Today I’m looking back at sports titles earned by Team Orange this past year when I was five. I’ve reached the peak of all my sports so titles are not as frequent. Competitions are fewer and much more difficult but still I got a few new good ones!
My first new title was my L3I, Level 3 Vehicle Element Title on June 1st. I had to complete four vehicle searches each with an unknown number of hides. I did it and I also placed second out of all the competitors. As with almost all my nose work titles I am the first and only GBGV to earn this title.
Looking back through photos we found this one which is one of our favorite sports photos of the year. I found the hide under this old tractor. Often when I find a hide I do tip my head and look at my focused eye.
August 30th, I earned my FCAT3 Title. I’m the first GBGV to earn this title. After earning my FCAT3, I officially retired from FastCAT. The five years I ran I was the number one GBGV each year and also placed first at the Invitational I attended in 2021.
To earn this title I ran eighty four runs with a total of 2002.17 points. In 2020 I was still under eighteen inches and received a 1.5 handicap but in 2021, I lost that and only got my mph for each run. The above photo is of all my title ribbons and the flats are from my eighty four qualifying runs.
The biggest title of my career, and the Team Orange goal is my Summit Title which I earned on October 12th. It was a hard trial and right after we lost Madison but she was looking out of us and we did it! Mom and I are so proud to have earned our first Summit Title with all our friends around us too as the trial was local.
Not only did I earn the title, I took third place overall we earned a first and a second place in two of our eight searches. I was the only dog to find all the hides in the search where we earned first place.
My sports titles earned ends with my L2C, Level 2 Container Title. I earned this one at the Firehouse Museum in Michigan on December 8th. I also places first out of all the competitors in those four container searches.
What a special year it was for titles. I’m thankful for each of my titles as we work hard for all of them. Let’s see what I can do now when I turn six! Team Orange is ready for action!
We are joining our friends at Living Laughing and Barking in Our Backyard is for their Nature Friday blog hop.
You are a SuperStar, Olivia, and we are so proud of you!
I’m Mom’s dream hound and I hope to keep excelling at my work and earn some new titles soon this year.
Team Orange bravo bravo bravo. You and Mom are a dream team.
Thank you for posing with the red tractor and red barn…
Hugs cecilia
Red is a perfect farm color. Mom and I have a very special bond and we both love it. Can’t wait to trial with her next weekend.
We know you are going to do great things while you are six, Olivia!
xoxo,
Rosy & Sunny
Mom and I have a couple goals in mind, hopefully we will achieve them but even if not, I’m sure we are going to have a blast.
Great work, Team Orange!
Thank you.
We are very proud of Team Orange and I always look forward to your new wins!!!
Stay tuned, we have a lot of things coming up 🙂
You are going to have to build a separate big room for all you ribbons b
Mom loves having us surrounded by our accomplishments as it is motivational and makes us all happy. We have plans to make more space by combining some lower level titles/ribbons with the higher ones and there is a very small space of wall left on ones side of the office if it becomes necessary to use. She doesn’t believe in putting any awards away, even Emma has her ribbons still displayed.
Love your doggies ~ post and photos ~ Awesome Mom makes awesome prize winning doggies ~ Wow!
Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days ~
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Thank you. I’m a sports nut just like my mom and we love competing together.