Lure coursing Cardigan puppies

[dreameyce]

I had the privilege of being invited by the owner of Dallas Air Dogs to bring my 9wo Cardigan Welsh Corgi pups (Baby siblings to Keeva!) down to her place to play on the baby lure, and also run some of my adult dogs on the full course. The baby lure is a 20-30 yard simple course, and run slow for babies. Low impact for the babies, but gave me a chance to see how they liked it, and their prey drive. They LOVED it, and all caught on to chasing it really fast!

The hard part is picking out only 10 pics, since I can only post 10 photos per thread, here's the full link to all the pics: http://www.texasdogphotography.com/d...oursedec302012

SheDaisy, Ginger, Dixie, Lokee

IMG_3566112 by Emily / DreamEyce, on Flickr

Freckles

IMG_3422112 by Emily / DreamEyce, on Flickr

Dixie

IMG_3313112 by Emily / DreamEyce, on Flickr

Jovi

IMG_3275112 by Emily / DreamEyce, on Flickr

Lokee

IMG_3373112 by Emily / DreamEyce, on Flickr

Clooney

IMG_3324112 by Emily / DreamEyce, on Flickr

SheDaisy loved chasing the 'bunny' during lure cousing, but most of all, she loved catching it! "Get dat bunny!"

IMG_3510112 by Emily / DreamEyce, on Flickr

Ginger

IMG_3612112 by Emily / DreamEyce, on Flickr

Clooney, Freckles, and Dixie

IMG_3292112 by Emily / DreamEyce, on Flickr

[dreameyce]

Some pics of their Daddy (Roy Rogers) lure coursing on a 600 yard field. He's a natural! (And he is also a UKC CH, AKC major pointed, nosework titled, and herds *G*)


211542 by Emily / DreamEyce, on Flickr


211520 by Emily / DreamEyce, on Flickr


211540 by Emily / DreamEyce, on Flickr


211519 by Emily / DreamEyce, on Flickr


211613 by Emily / DreamEyce, on Flickr

Their Mama Galaxy usually would have run too, but she was on rest from having tweaked her shoulder going over the babies 4ft x-pen. She was fine, but I didn't get pics of her lure coursing this time since I didn't want to run her post injury and aggravate her healing.

[~Tucker&Me~]

Awesome pictures and very cool to see some corgis outside of the show ring.

More pictures? I want to see what mum looks like!

[Emily]

Meeeep! So cute!!! So who was the most into it?

[dreameyce]

Originally Posted by Emily

Meeeep! So cute!!! So who was the most into it?

Funny thing is, LoKee was most into it. She's normally the 'quiet one', but apparently like her big brother Bernie, she fooled me good! *G* She now lives with, and is terrorizing the Doxie that Galaxy had helped find a few months ago, after the car accident where Sasha (The Doxie) was missing in the woods a few days.


IMG_3339112 by Emily / DreamEyce, on Flickr

[CatStina]

Oh stop it! This is ridiculously cute!!

[dreameyce]

Originally Posted by ~Tucker&Me~

Awesome pictures and very cool to see some corgis outside of the show ring.

More pictures? I want to see what mum looks like!

Thanks! I love drivey Cardigans, who are not fat slugs *G* Mama Galaxy herds, is a service dog, does volunteer lost dog search work (with multiple successful finds!), nosework, lure courses, and we've successfully done agility and obedience matches. She is one win away from her IABCA Championship (Not many shows, so I've not been able to finish her), and while not AKC pointed, has had multiple competitive class wins, including in supported entries. Being a service dog, and having been on a student budget I could only do a limited number of shows and travel, and chose not to send her off with a handler and to focus on fun stuff with her instead but sometimes I do regret that. I've been toying with entering her in AKC shows this year (She'll be 7 in march) just for the heck of it, and plan on showing her in UKC.


Galaxy at 6yrs. This is what Keeva (her 'clone' in red!) will look like in 4 years:

211254 by Emily / DreamEyce, on Flickr

211260 by Emily / DreamEyce, on Flickr

211272 by Emily / DreamEyce, on Flickr
Water dog. But I've not yet been able to convince her to dock dive... will keep working on that come summertime!

211054 by Emily / DreamEyce, on Flickr

[dreameyce]

Originally Posted by ~Tucker&Me~

Awesome pictures and very cool to see some corgis outside of the show ring.

More pictures? I want to see what mum looks like!

Galaxy playing at the lake 3 days before she free-whelped the above 7 puppies. She kept her beautiful full suspension 'flying trot'.

Galaxy 3 days prewhelp by Emily / DreamEyce, on Flickr

Galaxy prewhelp by Emily / DreamEyce, on Flickr

We continued hiking, and jogging through her entire pregnancy. She was even lure coursing mid pregnancy in September in humid Texas late summer weather! A really amazing girl, and her hurting her shoulder last week was her first real injury, and she was only limping a few hours. I kept her quiet a few days after simply out of paranoia, since I can't have her hurting herself more.

Galaxy lures by Emily / DreamEyce, on Flickr

[Taqroy]

Keeva is going to be GORGEOUS. And Roy Rogers.....love. Your dogs are gorgeous (and I love the leg on them).

[Moth]

Look at all those gorgeous stubby little dogs

I love seeing the babies lure coursing!