GRAND PRIX NATIONAL CHAMPION!!!!!!

My sister Janelle took her Corgi, Eve, to Arizona this week. Janelle and Eve participate in Dog Agility. This is definitely not the Westminster Dog Show. This is serious athletic dog stuff, and it requires a "handler" or, in Janelle's case, Dog Mommy who knows her stuff. Guess they meet the criteria.....

Eve ran the 12" Grand Prix Final perfectly clean (no faults like bars down on jumps or wrong turns), and extremely FAST! Janelle said it was the run of Eve's life. AWESOME! Two other dogs were slightly faster (like within a second), but had faults. HAH! EVE IS THE NATIONAL CHAMPION!!!!

Check out the commentary from the USDAA website itself.... (for more, click on the title of this post)

"12052 Eve, Pembroke Welsh Corgi, Janelle Julyan -
smooth and fast, those little legs are FLYING! 34.73 NEW LEADER"

I'm not an expert, but the article includes a course diagram and I think she had 20 "obstacles" including a tunnel, weave poles, teeter totter, A frame, and jumps... which they had to do in the correct order, as fast and cleanly as possible. (-:

I'm so proud of them! Go Janelle and Eve!

What's Dog Agility? To see a run down, including pictures of a course: look up Dog Agility in Wikipedia-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_agility

What's a CORGI? Here are some older pictures of Janelle and her dogs. Eve is lighter colored, Zippy has some black coloring. Sometimes when Eve is away for a trial, we get to keep Zippy. He's an awesome dog.





Hooray! My sister and niece are famous!