10/22/2026
JC Digr and Kent had some fantastic work on the field this week at USBCHA National Finals, scoring high enough on the combined first two rounds to qualify them for the Double Lift Open Final Go-Round. However, the USBCHA has a rule that a handler can only bring two dogs back to the Finals. Since all three of Kent’s dogs made it back to the Top Twenty, Digr was dropped from the final go round as his combined score was the lowest of all of Kent’s dogs.
We remember when Sara-Jo contacted us from the 2022 NCA National Finals in Texas. She was so excited after watching this red dog named Digr work cattle. She was really interested in buying him, but she wanted Kent to watch him work to see if he thought the dog was a good match for her. So there we were, on a cross-country flight from Boston to Seattle, watching him run at the Finals on the livestream on Kent’s phone. The conclusion? Kent told Sara-Jo he would help her if she bought Digr, though we were fairly suspicious the check had already been written.
Digr is a powerful and talented cattle dog that needed a strong handler at the wheel. Sara-Jo needed to step up her handling game if she was going to be successful with him, and step it up she did! She worked hard, and had a lot of success with Digr in trials across the US and Canada. She qualified and ran him in MSSA, USBCHA, NCA and the Canadian National Cattle Finals.
The backstory is, we picked Digr and five other dogs up from Sara-Jo two months ago, after she was diagnosed with inoperable cancer and had asked us to take her dogs in and care for them. We made the 3,100 mile round trip up to pick them up when she let us know she was ready for them to go. 💔Thankfully, the dogs knew us as we had been going up to Washington to work with Sara-Jo five times a year for the last several years. However, August and even September are not favorable months to work dogs in Oklahoma with temps exceeding 100 pretty much every day. These dogs settled in to their new lives with us amazingly, and made the transition to working with Kent pretty seamlessly, just in time for the Finals. Proof that when God makes a plan, it always works. We just have to be willing to give him the reins.
We were honored to show Digr this year at USBCHA Finals for Sara-Jo, as part of our promise to her. We told her we would not only take care of them, we would also continue their trialling careers for her.
This year is for you, Sara-Jo. You are remembered, and we celebrate you.
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