Blue Past You Flyball Team

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Hope everyone has a pleasant Memorial Day Weekend. Hope you are able to get put and enjoy the weather. Hopefully you have plans with your pups.

If you do have plans, tell us about it!

Happy 8th birthday to one of the OG members on the team. Hookfang!!

Keeping our friend Sue in our thoughts and prayers.
Flare was so loved.
We are so sad to learn of her passing.

We are all home from great tournament weekend.
We were a bare bones team. As last minute we lost Sharon and Suitcase to illness.

So it was me (Tatum, Izzy and Laura).
We recruited Kate Corum and Vintage to be our fourth! Vintage is now a Blue Past You dog for a time so we didn't have to run pick up. Thank you Kate, Rude Dogs and CDS for allowing the team switch.

Team dogs were Brock, Kaos, Vintage, and Kit.
Back up was Hookfang. Thank goodness I didn't need to bring him out. I seriously can't race my two boys together. Both are start dogs. So running them both would be extremely difficult.

Hookfang did run singles.

Brock and I were on fire this weekend with starts. Once we found our sweet spot, we were basically unstoppable. Brock is my favorite to run because he doesn't get emotional on me like Hookfang does. Brock just wants to run and do his job for me. I would like to work on him in a passing position of time and place allows it.

Kaos I think loved her boys team. She ran great all weekend. Pretty sure she made no mistakes. Love that tiny dog. She keeps up with her boys. 😍

Kitty did great! He does better as the anchor dog. He likes to close the gap, but is starting to pirate ship when behind. So we will add that to the list to try to work on when we can. He did great. I think he was happy he was running for his momma though. As usually he gets a different handler. So it was even better to see him as a team with his mom.

Vintage did great! Even when one of the kiddos ran him. He did better in third. He had a few bobbles, but he certainly saved our team for the weekend.

Hookfang in singles was kind of eh. He still gave me a decent time on the second round.
First round I couldn't find a spot on the mat and was early. Then when I had a decent start, Hookfang stopped before the box and came back. He said no. He wasn't racing anyone. His joy just wasn't there. Hes a dog that is emotional. I can usually feel that joy on the lanes. It just wasn't there. I never re run singles. So we had four No Finishes.
Second round out was a bit better. He still wasn't racing anyone, but we managed to clock times. So we got a 3.6 at least.
It would have been nice to have decent competition. But I hope he was able to help the racers we ran against. As singles is great for green dogs.

We had a lot of fun together. I can't wait for the next one and for next practice.
I love racing these dogs.

Karen and GG came to hang out. They did well just chilling around with us.

I wish we got more video, but alas that didn't happen.

I also helped Hair Of The Dog Flyball Club too. As they were also bare bones. I got to run and box load. They had a great consistent team put together.

Now we are just ready to keep working on things and be ready for the next tournament.
It was so much fun being with the team this weekend. Can't wait to do it again soon.

Keeping Rachael Brinkman and family in our thoughts and prayers.
The loss of OMG feels so major in the dog world.
OMG has left a brilliant legacy into her offspring and grandchildren and great grandchildren. OMG was special and produced some of the best dogs in a variety of sports.

I am so sad. I am going to hug her cloned son very tightly tonight. I feel so blessed to be able to continue to honor her through Hookfang and Karen.

We are very sorry for the loss of such a special girl.

Congratulations to Sharon on bringing on our new height dog.
Welcome Duffle Bag to the team!

Isn't he adorable!!!!????

I took like no photos again this weekend. Here is all I have.
But this past weekend two meet members met up with our friends on BOI to race our dogs.

The original plan was just dock dive and enjoy a chill weekend.

Sure enough our plans changed close to the closing date. We ended up teaming with BIO and Rude Dogs to get a team together.

Our team dogs Suitcase and Brockcollie were great all weekend.
Suitcase our green boy learned a LOT. He and his mom Sharon starting getting some amazing passes. We still kept him upclose at 25 feet, as the being in the team still makes Suit a little confused. So we thought for best success, we won't change things on him.
He was running so well, and passing well.

Brockcollie and I struggled on the lights on Saturday 😵‍💫. That was a trip. Sunday I improved. Brockcollie was running a lot of 3.9's and 4.0's which is great from a long winter off.

We can't thank Nan Chernik Anna Parus Ron Tammie George Connie Skalski and Rachel Olson enough for dogs.
It was a fun.

We are ready for the next event back in the area in a couple weeks.

Happy St. Patrick's Day friends!!
Here is Hookfang showing off his best cheesy smile he can! 😂

Is it March 8th yet? We want to go to flyball practice and see our friends!!!

It is national Whippet Day!!
We have a lot of them.
Share yours in the comments with us!!!! 😊