Diary of competitions, training, etc.

Dantero's Red River Rapids:

FRIII - Chaos passed the second leg of her FRIII to complete the title with a score of 324 and some change. Her jumps were some of the best she's done (50/60 possible points) and the obedience was almost perfect, but she had some problems in the bitework with scoops by the decoys (it's hard when you are little and get tunnel vision on the legs) which resulted in some large points lost. Judge Richard Bonilla SCABR Riverside, CA - 2009-03-28

FRIII - Chaos earned the first let of her FRIII under judge Philippe Touy in Riverside CA, trial hosted by SCABR - 2009-02-01

RN - Chaos earned her RN in 3 straight trials with a perfect 100 in the second trial (2nd place based on time) and a 97 and first place win in the 3rd trial. - 2008-10-18

RN - Perfect Score - Chaos earned her second RN leg, with a perfect 100 point score. Venue - Mission Cicuit, Pomona CA Judge: Mr. C. Z. Pat Alvarez - 2008-05-25

Chaos trialed in her first Rally trial and earned her first RN leg with 86/100. Actually Chaos earned 96/100, but Kadi only earned 86 (bad handler). Venue - Mission Cicuit, Pomona CA Judge: Mrs. Michele R. Illes - 2008-05-24

Chaos trialed again at FRIII and improved her score by almost 40 points, but missed passing by just 4.7 points with a 314.3/400. Although she'd been jumping and doing the send away perfect in training, in the trial once again she didn't do the long jump or the send away. She nickeled and dimed points away in the rest of the jumps and obedience, and also some in the bitework. She did however keep her basket. Judge was Richard Bonilla, Decoys Thuan Ha and Byran Cristan. - 2008-02-27

Chaos trialed for the first time in FRIII at the BARC trial. Unfortunately her lack of experience showed in MANY areas and she earned a 276.1 She lost the return on both the palisade and hurdle because she was to close, and just didn't do the long jump. On the send away she went about 10 feet and returned to me, the next exercises was the unseen retrieve, and instead of the retrieve she did a perfect send away. The protection work was very good, except she lost her basket on the guard of object. Judge was Roger Goron. - 2007-10-20

FRII - It wasn't pretty, Chaos only had a couple of weeks work after having her pups, and 100+ degree weather in Utah didn't help, but Chaos passed the second leg of her FRII title with a 241.5 She lost a LOT of points in the jumps, but more than made up for it in her protection with a 30/30 Face, Defense and Gun Attack and 28/30 Flee. She wasn't quite as good in her escort for the blind search LOL - 2007-06-23

HCT-s - Chaos earned both legs of her HCT-s with style, and many comments from the judges about how talented she is. - 2007-06-03

Chaos trialed for the second leg of FRII, but didn't pass. On the very first jump, she decided to investigate then lick a piece of corn on the cob lying by the landing zone (-20). Then she realized she'd done wrong and came around the jump to me (refusal on return, -8). After that, she started to stress the food on the ground and zero'd a retrieve (-8) because their was food near where I was standing. Finally obedience was over and we moved on to protection, where she had WAY to much fun, pretending she couldn't hear my 'out' commands. Final score 213.6/300. Guess we have more training to do before we can move on to FRIII. - 2007-03-03

CGC - Chaos passed her CGC at a CGC/WPTCA BST in Long Beach CA - 2006-11-25

FRII - Chaos earned the first leg of her FRII at the 2006 NARA Championships. She had a few problems in obedience and jumps (she's never done THAT before) but pulled it together in protection for 30/30 - face, 30/30 - defense, 30/30 flee, 29/30 attack with gun, 27/40 search and escort (got a little dirty here) for a total of 250.8 and a 4th place finish. 3rd place was 251.4. Thanks go to Mark Saccoccio for all the work he put into getting Chaos ready for this trial. - 2006-10-08

FRI - Chaos finished her FRI with a second place finish under judge Rick Maples. She trialed for her FRII, but did not find the decoy on the blind search (-40) so was unable to earn a passing score. - 2006-07-01

FRI - Chaos earned the first leg of her FRI on April 29, 2006 under judge Roger Goron, with a score of 184, taking High in Trial FRI in a field of 11 entries. She missed two positions (took them on the second command) for -6, lost 2 points in her palisade (took two commands for the return jump) and one point in the retrieve (chewing). The rest of the points were lost in bitework (slow to out and some distance in an escape). - 2006-04-29

FR Brevet - FR Brevet on March 19, 2005 in Banning, CA with a 3rd place finish. She missed 2nd place by 0.5 pts. Judge was Roger Goron from France. - 2005-03-19

3rd Place in the Gold Coast K9 Working Dog Competition held in Ventura CA, Jan 30, 2005, handled by Brenda Aaro. Chaos tied for second in the beginner division, but the tie breaker was decided by which team had the high obedience score, giving her a third place finish out of 13 dogs. This was her first time on an actual trial field. - 2005-01-30