Saturday 1 October 2005

Cas - Top Dog

We filmed a programme called Top Dog for Animal Planet, presented by Shauna Lowry. 9am - 7pm!

Assualt Course - Straight up and down agility course, Cas unfortunately had 5f on the long jump, 5f for refusing the dog walk (which several dogs did and we couldn't understand why) and 5f for the A-frame. Finishing in 3rd place with 6 points.


Scent - My sock was placed in amongst a pile of clothes and she had to hunt it out. Only problem being she had to do this at the same time as the other 5 dogs, needless to say she was more interested in what they were doing, eventually finding her sock and coming 4th with 4 points.


Musical Chairs - As it sounds, it wasn't really a test of the dog at all. We've always been rubbish at this game as we don't cheat unlike others, so we came 3rd, again with 6 points.


Temptation - Mr Hog the butcher had a huge pile of sausages he took them right under the dogs nose. Cas stayed there for a minute and didn't touch them - did move away from him though as he was very scary! So she scored the full 10 points.


Trick - This was our best round and she did a few freestyle moves and skateboarding and basketball. She was a little off her head as had been sitting round doing nothing most of the day but did really well. I am not sure how many points she got in this round.


Overall she was placed second so I was quite pleased, Cas was a star and did exactly as she was asked. It was a long day for us both.Shropshire Star were there and ran an article: