just a little polishing.  Hopefully leading to her VCH soon.

Quil isn't afraid to get into the middle of things on stock and has been a blast to work so far.  Heads and heels and is just EASY.  She earned her stock titles thus far with only getting to work a few times during the trial season and not practicing ducks at all with numerous 100+ scores. Quil finished her WTCh in two summers of trialing (with Heather in Vet school) and extremely limited access to stock between trials (esp cattle/ducks). She is relentless in chasing/heeling the boys to the point where Smoke now runs full bore and if he has to stop he immediately sits so she just bounces off of him instead of grabbing his hocks.  They always come in with slobbery heels.