News and Updates
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January 12
Thunder going to Spain this summer! Click the picture below :) Also,
new pictures of his brother, Ten!
What a great weekend! Word from Katy was that Remedy completed her AX AXJ and got her first QQ.... she's not even 18 months yet! In Charleston, Cecilia Flo earned 2 legs for her RN obedience title as well as a placement among tough competition. Got to show Bodhi for Karen for the first time and he did surprisingly well considering he is not used to all the grooming, drying, girls in season, craziness, etc of a dog show. Georgia showed for fun in a puppy match and did very well too, wish we could've stayed for groups but the match was dragging out WAY too long and we were all ready to go to dinner! Also got to see Greta and Tirade's puppy, Ferrari who is now 6 months old - so handsome!
New 12-week pictures of Georgia!
More great news, Ten also has OFA Good hips and Normal
Elbows!
Great weekend in Brooksville FL visiting with Lara, Dan and Ten.
Not so good weekend for Savannah and I in agility!
Is this my omen for a name for Georgia??? http://savannahnow.com/news/2012-01-11/girl-scouts-add-savannah-smiles-cookie-lineup She does have that "Savannah smile" when she gets excited, and this name was already on my short list..... and since the Girl Scouts were founded in Savannah....this might just have to be the name........ Although last weekend, Don & Ginsey St. Croix gave me the suggestion of Holther's "Mouth of the South" when Georgia kept barking at their dog, Party. And I must admit I LOVE that name too! And right now I am leaning towards that name. Decisions, decisions......!?
Great news, I called OFA today (yes, impatience!) and both Thunder and Flo have OFA Good hips and normal elbows!
VAMP earns her FDCh-G title! (25,000 pts) and had a 0.001 start time (which is nearly a perfect start!) Check out her page of titles, HERE!
New (and very cool!) pictures of Brandy here and Thunder's champion picture here
Well, my computer fried around Christmas and now I have a new one with Windows 7 now which is NOT friendly with my really old web building software (Frontpage
2000). So the site is going to be a little "buggy" and different
until I can completely re-do a new one, I'm afraid. Anyway! Last two
weekends have been great! Irish and Mark got to
perform at the NFL Atlanta Falcons halftime show! Katy and Remedy
got Rem's OA OAJ with first placements as well as all blue ribbons in her
Excellent A courses she Q'd in, in Harriman TN. Savannah and I had fun
there as well and got some Q's and points. Only need 73 more for her MACH!
:) Laurie and Halle got their CGC out in CA.
Also, Paula and Ela got a first place in Nov Std and a
second place in Nov Fast.
December 11
New 8-week old puppy photos! New Leverage pictures!
Savannah's puppy - Click here for her Christmas photos!
Alice gets her RA title!
New 7 week photos of Savannah's baby. Unfortunately, the quality isn't great, I'm still trying to learn this new Canon...and I am missing my Nikon more and more :( Can't seem to get the lighting, focus, etc right at all!
12/16 Finally back home last night and staying home - for almost 2 weeks - ...YAY!
Hopefully I can catch up on email, pictures, videos, etc soon :)
Savannah and Will were both
invited to compete at the AKC/Eukanuba Nat'l Championship this weekend but I
didn't enter them. I had to shave part of Will's foot a month ago and
Savannah's coat is pouring out by the handfuls, as I knew it would be due to her
pregnancy. Maybe next year :)
New picture of
Ferrari - too cute!
Thunder finishes his show Championship in style with another 3-point major in Winston-Salem, NC. And here is the update from Ela's owner, Paula, from her first CPE trial (congrats!) : "She qualified in level 1 for Wildcard with a 1st place, FullHouse with a 2nd place, Snooker with a 1st place, Jackpot with a 1st place and level 2 Jackpot with a 2nd place. She earned a Strategy Games Title - CL1-S."
I had fun running Greta in agility this weekend down in FL, and she now has her NA! Thanks again to Tinna Brown and Katy Chadwick for getting her started in agility, what a great job you gals did :) Up in TN, Katy and Remedy had an incredible weekend with ALL first placements in all of her agility runs that she Q'd in (5 runs).
New Savannah's baby photos at 35 days old!
November 11
Congrats Katy and Remedy on her NA NAJ titles in
agility (with all first placements!)! Also, 2 Novice standard legs
on Greta, with second place. And Lloyd and
Tango had some nice runs/placements as well!
New Savannah's baby photos at 3.5 weeks old!
Another great weekend! Went to Concord, NC for agility and conformation. 4 more points on Thunder, 3 more to go. Lloyd with Tango had some nice placements in agility. Saw Mercer's daughter Eva compete for the first time (whoa she is fast!) and she won some classes as well. Down in FL, Lynn and Cirque has some really nice runs/placements in agility as well.
Wow, home from the HBC 2nd Reunion. It was a BLAST (and went way too
fast). Thank you to everyone who helped out and made it happen.
Heather and I both are very appreciative of everything, especially all that the
Muir's and the West's did. I'm surprised that my little porkchop puppy
made it back home ;) Thank you to all of those who came and were such
great sports about all the games, and thank you for loving these HBCs so much :)
Hopefully I will be able to make a page with photos and videos from it in the
near future.
Also, at the agility trial in Marietta, thank you to Katy and Tinna for running
Greta who now has her NAJ (with a blue ribbon!)
And Remy with Katy got some novice legs at her debut!
(and blue ribbons). Lloyd and Tango won firsts in
T2B and in JWW on Friday! Tinna and Tirade, Alisa and
Brandy, Beth and Miranda, Joe and
Guinness, Paula and Ela, myself
and Will, all had fun and success at agility.
Down in FL, Lynn and Cirque had a great weekend as well
in the ribbons!
And Sandy with Finn got his BN title up north!
Congrats to Cecilia and Flo, who earned her HSAs with a third place!
October 11
Greta's first AKC agility trial weekend!
her first 2 runs, 2 Q's, one second place. Thank you Katy Chadwick for training her
the past 2 weeks and handling her and also to Tinna Brown for getting her
started :) See video:
http://youtu.be/f-2jKH_lZFs
Donna and Demi got another QQ!
Lloyd and Tango had a great weekend with some fast times
and nice placements. A First in T2B and a Second in JWW. I spent
most of the weekend at home with the new baby except to go judge at the Savannah
Kennel Club's conformation match. Busy November now to follow!
NEW PICTURE of Guinness!
10/27/11 - Savannah has her baby girl by c-section!
Congrats to IRISH and Mark for their nice third place finish in T&F at the USDDN Worlds! Congrats to Laurie and Halle for getting Halle's RN title!
SIGN UP! MARK MUIR DISC DOG SEMINAR!
New pictures of Spring! New video of
Ferrari! New pictures of
Lil Bit!
Big congrats to Cecilia and Flo, for picking up several
qualifying legs in herding! Flo is only 21 months old and has legs now on
A and B course on both sheep and ducks. Several placements, to include a
second and a couple of thirds.
September 11
CONGRATS Beth and Joe with Guinness who is now a new Champion! G-man finished his title going BOB and then another BOB the following day as a special! Also, congrats to Alisa and Brandy, for finishing Brandy's MX! And Donna and Demi got yet another 2 double-q's this weekend in agility! And Will won second place in a competitive open fast class the one time he showed this past weekend. Also! A new video of Biddy with mama Alice!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r65jVq_yMbM <-- New video from Cirque's owner, Lynn!
Mark Muir and IRISH had an awesome weekend at the
Skyhoundz World Championships! On Friday, Irish
qualified for the World Finals in the "last chance qualifier" by coming in
second place among many of the best in the world vying for the few remaining
spots to compete.
Congrats Laurie and Halle! Second place in their first Rally Obedience trial and another leg and placement on Sunday. Congrats to Alisa and Brandy on another QQ in agility! Also! New pictures of Flo here. And new picture of Ela!
HAPPY THIRD BIRTHDAY to the 2nd Stella x Cap litter!
Congrats to all the new puppy owners! Updates to follow soon! I
had a great (but very busy) time this past weekend in Alpharetta, GA.
Savannah wasn't feeling well so we NQ'd a couple of times and that was it for
us, we pulled and didn't run anymore. But plenty more to do with Tirade
and Tinna visiting, a surprise visit from Stacey Muir with Thunder and
Irish, as
well as spending time with friends and the new puppy owners. A visit to
the Canine Ranch with all the pups to visit Remedy and another surprise visit by
Sally and her family! I just LOVE my extended family :) Thank
you everyone!
ALSO: Donna and Demi had a GREAT weekend going 5
for 6, 2 more QQ's, that's 10 now for her! And Lloyd with
Tango had some incredible runs with placements.
Congrats Alisa and Brandy, for qualifying for Skyhoundz World Finals in bullseye competition!
NEW! 7-week old puppy pictures! New pictures of Ten!
August 11
Guinness wins BOTH of his majors in conformation out in CA as
well as some other points -
CONGRATS Beth and Joe, 13 total, only 2 to go!!!
Click picture to enlarge Guinness
RemyD gets FIRST place with a score of 100 in Rally obedience in Atlanta and then another score of 97 to complete her RN title! And GREAT new photos of Bodhi!
New 5 week old puppy video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqfPv518avA
New PUPPY VIDEO here! And a new video of Remedy!
Great weekend! I snuck away for a few days and Savannah got to play in agility (it's been a month since the last trial!). Lynn with Cirque was there as well and had some nice runs with with very nice placements in a very competitive class. Also, Thunder performed in his first Atlanta Falcons event, at the season opener against the Miami Dolphins. And Vamp earned her TDI so she will now be making therapy visits with owner Becky!
New 4-week puppy pictures here! They were way too sleepy when I took these!
CONGRATS Beth and Joe on their agility trial with Miranda and Guinness. G got a first in jww and Beth had SO much fun at her first trial! Also! Happy birthday to Savannah's second litter - they turned a year old (many new pictures on their individual pages)! Also, Will and Savannah received their invitations to the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship.
New 3-week puppy pictures here!
July 11
New video of Itty Bitty puppy here:
New video of Remedy, lots of new photos of Will and new picture of Ela! and TWO WEEK old puppy pictures! Also new pictures of Biddy !
Guinness gets another point in conformation - congrats Beth and Joe!
Congrats to baby dog Remedy (and Katy and Gabby) for her first Rally Novice leg! Also, big congrats to Becky and Vamp - what a huge weekend they had with 10 out of 12 Q's, new titles and more to include her ARCHX in APDT Rally! (New photos on her page)
Well, I went to Perry and got a few agility Q's with Savannah, but on Friday I got the call that Greta's temperature dropped, meaning, labor to come soon! So we are happy to announce the birth of 4 girls and 2 boys early Saturday morning 7/16/11! Greta's litter can be seen HERE. One of the girls is super tiny, I guess she could be considered a "runt". She was 4 oz at birth and actually weights 3.8oz right now (they lose a little weight the first day usually). This is extremely small (her littermates are 13-15+oz), so we are praying that she will put on some weight and start growing...
Congrats to Becky and Vamp!! Vamp earns her flyball dog champion title (FDCh) as well as her FDCh-S!
Back from my trip to California to judge Border Collie puppies for the BCCGLA's Specialty show. I had a great time out there, it was way too short of a visit!
Congrats to Cecilia and Flo!! Flo got her first HSBs leg!
June 11
New video of Remedy here!
Orlando, FL report! On Saturday, Thunder
wins a 4-point major going WD and BOW! His littermate
Flo only showed one day on Sunday, from the Bred By Exhibitor class (which
was her second time ever in the show ring) and went WB/BOW for a 4 point major!
Sorry for the info-delay, y'all, but I virtually had NO internet all weekend due
to phone issues and hotel wifi issues :( Will catch up soon :) I
also just read that we have an official flyball dog among us - Big Congrats to
Becky and Vamp who earned FD and FDX titles this weekend!
(I think those are titles #26 and #27 for them?! Wow!)
Back from agility in Birmingham - Savannah is now qualified for the 2012 AKC Agility Nationals!!! We won't be going but this was a personal goal I had before her next cycle, so I am thrilled. She also got QQ #20, so all those required QQ's are out of the way! Now we just need approx 200 more points for her MACH! :)
Up north, Brandy and Alisa had a great trial too and got her first QQ on the way to her MACH! :)
Greta is pregnant! :)
Congrats Lara and Ten! Ten won Best of Breed at the Bay Colony's Border Collie Club's supported entry show! Mercer and Cecilia had a great agility weekend at USDAA SE Regionals in Perry! New pictures on the following pages: Bodhi, Jace, Flo, Mercer, Ten, Thunder, Greta and Savannah's agility page.
May 11
Ela earned her Rally Novice title - congrats Paula!!! Savannah and Tango had some really nice JWW runs in NC.
New pictures of Irish, Thunder, Remedy, Biddy, Halle and The Greta!!!
Savannah QQ #19 on Sunday in SC, and Will won 1st in Open Fast :) Tango had a nice third place in JWW on Sunday. Mark & Stacey with Thunder and Irish had a GREAT disc weekend in NC, too much to list, so visit their website for the details (not sure if it is updated yet) www.georgiairishdiscdogs.com
Brandy and Alisa qualify for the 2011 USDDN World Finals! Also, Katy takes Remedy to her first show (Star 94's Woofstock in Atlanta) where she shows off puppy disc, lure coursing, baby agility and more - she did GREAT!
Bodhi's first TV commercial! http://www.havertys.com/View_CurrentAd Bodhi is the 9th Holther Border Collie to be in TV or major film or other advertising.
Great way to start May! Savannah gets QQ #18. Cecilia and Flo earn their PT title! Lynn and Cirque earn their AXJ! And Becky and Vamp earn three obedience titles - CD, BN and GN - which makes that 25 total titles that Vamp has earned!
April 11
Some updates to the following pages! Thunder, Remedy, Jace, Bodhi, Ela, and Guinness
QQ #17 for Savannah! Came home early and stopped by in Augusta to see the Muirs, and got to see Thunder win his first World Championship qualifier! Congrats! NEWSFLASH! On Sunday, Mark and Thunder WIN the long distance division with a 207' throw and gets another Q to the World Finals for this event, too! And, Stacey and Irish WIN in the women's division and earn the chance to compete at World Finals as well! Qualifying spots were only awarded to first place division winners. CONGRATS!
Great (and long) 5-day weekend in Perry, GA! Wish the entire Holther family could've been there, but it was great to have so many there. Alisa and Brandy came from NJ, Lynn and Cirque came from the FL Keys, plus the usual - more local - suspects (Donna with Demi, Lloyd with Tango, Katy with Remy and Karen with Bodhi) were there too! Brandy earned her AXJ as well as her herding instinct certificate and Demi now has her MX! Cirque and Tango had some incredibly FAST runs, and I was so happy to get to visit with puppies, Remy and Bodhi (Bodhi earned his HIC, too!). Also our buddy Mark came and ran his dog Gipper and won a first in Novice! Lastly, Savannah and I were able to get QQ #16.
At a disc tournament in FL, Irish wins Novice D&A with Stacey Muir! Out in CA, Guinness and Joe get another Q in Novice! Up north, Lara and Ten win points towards Ten's Grand Championship! Also, Greta wins second place in her very first agility run with Tinna! And Savannah gets a couple more Q's at our trial in SC.
New video of Alice's puppy, Biddy, at 4 weeks old! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjCDP0M6xh4
Great weekend in NC! Savannah got two more QQ's (that's 15 now!). Also, Thunder won his first 4 points in conformation this weekend. Tango had a JWW 1st place win that was the fastest run of all height classes one day as well. And Brandy had some nice agility runs up north, one with a second place!
March 11
Up north, Brandy and Alisa get two more MX legs
with nice times. Cirque and Lynn win 1st in JWW
down in FL. Ela gets her second Rally Novice leg! And
"Georgia" has a new home and will have a new name, "Remy"
(we think!? name discussions still underway!) .
She will be with Katy in Atlanta, where she will be getting to do all sorts of
training with Katy at the Canine Ranch. I look forward to seeing great
things in the future from these two!
3/18 weekend:
Had a great weekend with friends at the Canine Capers Agility trial and also
at the Dixie Disc Dog Championships this past weekend. Got to see Demi,
Tango, Mercer, Flo, Georgia, Irish, Thunder, Vamp and Bodhi!
Tango won 3rd in Exc B STD on Sunday,
Demi won 1st in
Open Fast and a second in Exc B JWW on Friday. Mercer
had a nice Open Fast Q and had a wonderful debut in Freestyle disc dogging and a
nice T&F score! Irish and
Thunder did really well in the disc competition, I don't have their exact
results yet. Puppies Bodhi and
Remy played T&F too for rollers and small tosses.
And Vamp made her debut in T&F and finished in the top
10!
I played with Will and Idgie in
disc and Savannah in agility and I got to enjoy all
the other Holther dogs I was surrounded with this weekend!
ALSO! Alisa and Brandy were up north competing in
discs where she finished first in Div A in Freestyle, Distance and Accuracy and
Bullseye. She finished 6th overall in the PA State Championships!
And Beth and Joe were out in California playing agility with
Guinness. ALSO! Ela
got her first Rally Novice leg, at the ripe age of 7 months! Congrats!!!
What a busy spring season we all have with our dogs!
Savannah gets QQ #13! Also, puppy update here! And a new video of Brandy! New photos of Bodhi!
Alice has her baby girl!
Flo gets her CGC at the Hilton Head Island dog show.
February 11
Savannah goes 6 for 6 and gets 3 QQ's, all with placements, this past weekend in Tallahassee, FL! Thunder pup goes into the breed ring on Saturday and wins the BBE class. Still not quite ring-savvy, but he will learn :)
Cirque and Lynn get Cirque's AX title with a First place!
Some news I forgot to put up a few weeks ago: Cirque won his Exc A Std class in Palmetto and also earned his NF title in Vero! ALSO! Kerri and Echo went to an NADAC trial a few weeks ago as well and won a couple of firsts in std and a third in jww.
Great weekend at the Savannah, GA agility trials! Savannah won 2nd and 4th in two of her standard runs and a 4th in a jww run and earned QQ #9 this weekend. Tango and Lloyd had a great weekend with 2 more QQ's and several 1st, 2nd, 3rd placements ribbons. Our friends, the Muir family came to visit as well and Mark and Gipper won their first blue ribbon with a Q in Novice Standard! Had a great time as well visiting with Cecilia and her crew as well as Becky who brought Vamp to stay for a mini vacation.
Demi earns her MXJ and gets another QQ at an agility trial TN!
Fun (but long) agility weekend in Jacksonville, FL! One QQ, four
standard Q's and an MX title for Savannah!
New pictures of Brandy and Greta
and Ten :) Greta is spending
some time in agility training up in the northeast with
Tinna Brown. She was able to meet
up with her cousins Brandy and Ela
at an agility trial this weekend. Brandy won first place in her fast class
at that trial.
Also, new pictures of Ela and Bodhi and Jace
Alice is pregnant, but the ultrasound showed only one puppy. They are not always 100% accurate, but even if there are a couple of extra puppies hiding in there, they are spoken for. But I will know more in a few weeks. We will hopefully be breeding 3 girls later this year (Greta, Stella and Savannah).
Greta - OFA finals! Hips Good and Elbows Normal! New picture of Flo!
January 11
NEW! Cirque pictures! New
Ten pictures at 13 months old
Agility in Fletcher, NC - huge trial, great weekend!
Savannah QQ'd all 3 days!
Will earned his NF title. And Lloyd and
Tango earned Tango's MX and she also placed 3rd in two
runs (QQ) and 1st in a standard run among some really tough competition.
Ten is a new Champion!
Congrats Lara!!!
First day of the Brooksville FL circuit, Ten goes WD and BOW! Two more points to go! Congrats Lara & Ten!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Alice has been bred to Craig. We are very excited about this breeding and will know around the first of February if she is pregnant. New pictures of Annie!
December 10
More points for Ten! Won't be long now and he'll be a Champion!
Another JWW Q for Savannah. Elkton, FL trial site standard ring had a circus with elephant matter prior which made for lots of sniffing, distracted dogs :( Came home early. Also! Another point for Lara and Ten!
Also, OFA hips prelim GOOD for Greta. It is a "prelim" because she wasn't quite 2 yrs old on the day the x-ray was taken (which was done 2 weeks before her 2 yr old b-day). She was also in full season when they were done. We'll get finals for formality in early 2011.
November 10
Pendleton, SC agility: Tango earns her Excellent FAST title and her first QQ and also a third place in a very competitive Exc B jww class! Great job Lloyd and Tango! My Savannah earns her MXJ title with 2 more jww Q's and a 19-point MX leg #5. We had a great time at the trial! And up north in conformation, Mr. TEN wins another major! Congrats, Lara!
Finn gets his Rally Excellent title with 2 second places!
Working on a page from the Holther Reunion!: CLICK HERE
The first annual Holther Border Collie Reunion was a BLAST. I could
write and write about it, but suffice to say, I am truly blessed to have some of
the BEST people possible as puppy-owners. Love you guys! I will
start a page on the website soon dedicated to just the reunion with pictures,
videos, etc. We missed several people who couldn't come, but we
understand. Start planning for next year! (Click on picture below)
Alisa and Brandy get MACH points and their Open Fast title in Marietta, GA!
October 10
Halloween weekend - Savannah continues to amaze
me! She hasn't done much agility at ALL since she had her puppies and we went to
Jacksonville, FL for 3 days and she goes 5 for 6 runs and gets 2 more QQ's,
despite some terrible handling moves on my part!
Becky and Vamp had a great weekend as well! She got
her ASCA Rally Excellent title and then from regular Open Obedience class she
went HIT!!! That is Vamp's 14th HIT and 22nd title and she just turned 2
years old!
GREAT 2010 BCSA Nationals in St. Louis! Becky and Vamp
made their AKC obedience debut and WON both days in Novice A as well as Graduate
Novice! Also a second and a third place in Excellent and Advanced Rally!
Lara and Ten won 4th place in a large
competitive 9-12 puppy class at the National and FIRST in the same class the
next day! See their pages for pictures from Purina Farms!
**Also! News from the agility trial I
missed... Donna and Demi got 2 more double-Q's!
Congrats to Becky and Vamp on another great weekend - 11 all-star points in UKC obedience! Congrats to Mark and Rocket on being runner up at USDDN World Finals! Congrats to Alisa and Brandy who did very well in their first Disc World Finals!
The puppies are all in their new homes now.... "Georgia" (Girl #3) is staying here....pictures to come soon of all the pups in their new homes. Also, Lad has found his new forever-home. I will miss my Laddy-Boy terribly, but I know that he is being absolutely loved and spoiled - getting to go to school with his new mom who is a teacher, getting to tag along to horse shows, going on hikes geocaching and much more with his new family! We hear he loves the trampoline!
Alice's hips come back OFA Good and elbows normal!
Becky and Vamp have another great weekend with another HIT in obedience and more points towards her UROC title!
Irish! New sponsorship! :)
Wow, what a weekend! Brandy and Alisa get her agility AX and OAJ titles, Vamp and Becky go down to FL and win all the blue ribbons and multiple HIT's in UKC obedience and rally, and Tango and Lloyd earn her MXJ with a second place (and a First in Excellent Fast as well as some other legs). Also, Savannah got her feet wet after just having puppies with another MXJ leg. Even better news than all this dog stuff is that my buddy Mark Muir is doing much better and out of the hospital now :)
NEW 8 week old puppy pictures!
September 10
NEW 7 week old
puppy pictures!
Brandy qualifies for the USDDN World Finals!
CONGRATS! And Vamp earns 12 more Q's in APDT
Rally!
Irish's cover
Stella #2 litter turns two! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Also, NEW 5 week old puppy pictures!
Two QQ's for Demi this weekend! Tango now has 9 MXJ legs! Will got a 1st place in Nov FAST.
Big congrats to Melissa, Alice earns her RN title! New 4-week old puppy pictures! Also, 3 more MXJ legs for Tango and 1 second-place Exc B STD Q.
August 10
New 3-week old puppy pictures! Also...
Big congrats to Lara and Ten on an incredible first
show ever! Ten won best of Breed and a 5-point major at his very first dog
show up in West Springfield, MA. He also won Best in Match at the Nutmeg
BC Club's Border Collie match. Also, Becky and Vamp
get a 199 in UKC Novice Obedience - congrats!
Ten at his very first dog show, in the herding group!:
First place for Cirque in Exc A JWW 20" in
Greensboro! At another agility trial, some great runs and a Excellent Std
Q, Open JWW Q and a Nov Fast title for Brandy, too!
New pics of puppies at 10 days old! And some new pics of Echo, Alice, Vamp, Brandy, Annie.
Becky and Vamp earn Vamp's ARCH (APDT Rally Championship) Congrats!!!
Alisa and Brandy win second place in the Intermediate division Skyhoundz Disc CanAm Games. Congrats!!!
Guinness and Joe get a Q and Second place in their second agility trial ever! Congrats you two!!! New pics of puppies too :)
Alice is a Champion! Congrats Melissa and Bob! Also, 8/8/10, Savannah has her puppies - 2 gold (ee red) and white males and 3 black and white females! Also! Vamp wins two more ASCA HIT's and also an obedience title!
July 10
July 30th weekend in Greenville, SC - Will is a Champion! He won in style (again!) going Best of Breed from the Bred-by class over several Champions for a 4-point major (his 4th major). All of his points were from the BBE class which will earn him an invitation to Eukanuba! Also, Thunder got to show one day for practice and he did great for his first time, I'm so proud of both of these boys! And then, Becky and Vamp earned Vamp's 10th QQ for her RAE title - Big congrats! Pictures to come...
New RL3 title for Vamp!
Becky and Vamp had yet another great weekend in ASCA
obedience with HIT's!
9th weekend - Huge agility trial in Perry! I entered
Will just to see how he would do in a trial situation even though he really
isn't ready to trial...well, he went 6 for 6 runs earning his NA and NAJ titles
at his very first trial! He had (4) Second placements and (2) Third
placements in a competitive Novice B 20" class. I am SO proud of him!
Lynn and Cirque had super fast runs as well as Lloyd
and Tango. On Saturday, Tango
(video on her page)
got Third Place in Exc B Jww - another great placement! Donna and
Demi got another QQ towards her MACH. Mark and
Stacey with Irish and Thunder came to visit as well, and we had a great time.
VIDEOS of some of these runs to come soon! Some pictures of Will below and
a group shot! (L to R - Thunder, Irish, Will, Demi, Tango, Cirque)
4th weekend, enjoyed helping out the Muirs for the big disc show they put on
at Fort Benning for the troops. Irish and
Thunder were 2 of the 7 performers. Thunder and
Irish below in their red sequins!
June 10
New pictures of Alice ,
Thunder , Riley and Ten!
Congrats to Beth and Joe with Miranda and Lara with
Ten, both getting their CGC's at only 6 months old!
New pictures of Ten - just turned 6 months old.
Thank you Jess and Lara for the pictures! Page updates for
Brandy!
Congrats Alisa and Brandy on her OA and NAJ titles, as well
as a NF leg and many First placements! Also, Becky and Vamp are at it again
in AKC rally with MORE blue ribbons and 100's and now has 9 QQ's for
RAE...one more QQ to go! She was also the first dog ever to be awarded a
perfect 100 by judge Pat Pierce (and it was out of Exc B class)
Becky and Vamp had another wonderful weekend in tough UKC level 3 Rally! And another new title. Congrats!
Congrats to Alisa and Brandy on Brandy's NA title! Also to Becky and Vamp who won both of their classes this weekend in UKC rally.
May 10
Video of our weekend!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-KIucfQQHQ
Great weekend in Simpsonville, SC playing frisbee!
Brandy came all the way down and won the open division on Saturday!
Vamp got to come visit as well after a great day of Dock
Diving. Irish and Thunder
with the Muirs did great as usual! Will and
Idgie even got to play in the event! In other
news, Alice and Melissa finish off Alice's HSAs title -
Congrats you two! And Tango racks up more MACH
points as well. Videos and great pictures soon to come of the disc
competition.
Another great weekend! In Atlanta: A double Q for
Savannah in agility as well as for her litter sister
Demi, too! Alice wins
Best of Breed in SC and Will finally gets to swim in a
real pool with Auntie Irish!
Great weekend! Irish and Mark WIN the Expert
Sport Division (over 60+ teams) and qualifies for her second World
Championships (Skyhoundz this time) this year! Also, Becky and
Vamp had a GREAT Rally weekend earning 2 more double Q's
and 4 more perfect 100 scores and now has her 7th of 10 QQ's required for her
RAE title.
Tango gets her OF title with a first place! New pupdates!
New pictures of THUNDER at 18 weeks of age. We are so happy about Thunder's "surprise" jewel that arrived! Maybe this means the Muirs will let me show him in the future :)
New puppy video!
April 10
CONGRATS to Mark and IRISH on qualifying for the USDDN
World Disc Dog Finals! She came in 4th overall at the Disc Dog Southern
Nationals this weekend. Also Savannah and I got
another leg towards her MXJ! Also, Cirque's OFA
evaluations came back and he has Good hips and Normal elbows! Hopefully
there is a place in the breeding program for him in the near future! :)
Great weekend in Perry, GA!
Click image to the left - the three littermates having a visit - Irish, Cirque &
Tango
Cirque got his OAJ title with a First place and had
some gorgeous runs in Excellent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILoguSqidKU
Tango got her AX title
on Thurs and then won 3rd place on Saturday in Exc B Std
class, and 2nd place Exc B JWW on Sunday!
Here is her Sunday run:
www.youtube.com/user/ylloyd5#p/a/u/0/V43gDYX4NJs
Will and I got another major from the bred-by exhibitor
class at his third dog show - 3 majors and 11pts so far.
Other fantastic news:
Alice makes her herding debut in NC and gets 2 legs of her HSAs!
ALSO! New Stella puppy pictures at 5 weeks old
New Miranda pictures!
First places for Lynn and Cirque in Open JWW and Open STD in FL, and a new OA title! Second place for Savannah in a competitive Fast class in Columbia, SC
New puppy pictures! Congrats Cecilia and Mercer on another First Place in agility and another open jww leg! Also congrats to Alisa and Brandy on a First place in their very first agility run for a novice standard leg.
March 10
27th weekend was a Rally Obedience weekend! Vamp gets more QQ's towards her RAE title (she's halfway there now!) and Finn gets a pair of 99's towards his advanced title and blue ribbons as well!
New puppy pictures!
19th-21st - Awesome agility weekend in Atlanta! Savannah and I had one of our better weekends and she finished up her AX and AXJ titles (both with First placements)! Also, Mercer had a great weekend earning more Open Standard and JWW legs with multiple First placements and a Second! Demi finished her AXJ title with a second placement. And Tango had a great weekend, earning her AXJ and another Exc Std leg, all with First placements. NEW Tango video HERE. NEW Mercer video HERE.
March 12 - Stella has her pups! 6 girls - crazy! And one is a gold (ee red) and white. Unfortunately, the very last puppy she gave birth to didn't make it and will be waiting at the Rainbow Bridge with her uncle Beau Sr.
Agility news - Cirque gets an open jww leg with 3rd place in FL and Tango finishes her NF title and gets a 1st place in excellent jww and (2) 2nd place q's in Open Fast, in NC.
February 10
Tired after Tallahassee! (Agility and Conformation) Will went to his second dog show and did great! First day he won a four point major and Best of Breed over specials (and made a 6-dog cut in a tough herding group!). Second day he went WD/BOW for a 3 point major. I'm so proud of him. Last (only) time he showed in a real show was one day, nearly a year ago, where he won a point. Savannah was wild this weekend, but we did manage to get another leg in Excellent JWW with a First place!
New video of Puppy Girl #2 and Greta: http://www.youtube.com/user/holtherborders#p/a/u/0/ZlaYBqvLvl8
Congrats Becky and Vamp on a Rally Excellent title and 3 QQ's towards her RAE with 4 First Placements and one perfect score of 100! Also, agility weekend in Savannah, GA: Savannah gets a 1st in Excellent A Standard 20" on Sat, Mercer and Cecilia finish his NA and NF titles, and Tango and Lloyd finish her OAJ and gets a first place in Exc A Std 16".
New Greta pics @ 14 months
Lloyd and Tango had a great weekend in USDAA agility!
Tango won 4th place in the competitive 22" Grand Prix qualifier (at just a
hair under 18" tall, she normally
jumps 16" in AKC). She also got several Q's, titles and First placements
over the weekend. Way to go you two!
Picture HERE.
UPDATES! New puppy updates and a bunch of SNOW PICTURES - YAY!
Pictures of Ten, Savannah's first born pup, who is now in his new home with Lara!
Stella is pregnant by Epic! Also, Savannah back in the saddle for first time since pups, had a nice agility trial. No Q's, but she was HAPPY!
January 10
Will wins a nice Group 1 in a match and Alice gets another point. In agility, Lynn and Cirque get two Open Std legs!
New pictures/video of the puppies here :)
New video of Cirque! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj7rp1OT1CE
Vamp goes to an APDT rally trial for 2 days and comes
back with 8 first placements, 3 perfect scores and 2 new titles!
New Bella pictures! Also...Savannah pups - 3 week old pictures/video!
December 09
Savannah's puppies are born! (New 2 week old pictures and video added 12/28) and their sire, Epic, now has his HIBs title! Also a new video of Vamp's vacation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qalnM8drUX0
Vamp gets her Rally Advanced title with a First place!
Great start to December - Alice gets her PT herding title and Cirque gets his NAJ in lightening fast speed! Video HERE
November 09
Well well well... could this possibly be Ryder? :) http://valentinesdaymovie.com/
Way to go Alisa and Brandy! Brandy gets several first placements in a disc tournament this weekend! And Lloyd and Tango had a great weekend at their first USDAA agility trial with really fast times, multiple legs, firsts and second placements in jumpers and gamblers.
Congrats to Guinness! The G-Man goes Best of Winners for points at his very first dog shows out in CA!
13th weekend: Congrats to Becky and Vamp! Rally Novice obedience title in one weekend in Concord, NC with 3 very nice First placements with scores of 100, 99 and 100! Wish I could've made it to see you guys! Congrats Cirque for a FIRST in Nov B Jumpers!
Agility: CONGRATS Demi and Donna! She
gets her AX title and another AXJ leg with a first place!
Savannah gets Q's with first
placements towards her AX and AXJ on Nov 7th. Also,
Tango earns her OA title and another OAJ leg! And
Alice gets another two points in the show ring!
Halloween weekend full of agility! Savannah completes her OA and OAJ titles with 2nd and 3rd placements. Mercer makes his agility debut and gets his NAJ title as well as 2 legs of his NA title and a leg of his NF title - with several 1st placements - Congrats, Cecilia! And at another trial, Tango gets several 1st placements in Open Std and Open JWW - congrats, Lloyd!
October 09
Another agility weekend! Savannah gets First Place in her first Open jww run as well as another open jww leg in her second run and also an Open standard leg with a third place. Demi, her littermate, gets a First in Excellent Std! Also, Cirque, down in S. FL gets his NA title! Also - Brandy gets a second place in her freestyle disc dog routine!
Cirque's very first agility trial - a First
Place and a Third, in Nov B, with very fast times and now has a standard and a
jumpers leg . Wow! Congrats to Lynn and Cirque!
Irish wins an incredible 2nd place (and only was 1/2
point shy of first!) in Saturday's Pro Toss and Fetch at USDDN World Disc
Championships! Also, Clooney's daughter wins RWB at the BCSA 2009 National Specialty!
Kisha's half-sister, Devon, wins the BCSA specialty show
(again!) at the National - congrats Carolyn!
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend any of the events I wanted to on this
weekend, as Savannah's heat cycle is in full bloom!
Brandy, in her second disc competition ever, at a year old, wins first place in freestyle at a Skyhoundz local! Video on her page
Finn get his Rally Novice title!
September 09
Irish and Mark get 6th place out of 78 teams at the
Skyhoundz World Championship qualifier!
Savannah gets her NA and NAJ agility titles in Columbia, SC, with four First Placements!
Vamp goes HIGH IN TRIAL at a large UKC show and Alice gets WB in Atlanta for another 2 points! Not a bad weekend for these littermates who just turned a year old this week!
Alice gets a major win at the Atlanta dog show! Litter sister Vamp gets a second UKC Rally leg!
Tango completes her NA, NAJ titles in agility, at her second trial weekend, with 1st placements. Congrats, Lloyd! Savannah got another novice standard leg with a nice first place! She would've finished her novice titles, but she has the one-bar-curse right now! And Demi gets her OAJ title and another Excellent leg.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the Stella x Cap second litter. Your owners are awesome (well on that note, the first Stella-Cap litter owners are really awesome, too)! Special thanks to G's, Brandy's , Vamp and Alice's owners for making a beautiful book about the litter's first year. I have been really blessed with such excellent homes for my pups.
Alice gets three points during her very first dog show weekend! Congrats to owners Melissa and Bob!
A Dog Year movie trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgsTFgyyqvs
August 09
Alice gets her first UKC Rally leg with a 93!
Another title for Vamp, UKC Ultimate Air dock diving (UJJ) - congrats! Vamp also got a first place with 195 in UKC subnovice obedience and a 100 in UKC rally.
Great weekend! Congrats, Becky - Vamp gets her novice dock-diving title at BuckMasters! And congrats to Sandy and Finn, who got two Rally Obedience legs (one in the ribbons) this past weekend! And Alisa and Brandy placed 4th in their very first freestyle disc competition!
FINALLY!!! A Dog Year to come out
on HBO on September 3... Click:
http://www.hbo.com/apps/schedule/ScheduleServlet?ACTION_DETAIL=DETAIL&FOCUS_ID=623086
Congrats to Becky and Vamp, who earned her RLP title
with great runs/scores!
July 09
Agility News:
Fun weekend in Perry, GA. Savannah gets her
first std Q in agility with a second place! ONE bar prevented her q's in
each jww. Tango gets 3 Q's, 3 first places!
Way to go, Lloyd, with his very first agility dog. Videos on their
pages. Demi (Savannah's littermate) had nice runs
in excellent std and open jww.
NEW PICS of Vamp and G!
June 09
My Sister's Keeper
with Ryder is now in theaters!
New video of Will
New pics of littermates Alice &
Brandy
Moss gets a 3 pt major win at his very first dog show
in Asheville, NC
May 09
Irish places 6th in Super Open freestyle USDDN - way
to go, Mark! Video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnnfrQMYa8s
Finn gets his CGC - Congrats to his owner, Sandy!
New Greta pictures! Also, some fun pics from
her chicken round-up
Brandy and her owner Alisa in NJ won first place in
their age division in Bark for the Cure's 5K race, averaging a little over 7
mins per mile - wow!
Congrats to Kisha's son,
Slater, who just won
GRAND Champion status in Australia. Savannah, Mercer and Will also send congrats
to their handsome half-brother!
Will gets his first point at his first dog show
April 09
Vamp earns her CGC with flying colors with Becky!
Savannah gets her TDI certification so she can now make therapy visits
Way to go Beth, Joe and Guinness! Guinness gets his CGC and is quite the well-behaved gentleman at 7 months old.
Will gets his hip results back, he's OFA GOOD :)
NEW! Movie trailer for My Sister's Keeper (Click link): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17sIyLOm0Xc
Came across this today http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/m9CUCQUFUI73K
Mercer is a champion! He wins a 4 point major in Perry, GA. Congrats to Cecilia, Mercer's owner, and thank you for the opportunity to handle him on this special day! He also got his HIC and CGC as well. Greta wins best of breed and a herding Group 1st in the large, competitive puppy match in Perry, as well!
Mercer wins a 5 point major in Elkton, Florida! He only needs one more point to finish his championship.
New Greta pictures!
Busy month to come! We've had a few slight changes than originally
planned. Several disc events, a herding trial, some TDI tests and some
conformation shows thrown in, perhaps, if I can get out of town every weekend
this month! And then, hopefully some puppies for May.
Happy first Birthday to the
Chloe x Cap kids this month!!!
March 09
Will is going to be playing disc this spring!
Will spent some time with the GA Irish gang but is coming back home (he is a
mama's boy!). Now I just need to make myself train with Mark when I can
and learn how to throw that piece of plastic better! I really appreciate
the drills and different throwing technique he taught me.
Demi gets her Open Agility title!
I have updated the recent Stella x Cap litter page
- they are 6 months old and now have individual pages with updates.
February 09
Greta
arrives from Germany!
Thank you, Carolyn Brack!
Will's
page has been updated with new pictures. More to come soon.
Came across a magazine with a really neat quote from Emma Roberts (Julia
Robert's niece), one of the stars in Hotel For Dogs
“There was this one dog,
a Border Collie named Ryder (he played Shep in the movie), who was the smartest
animal I had ever been around. I’ve done a lot of horseback riding, and I
always thought horses were the smartest animals, but this collie was brilliant.
Even though he’s a trained movie dog, you could tell by everything he did, from
eating to heeling, that he’s just the smartest dog alive. We became great,
great friends, and I’ll never forget that dog. I hope he never forgets me.”
-Emma Roberts interview in Healthy Pets Magazine, Winter 2008
December 08
12/13/08 Being a Nintendo Wii fan, I was thrilled to learn they have
made a game out of Hotel For Dogs!
http://www.hotelfordogsthegame.com/ Also, an exclusive FAO
Schwarz plush toy! More Hotel For Dogs
stuff here.
*Also! Congrats to Kathy and Journey, who are
competing in UKC. She is currently ranked #1 in Border Collies for
2008:
http://www.ukcdogs.com/WebSite.nsf/WebPages/DETopTen (#1 as of 11/08)
12/6/08 Savannah earns her breed
Championship by going Best of Breed in Lake City, FL! All of her
points came from the Bred By Exhibitor Class. Also, I just received new
Irish and Tango videos!
November 08
11/29/08 Savannah does Savannah (again!)
and wins a 4 point major from the Bred-By-Exhibitor class and goes Best of Breed
at Savannah Kennel Club shows with a large entry. Also, her littermate brother, Mercer, goes Best of
Opposite sex to her, from the classes, for a 4 point major as well. Congrats to Mercer's
owner-handler, Cecilia Lamb! Very unfortunately, the show had to be
canceled for the final two days due to rain.
11/15/08 Ocala, FL show: Mercer goes Winners
Dog/Best of Winners for points under judge Linn Klingel, who is also the head of
the Judges' Education Committee for the Border Collie Society of America.
Also, Savannah received her heart clearance for OFA database from a cardio vet
specialist at a clinic at the show.
11/7/08 weekend Demi earns her NA, NAJ agility
titles and a leg in
Open Standard!
She will return to agility competition in the spring with her owner,
Donna.
Congrats to you both!
11/1/08 - Herding news! Sport and I go
HIGH IN
TRIAL in FL with a 96.5 on his B course run! Sport also completed his HSAd title and his HSBs title!
My princess, Savannah, earns her PT as well. I
also got to visit with Cirque (Cap x Stella) this
weekend, who has a new
video! Also, Savannah's herding page
has been updated with new
video as well. What a GREAT weekend.
September 08
9/13/08 Stella has her puppies! 2 boys and 4 girls.
9/1/08 Pete goes to his new home, where he will
get to be a disc dog. I will miss him so much! What a pup and what a
great 15 weeks I had with him. We look forward to great things in the
future from Pete and Joe!
August 08
Hampton earns his OA (with a 1st place) and OAJ
(with a 2nd) with very fast times! Congrats to
his 13 yr old
owner-handler, Courtney, who has only had him just a little over a
year, and is her first agility dog. This same
weekend he also Q'd and 1st
place in his first Excellent Standard run.
Mercer's page has been updated!
Mercer gets his ortho clearances! OFA Hips
Good, Elbows are Normal. He also has clearances for normal Thyroid,
Cardio, BAER, CERF and is CEA/CH/CL/TNS Clear/Normal as well.
July 08
Cirque graduates his puppy agility class "with honors" !
Hammy now has two legs towards his OA and OAJ agility titles!
June 08
There is now a preview/trailer for Hotel For Dogs
www.hotelfordogsmovie.com
Ryder has his own downloadable screensaver :)
We have updated the available dogs page. Also, Hampton earns his NAJ!
May 12
A call to OFA (couldn't wait for answer!) for
Savannah's excellent hip and normal elbow results!
May 4
Kisha earns her PT title and Sport
and I fumble our way through and receive a second HSAd leg!
April 12
Tom gave us updates on our Border Collie movie
actors and their newest feature film!
April 8
Chloe x Cap puppies are born.
April 1
Cirque spends his day on the set of the movie,
Marley and Me
March
Hampton earns his Novice Agility title.