Bragging Rights

Border Terrier Club of America National Specialty and Associated Events

Fells had fun participating in the Therapy Dog evaluation (which he passed) and the Trick Dog evaluation where he earned his Advanced Trick Dog Title.

Cape Breton KC Rally Trials - July 07, 2018 - Sydney NS

Fells and Donna made a courageous foray into Rally Master and Qualified with a hard earned 94 under judge Susan Bosence

He's a "Tricky" Fellow

November 11, 2017 - New Jersey
Fells capitalised on his Canine Good Citizen status to earn not only his AKC Novice Trick Dog title, but also his Intermediate title.

Surely You Jest????

Although many of Fells' antics leave us shaking our heads in dismay, he is really a very good dog so it is no surprise that he passed his Canine Good Citizen Test on September 26, 2015.

Advancing nicely - 21 August 2015

Fells earned his 2nd RA leg at the Oriole Dog Training Club obedience and rally trial under judge Linda Moore.
He was in 5th place with a 97 in a huge class

Border Terrier Canada 2015 National Specialty related events

Alberta Kennel Club Rally - July 31st - August 3rd, 2015, Spruce Meadows, Alberta
Fells completed his CKC Rally Excellent Title plus a bonus leg under judges Pearl Fabbro, Mike Calhoun and Sandy Briggs.
He was also on the qualifying Border Terrier Only rally team, which also was in first place - OK, so we were the only team entered but the team qualified!!!

Come Dance with me - or not! - June 13, 2015

Donna and Fells competed in a live performance event with My Way Canine Freestyle
Fells earned a Novice leg with "Run Around Sue" by Dion.
Although it was a bit roughit went well enough that Donna an Fells will work on it and try it for an Intermediate freestyle leg with MSDA.

Nosing Around - March 22, 2015

Dedication best sums up Donna's 3:15 am departure for a Nosework Test at SUNY Cobbleskill in their brand new animal/plant building.
Fells rocked the indoor searches, with good times in all three interior searches and a pronounced mark and third place in the container search.
Nice going in very chilly conditions.

March 14, 2015 - So You Think You Can Dance!

Donna's dogs' talents are not limited to the formal events we are most familiar with but they also venture into the creative.

At a Freestyle Live Event (you go and have one chance to do the dance correctly) this Sarurday Fells and Donna performed to "If My Friends Could See Me Now"

In Donna's words

Fells was in Novice. Fells has been refusing to do the start of this routine. He's supposed to do a backing up move, a move that he generally enjoys doing, except when I'm depending on him to do it, but he's been sitting in front of me and barking.
Thinking about it last night I came up with an alternate move to do if he decided that barking is better than moving. I could slip into the alternate and then move into the next part of the routine. I settled it in my head and then went to sleep.
Today he did the backing up beautifully ... then refused to do any of the rest of the routine when he was supposed to do it.
At least the first 10 seconds were right. :) But, since Fells can do much better than Novice when he's on, even being distracted today he passed. Yeah!

Way to end the year - December 31, 2014

Fells earned his flyball ONYX (20,000 points) title at the Chaos Unleashed Tournament on the last day of 2014 in Exton, PA.
It is a tiny tournament with 15 teams and no lights or automatic pass calling.
Since it was a New Years Eve party tournament though, there was lots of food! It was a Fells kind of tournament!

September 20-21, Barnhunt at Spring Cove Farm, just across the Bay Bridge on the Eastern shore of Maryland.

Fells not only earned his third Barnhunt Senior leg with a first place finish for his RATS title but also his first Master leg also placing first under judge Judy Todd

Poetry in Motion - August 02-03, 2014

Fells earned his FMCH (15k) title
He was a lean mean jumping machine!

He Knows his Nosework

The epitome of teamwork and too good not to share the whole story
From Donna:

Yesterday (June 15, 2013) Fells earned his NW3 title. This is astounding to me. It is a really hard title that takes most dogs many tests to earn.

34 Border Terriers have NW1, 9 Border Terriers have NW2, and now 2 Border Terriers have their NW3. The first was Gretchen Ganz's Pookah, who also happened to be at this test. Gretchen is from Alaska and travels around North America attending as many nosework trials as she can with her two BTs.

I entered both dogs in this test. Fells got in. Colin was number 37 on the wait list. Since the NW3 test only has a maximum of 26 dogs competing on a given day, the chance of Colin getting in was pretty slim. If he had gotten in I would have switched them as Colin is my more experienced dog. But Fells is coming into his own! I don't know that Colin would have passed this.

It doesn't really sound like NW3 would be that much harder than NW2. The only differences are that:
1) there is one more odor (actually this doesn't seem to make a big difference to most dogs)
2) there are 3 interior rooms to search (1 in NW1; 2 in NW2; and 3 in NW3)
3) there can be 0 to 3 hides and the competitors are not told how many there are (only the interior rooms have the potential of no hides). This is nerve wracking! And it goes on all day! Not until the award ceremony are people told how many hides there were. So while I knew that we hadn't called any bad hides, I didn't know if we had missed any hides until that information was posted just before the award ceremony began.
4) they try to make the hides more difficult with inaccessible hides, threshold hides, and converging odor hides. Plus, they play with your head by sometimes having no hides in the largest rooms or hides in the 'open' areas of the rooms rather than in among stuff. They try to go against assumptions for some of the hides and with assumptions for others so that you're never sure.

Vehicles:
Fells' historically most difficult area was the first he did that day. It was four small school buses parked along the wall, all facing out. With the wall making a shallow L right there, the breeze caused the air to swirl clockwise around the buses. We started the search and Fells immediately found the odor in the wheelwell of the closest one to us. We pretty much stepped over the line and into that one. Then we circled behind the back of it and Fells wanted to keep going past the back of the second one too and then we walked between two and three. Fells found odor around the wheelwells and the side of the bumpers/fenders closest to the wheels in the front of both buses, but couldn't pinpoint it. I took note of that and we kept going. He then went between buses one and two with the same sort of behavior, finding odor around the front wheels/front side of the buses, even less now, but there. We then went to the end of the line and walked on the outside of bus four. Fells found a hide in the side of the front bumper near the wheelwell there. Two correct! We went between buses three and four and the scent wanted to take Fells back to the bus four hide, went between two and three and found nothing, so I called finish and we were done. If I had had my good head on I would have realized that the bus four odor was what we had picked up the first time through between buses two and three, but I didn't realize it then and so worried about it during the rest of the day. There was clearly a hide on bus four, the breeze blew that odor across the front area of the buses and the wheelwells were catching and holding the odor a bit. The same area between three and four pulled Fells to four. The same area between two and three had odor, but not as clear a direction as the breeze was pushing it away from four. That area between two and one had a lingering odor, but even less there. Then, of course, bus one had it's own odor in that same wheelwell facing out. That bus one odor took us back and behind the buses, probably lingered in the shallow L of the wall, but then was quickly lost. So it turned out that two was right.

Exterior:
We went right to exterior from vehicles. Fells and I lined up at the start and directly in front of us, about 10 feet away was a pair of empty pallets with one somewhat on top of the other. Then behind them was lots of other things including two pallets with stuff on them. On the right of the pallets was empty ground to the curb and then onto grass/dirt holding boundary flags for this area. The grass dirt was out of play. To the left was a lot of junk all against the wall of the building with a couple of doors leading into the building. The empty pallets just called to Fells and he drove right from the start line to them. I took note that we had missed the first bit of the area and kept with him. He found a hide under the pallets where he couldn't get to it, but it was there. One found. We then circled the area checking all that we reached until we were back to start. I tried to make sure that we covered all the ground. Then right at the start area Fells jumped onto the grass/dirt area and started sniffing. I suspected small furry things had been there. He followed it back to a large crack in the curb. It was large enough that I could see into it and I saw nothing. Then Fells gave his "found the hide" signal. I was confused and thought that it was rat poop in there, but it was the right signal so I called alert and the judge said yes. I said finish and we were done.

On the way back I met Gretchen Ganz and she started talking about how she wanted to make a T-shirt that said "No Nose No's" and after talking to her was when I realized that the judge didn't say yes to indicate that he had heard me, but to indicate that we had found a real hide. So Fells "rat poop" hide was correct. There had been odor in there! The judge would have said no if we had called a bad alert. I was still worried about missing hides though.

Interior:
We had three rooms. None of the hides were particularly hard for Fells, mainly because tile floors don't bother him, and there were a lot of bathroom tiled floors involved. He also had no trouble jumping on the benches in the locker room area, so he could get everywhere he wanted to go. I just stood back and let him go, since we could do these off leash. In the first, medium size room, he found a hide under a bench and in the bottom of the door frame between the locker area and the bathroom. In the second, smallest room, he found a hide in the hinge of a bathroom stall in the corner. In the third, largeet, room he said that a find was in a locker, but that he couldn't get to it, and another was in the hinge of another bathroom stall. This had so much area that I thought there had to be a third hide and we looked for it, but never found it. Fells and I got pronounced for this search.

Containers:
Containers was at the end of the day and traditionally is the search that knocks out a lot of the competitors. In nosework 2, you know how many hides there are and generally if the dog is trained he finds them and indicates them and you're done. You have to worry about the dog preferring the distractions over the odor, of course, but the dog knows that he'll get treated if he finds the odor and that helps some. So you hope to get in there, get it done, and get out. In nosework 3 you keep looking. Now you have a dog who knows (or thinks) that he has found all the hides and won't get treated for them again, yet there is food to be found here and you are encouraging him to check out all the bags including the ones with the food.

So we set up on the start line and I told Fells to find the hides. He beelined to a can and indicated it. One found. Then we kept looking. Twice Fells looked interested in a bag and on one of those bags he started digging at it, but it wasn't his "found the odor" pawing. It was, in my opinion, his "let me get in there and eat this" pawing, so I didn't call them. We checked all the bags at that point and I said finish, but was really unsure when I left about not calling the Dora the Explorer pink bag, especially when the "rat poop" hide had turned out to be a real hide. Later I found out that Dora held blue corn tortilla chips. Fells and I got pronounced for this one too. They said that I read my dog well.

And we were done!! Yeah Fells!!

Border Terrier Canada 2014 National Specialty related events

Erie Shores Kennel Club Rally Trials - June 6th - 8th, 2014

Fells earned his CKC Rally Novice and Rally Advanced Titles with six straight qualifying rounds under judges Sharon Smith, Marie Sawford and Mike Calhoun with scores of 90, 100, 99 (Novice) and 97, 80, 91 (Advanced)

Border Terrier Club of America Specialty, Purina Farms, Gray Summit, MO - May 18-22, 2014

May 20th, Tuesday -- Obedience/Rally/Sweepstakes
Fells earned an Advanced Rally leg with an 89 and second place. (Judge Ginger Kinion)
and a Beginner Novice obedience leg with a 190. (Judge Ginger Kinion)

New MB Title - May 03-04, 2014

Donna's flyball team had a tournament this past weekend. Fells did very very well.
He and Donna went all weekend with out making any errors. Donna did not cross. Fells did not bobble, even a little bit, and he ran consistently all weekend, except ... he got faster!
Fells was averaging running 0.5 to 1 second faster per heat than in his past tournaments.
He really did a terrific job! Fells got his next multi-breed title, MBFDCH-S(Silver) (1000k points in multibreed running).
He was a really great little dog!

Nosework 19th April, 2014 - West Milton Pennsylvania

The epitome of teamwork - Donna's account says it all - long, but well worth the read for anyone interested in Nosework, Barnhunt or any sport requiring this level of handler/dog communication

"We got up early Saturday morning, before dawn to drive to the site. It took a bit more than 3 hours. The parking area was nice, which is not common with nosework trials. Since they want you confined when not being tested, so that you don't see anything, the competitors are normally restricted to a small condensed area. Here we had a huge field where we could park and walk the dogs. In the bright sun and slightly cool temperatures, it was a beautiful day to be outside, especially on the side of a large hill or small mountain where you could see quite a distance.

Slightly up the mountain was the lodge where they did the registration and hospitality including indoor bathrooms. As you continued up and then down, and somewhat to the right, was the dining hall which they used for the container search and the award ceremony at the end of the day. A little further walk from there was the exterior search, a relatively small area for a NW2 exterior search, but jammed with interesting things. Then walking some more up and down and you get to the swimming pool and just on the other side of the building next to the pool was a gravel area they used for the vehicle search. Keep walking on this slightly curving, like a crescent path, and you reach a few small cabins and a bathroom building, two of these cabins were used for the interior search. Then, of course, there's the long walk back to the lodge and then back down to the parking area.

In the morning they did the two farthest searches, the vehicles and the interior, one immediately after the other. In the afternoon they did the exterior and the container, again one immediately after the other. Fells was the 13th dog in group B which meant that he was the 30th dog of 34 to run both in the morning and in the afternoon. This was probably inevitable as he's been one of the first ones to run in some of the portions of his earlier tests this year. So after the handler briefing the test started and we settled in to wait. I was somewhat happy to have the vehicle test, the one he seemed to have the most trouble with, as his first of the day. It meant that I wouldn't get myself into as much of a state worrying about it.

After a few hours it was our turn to do the morning tests. We went to the warm up boxes and Fells walked right by the odor box, ignoring it, checked every other box out there and then finally decided to mark the box with the odor, the first one he had originally encountered. Was this a good or a bad omen? We hiked and hiked and hiked and I encouraged Fells to eliminate anything that might be in him. Of course Fells was too excited to do anything.

We finally got to the vehicles, four of them, three cars and one truck, each making a side of a square. There were two hides and we had 3 minutes. Fells started and went to the side of the car closest to the start and gave it a small sniff and then walked to it's rear as to circle and go into the center of the square, but at the rear of the car he got the scent around the license plate. He sniffed down from the license plate and then wanted to go diagonally from the plate to the rear tire on the outside of the square (where he had just been). I kept him pretty much out from under the car, but allowed him to circle around to the tire and he quickly found the hide. I said alert and praised and treated him and then told Fells to find another hide. Unfortunately then Fells became very distracted by the area. Talking to the other competitors, especially those with terriers, and from the discussion at the end of the day, this was very common. The person who chose the hides admitted that this vehicle search was harder than the normal ones done on asphalt. This one was done on gravel with large areas of packed dead leaves. There was no question that a lot of small furry creatures used this area quite often. Fells was riveted on the gravel and leaves and the great scents and food/poop that he could eat. i was torn as I wasn't certain what he was following and didn't want to pull him away from the scent if he was picking up odor from the car off of the gravel. Finally he seemed to find a spot that had some terrific food smells. Since we had had so many dogs running before us and it was gravel (difficult to clean between dogs), I thought that maybe we were close to the real odor. So without pulling him, I said "Fells" in a way that would get him to stop digging for food and look at me and then told him, "Please look up." and he did! I don't think he actually understood me, but once he fully got his head up, he did seem to catch odor off the car and found and indicated it. Yeah! It took him 2:23.66 minutes out of the three. Most of that was finding the second hide. We got through vehicles!!! Vehicles had a 67% success record among all the dogs.

Next was interiors. Two rooms. Each was a one room cabin. Each cabin had one hide. The first room was a bunk room. We all joked that interiors on the East Coast seems to always have a bunk room to search. Fells ran in and proceeded to jump up onto every bed. He circled the room and came up on a high table thing that looked like a one drawer night stand that grew long legs, so that it was about desk height. Fells went up and down the front left leg, then went up and down the back left leg and checked the window behind that leg. Then he repeated this, spending even more time on the front left leg. I wasn't sure whether to accept that leg as a find or not, so I waited a little bit more. Fells shifted to the drawer itself and then brought up his paw and marked it. I called alert and Fells was right. It was in the drawer. Normally the competitors would have been told that the dogs should have gotten this one quicker as it was technically a threshold hide, right next to the entrance door, but in this case the wooden door opened into the room and stayed there. We went in and out using the screen door. So the wooden door blocked the odor fairly well from the dog as he entered. Most of the dogs circled like Fells did. He had 2:30 to find the hide and did it in 1:03.

Next was the kitchen cabin. Fells went in and started to circle the room. A quarter of the way around he found a toaster oven sitting on a low shelf. He checked out the end of the shelf, the end of the toaster oven, and then went to the center of the toaster oven and indicated that the odor was right underneath it there. Again he was right. Fells got a P for Pronounced (a good thing) for his interior work. He had 2 minutes to find the hide and found it in 27 seconds.

We ate lunch then waited for a few more hours. Next was exteriors followed by containers. I hadn't had time that morning to buy a breakfast biscuit! Searching the car I found a huge dog biscuit that we had been given for me working the second day at the Gettysburg nosework test the first weekend in April. So when we were up I gave Fells the biscuit. He had managed to eat half of it before we had to do exteriors.

The exterior test was a relatively small area with a bench, a gazebo, a picnic table, two large trees with many roots coming out of them, a white bucket next to a little brown shed like thing that might hold salt or compost or a trash can, and a chain link fence along one of it's sides. It was also quite windy that afternoon. There were two hides and we had 3:30. Fells quickly found the first hide in the bench. Then he went in and then around the inside of the gazebo, after the second or third time around the bench in the gazebo, it was clear to me that the scent was pooling in there, but the actual odor was not in there itself. I brought him out and he got interested in one of the trees and then followed the scent and was going like an arrow right back to the bench. The wind was blowing right in his face it was also going from the bench to the tree and from the bench to the gazebo as well. At this point I got frustrated. That stupid bench was stinking up well over half the area! So I decided to bring Fells to areas where the bench odor was less likely to reach, quickly clear those, and if we still didn't find the second hide, then try to work in the area that the bench was affecting. We went to the shed thing and Fells immediately alerted to something around the bucket. He found a spot along a rim and indicated. Yes! He got it! And we were done! In 2 minutes 11 seconds of the 3:30 allowed.

Finally containers and Fells must resist the food and indicate the odor. One hide. 2:30 minutes. Just before we went in I should him the prime roast beef that I had saved for this one test. He had gotten cheese for the others, but I told him that he could have all the roast beef and the second half of the biscuit if he'd just focus on the odor. He did! Straight as an arrow to the odor. Even with me delaying my call until I was sure, he still got it in 18.15 seconds, got a P for pronounced, and took second place among all the dogs tested that day. He got the roast beef right then and the rest of the biscuit as soon as we were outside and away from the test enough so that we weren't in the way of the dog following us.

All the tests besides vehicles had a 75% success record and 13 dogs of the 34 who ran that day got their titles. I'm so glad that Fells was one of them! "

Barn Hunt, Robbinsville, NJ - March 15-16, 2014

Fells showed his dad how it was done by qualifying two times in four runs.

In his first qualifying run, he found all four occupied tubes in 3 minutes 29.18 seconds which was just under the 3 minutes 30 seconds maximum time.
He took third place among all the dogs running Senior.

In his second qualifying run, Fells methodically searched for the quarry and found all four in 2 minutes 18 seconds.
He took first place among all the dogs running Senior

Dancing with the paws - February 07, 2014

Donna learned that she and Fells earned their second leg in Novice Freestyle with Musical Dog Sports Association (MDSA) through their December 2013 video event.
They danced to "If My Friends Could See Me Now" sung by Dusty Springfield - a very fitting choice of music.

Jet Set Flyball Tournament near Hershey, PA - November 07-08, 2013

In the simplest of terms, he got the job done.
Fells ran all weekend without making an error or having even a minor bobble. He needed 860 points for his next title, Flyball Master Excellent (FMX -- 10,000 points) and he got it!
An achievement that certainly made the drive home in somewhat nasty weather a deal more tolerable.
Nice going young man!

Barn Hunt saga continues - Virginia Beach Barnhunt Test, Cheswood Farm, Chesapeake, VA - November 09-10, 2013

In Donna's words

"We went to Cheswood Farm in Chesapeake, VA for a weekend of barnhunts. Two test per day for two days. There were three Border Terriers and I had two of them.

The tests were run in this order:
Test #1 Intro
Test #2 Intro
Test #1 Novice
Test #2 Novice
lunch break
Test #1 Open (13 dogs)
Test #1 Senior (2 dogs)
Test #2 Open (15 dogs including two dogs that got their titles in Test #1 Novice and so moved up and didn't run in Test #2 Novice)
Test #2 Senior (2 dogs)

There were three setups. One was the Intro area. One was the Novice area. The third was where Open and Senior were run.

Fells ran in the last group for his RATO runs. He was the last dog to run Open in both tests.
In the first test he was really good and you couldn't miss his signals as he attacked the tubes. He won second place in his height.
In the second test, one of the rat tubes was just in front of the release area next to the tunnel. He found it, but before he indicated I sent him through the tunnel. He obeyed, ran through the tunnel, then when I told him to get the rats, he turned around and raced back through the tunnel and went right to where he had found the tube. Bad Donna! Calling your dog off the rat! Fells again got second place in his height. Just couldn't beat that first place dog.

On Sunday, Fells got his third RATO leg and second place in his height division behind a Jack Russell Terrier to complete his RATO Title."

Barn Hunt - the continuing story - September 21-22, 2013

Fells completed his RATI and RATN titles. In RATN, he earned a third place and a second place in his height division (medium). The test was held at Marion Shaw's house on the Eastern Shore of Maryland

In Donna's words

"In the RATI test Fells analyzed and thought and finally gently tapped the correct tube..
In RATN on Saturday morning, Fells found and lightly indicated every single place the the tube with the rat had been, before clearly indicating where it was now.
In RATN in the afternoon, Fells was more sure of himself and did a really nice locate and indication of the rat.
On Sunday, Fells qualified in RATN and got second place in the medium class. This was his title! "

Oriole Dog Training Club, Baltimore, MD, August 23, 2013

Nice way to finish.

Fells earned the third leg on hs AKC Rally Novice title by qualifying with aa 96 and a fourth place in Rally Novice B under judge Jeffrey Showman.

Freestyle Feedback

Fells' (and Donna's) submission of their routine danced to "High Hopes" by Bing Crosby was judged as qualifying for his first leg in Novice Freestyle with Musical Dog Sports Association (MDSA).
You can watch the video here

This brag will benefit Kiva

Flying to the Next Level, April 6-7, 2013

At The Net, in Palmyra, PA Fells earned the next flyball title, the FM (Flyball Master) title which is for 5000 points. The host club was Revolution Flyball club. He ran solidly all weekend and really is enjoying the game.

Chugging right along, September 1st thru 3rd, 2012

From Donna

Fells got his newest flyball title, FDCH-G on Monday (2500 points).
Our team had a major problem when two of our fastest dogs, both Border Collies, came up injured early on Saturday. We attempted to keep the teams running, but it was clear that it wasn't doing the team's Doberman any good when she started flagging at the end of Saturday races, so Fells was brought in.
In addition to his own team where he ran full time he also ran 6 extra heats on another team where he was listed as a backup dog.
He wasn't fast, but he he was consistant and solid and did everything right.

Oriole Dog Training Club, Baltimore, MD, August 24, 2012

Although his score is most definitely classified, Fells earned his second Rally Novice leg - Words like "gift" were mentioned.

...and still Flying

On July 8th, 2012, Fells earned his FDCH-S (Flyball Dog Champion - Silver 1000 points) title running on a team with just three Border Collies and himself.
They were really relying on him by putting him on a team with three seasoned and fast dogs and absolutely no backup.
He held up very well and while not the fastest, he was very steady and an asset to the club.

Flying with the best of them

In Donna's words
Today (June 23, 2012) Fells and I went to the Fur Fun Coconut Classic Flyball tournament in York, PA. It is traditionally the largest tournament in our area and this year it had even more teams, some from Texas, and others from New England and Upstate New York, and one from Toronto.
Because of the number running each team got about 3/4 of the runs we'd get on a normal flyball weekend and it starts early (racing began at 7 am) and ends late (it looked like it'd be over by 8:30 pm today).
Fells was to run half-time, but we worked it out with the people running the dog he's splitting with for Fells to get all of his runs today.
Fells had a lot of fun and raced all but two heats perfectly. Those two he bobbled the ball, but held himself together and no one was disappointed in him.
He ran 13 heats with no errors at all. I suspect that the bobbles are due to him trying to run faster and misjudging the balls release.
He got enough points for his next title, FDCh (Flyball Dog Champion -- 500 points).

2012 BTCA Specialty Achievements, Oconomowoc WI, June 10-14, 2012

Fells earned his first Earthdog Ribbons qualifying in Intro at the BTCA ED Specialty Test (and the preceding all breed Test). He also earned his first Rally Novice leg qualifying under Border breeder judge, Jennifer Tollefson.

The nose knows

Fells earned his nosework title on June 03, 2012 with a great deal of enthusiasm and enjoyment.
The first element he did was the container search (a series of boxes, one of which has the odor). He quickly found and indicated the scent (20.57 seconds -- he was allowed 2.5 minutes). He was awarded the "Pronounced" designation for this element, meaning we worked particularly well as a team.
The second element he did was the exterior search, a small picnic pavillon, and some mulch ground area along it's side. He found the scent in a crack in the cement between two of the tables. (1 minute 37.88 seconds -- he was allowed 3 minutes). He was awarded Pronounced for this one too.
The third element was the vehicle search. Fells wanted to go down the hill and check out what was down there, but Donna refocused kim on the cars and once he remembered what he was supposed to do, quickly found the odor behind the hub cap of a tire. (37.31 seconds -- he was allowed three minutes). No pronounced on this one, instead he got "a little distracted".
The fourth element was the interior search. It was inside a game room with a ping pong table, pool table, one of those soccer tables with the little men on poles, and some video game things you find in video game arcades. On this one he was able to work off leash. He enjoyed the running around and was able to run behind one of the video games where he found the scent, (32.42 seconds --- he was allowed three minutes). Another Pronounced award to round out the day

Wow - that was fast!!!!

Fells completed the points required for his Flyball title (FD.) on May 5th, 2012 and then upgraded that to "Flyball Excellent" the same day.

Fells is really flying!