Olivia earned her first title over the weekend, making it a huge weekend for her! We were both at the Barn Hunt trial, and had a lot of success! We are super proud of Olivia’s work and how much fun she has doing it. After entering three Novice runs and qualifying in all three, she earned her RATN Title. Her official name is now Ethos Loving The Northland RATN.
This is the third course she ran, the one where she earned her third Q, and her RATN Title. In Novice, to title the dog has to go through the tunnel, climb (all four paws up on a bale), and find the rat. There are three rat tubes buried in the course, one is empty, one has litter, and one has the rat. We have the basic rules on this post from when we first tried Barn Hunt.
On Saturday, Olivia’s first run was tough. She forgot her normal alert on the rat, but Mom waited long enough to be able to tell which one Olivia thought had the rat, and they got the Q. In her second run, she got fourth place. On Sunday morning, Olivia earned second place. She seems to be catching on to how the game works, and what to do in a trial. We are super happy with her, especially since she is just six and a half months old! A dog has to be at least six months old to enter a competition.
I also ran four times in Masters. My issue is the tunnel. I simply don’t want to waste precious hunting time going through a stupid tunnel. If tunneling wasn’t required I would have had my Masters Title a long time ago! Nevertheless, on Friday, I got a Q, and first place, by doing the tunnel, and finding just one rat in the course. In Masters, there are one to five rats, but Mom doesn’t know how many are in our course. Mom and I have to work together to determine when I have found all the rats. Now I have two legs towards my Masters title. Hopefully there will soon be a Masters tunnel at school so I can practice before our next trial in a couple months.
All in all, it was a great weekend, especially with Olivia earning her very first title! Last night she also got the news that she is off the alternate list for her tracking test and is officially in! Sunday was one awesome day for Olivia!
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Hooray for you BOTH!! Absolutely PAWSOME! XOXO, Sparkle
Thank you. We are super proud of little Olivia.
Wow!!
Olivia is pretty talented.
You girls rock! Congratulations to both of you!
Thank you. Mom calls us her sports team.
Congratulations! You girls are amazing and talented, and of course cute, cute, cute!
Thank you. We hear that we are cute a lot, but it doesn’t bother us being cute.
You both sure had a terrific weekend and congrats to sweet Olivia on that first title!
We are pretty impressed with the little one so far.
Way to go, Olivia. You rock. You’re going to be a super star. I just know it.
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We think she is going to be a sports rock star.
WOW!!!! Stunning job, Olivia!!! Rat on!!!
Rats are done for now, it is on to a tracking test next weekend and then scent work the following weekend for Olivia.
the first of MANY I am sure!!! Congratulations!!
We are hoping that is the case.
Congratulations!!! Great work!! How exciting!!!! Hip hip hooray!!!
It is pretty exciting. For a youngster, she can work really well.
What an awesome weekend! You go, girls!
Thank you. It was a great weekend for both of us and Mom too.
What a great weekend, huge congrats young lady.
Thank you. Olivia is doing so well for her age.
We are all so proud of you! Keep up the amazing work.
She’s an amazing sports dog so far. We hope it will continue as she grows up.
Wow, that’s pawsome! Way to go Olivia. 🏆
She is a little sports machine right now.
Oh my gosh! That’s such an accomplishment! Yay!
She is amazing at what she can do at her age, and she has so much fun doing it too.
Congratulation, Olivia! It sounds like you love what you do.
She loves all her sports and she is good at them too.
Congratulations Olivia, you are really amazing at these nose work hunts. Only 6 months and you have a long attention span for doing the work. Hope you keep progressing and enjoying it as you get older.
Mom just wants her to get experience and have fun for now. Titles are great, but we want her to be having fun learning all about her sports and so far that is what she does.
Yes having fun is always important a motovator