Mellie earned her MACH 4 title at On The Run Canine Center on December 3, 2011 at the Border Collie Society of America agility trial under judge Karen Winter. The MACH bar and ribbon are really nice and will look good with her growing collection.

The rest of Team Alasera had some nice accomplishments as well.

Ace had some very nice runs and qualifying scores and JOLT (just one little thing) prevented three QQs. Best of all, he accomplished three nice teeter performances with the familiar teeter at OTR.

Katie was speedy as always and turned in some very nice runs. A few dogwalk leaps prevented some double Q’s and already is back in remedial training in the basement to perfect her technique.

Ripley had 6 out of 6 clean runs but only earned two QQs due to a slow Jumpers performance on the second day causing an NQ. But he is really focusing so much better and we had no problems with his teeter. He is up to 13 QQ and over 500 points.

Abby had a great Time2 Beat run, coming in second to Mellie who led the pack. Did a great teeter and put me in high spirits. After that, trial stress found her again and we struggled all week-end to even get her off the start line. Need to come up with a new approach so it is back to the drawing board with her.

This trial followed right on the heels of the Thanksgiving week-end trial at TCOTC. We had a lot of succcess there as well. Now for some down time and recharging.