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What a brilliant sister I have! Tiffany passed both trials last night, with a first place in Jumping Excellent and a second place in Agility Excellent. There were two Tollers in the competition, and Bernie came in second in the Jumping Excellent class, so it was a Toller double.

The pic shows Tiffany relaxing this morning with her Sashes, Qualifying cards and her first place Trophy, an engraved whisky glass.

We had a moment of panic in the Jumping when Keith forgot the course for a second, and another one when Tiffany nearly missed a jump, but the final sprint home was great with Tiffany finishing two jumps in front of Keith.

I will not be old enough for Agility until I am 18 months old. 6 months to go and I can't wait for it.

Latest Toller video

There were five of us all in the water having a great time. With Hannah and I were Fur Dad Rio, Fur Mum Jaffa and Fur Auntie Cherry. There is a technique we have for making sure the water is free from crocodiles, we wait for a human pup to go in and if they come out it is safe for us. This lagoon is a stones throw from the centre of Palmerston, surrounded by a great big fence and is used by all the humans for miles around, so it is croc free. Mini Mac was worried about us getting eaten, but we were safe. Click on the 'Marlow's Lagoon' link under Video Links to see us having fun in the water, and Fur Dad Rio doing a trick on the dog play equipment.

Dopey Dad

Tiffany is too upset to type today. Dopey Dad sent her over the wrong jump in the JDX class when she was flying round the course. You can see in the picture, Keith is pointing to a jump, Tiffany is running towards it, and did it beautifully, but it was the wrong jump. She had to turn round and go back to the right jump and still completed the course under time, but she got a DQ anyway.

She was still grumbling about it this morning, but she is getting over it. Hopefully things will settle down by next week.

Snookered

I almost made it in the Snooker last night. I got 17 points in the opening round and I only needed 10, then went all the way round the closing sequence right up to the exit colour of the Dog Walk and I missed the colour. I got everything else, but missing the last colour put me out. The pic shows me on top of the Dog Walk when we were at Alice Springs. Karen's brother in law took the photo, so thank you to him for the great action shots.

I missed a jump in the Agility Excellent course and then got DQ for jumping it wrong way, so last night was not very successful at all. Hope the Jumping and Gamblers courses go better tonight.

Fannie Bay

The Touring Tollers were at Fannie Bay today. We went for a drive around, had a look over Darwin Harbour and had lunch at Fannie Bay. The pic shows us on the cliff top overlooking Fanny Bay with the Casino just visible in the background.

Did not do very much today, saving my strength for the Agility and Snooker trials tonight.

Tropical Tollers

Hannah and I are in the tropics at Darwin. We got here today, the humans set up our camp and we had a sleep outside. It is warm all the time, we are finding it hard to find a cool place to snooze.

The pic shows us having a run on the way here at a rest stop. It looks like we are off lead, but it just goes to show you can not trust a picture if Photoshop is handy. The leads made the picture look funny so they got painted out.

Tomorrow we are going to an Agility trial. Not much hope in this heat! I am an Arctic dog, not a Tropical dog. Humans- I could bite them at times.

Max Points and Gamble Dog

Both of us had good news for the weekend in Alice Springs. I am now on 78 points towards my Championship, and I can not get any more until I am twelve months old because I need 25 after my first birthday.

Yesterday Tiffany passed her third Novice Gamblers Trial and now is a Gamble Dog. Her full name will be Champion Sherbrooke Tiffany Ale, CD, AD, JD, GD.

I did not do too well in the obedience trial. The pic shows me doing Heel Free, well I am free, Kathy is nowhere near me. Anyway Judge Clive was not happy and I non qualified. Tiffany just missed her JDX trial by 2.44 seconds. That's how long over time she was after getting a fault free round. At least she is getting close again after losing her confidence a bit after Keith went away for 4 days.