Winter had a sleepover last night at the house of her daughter, Autumn, so she could head off today for the Geelong Obedience Dog Club’s sprint dog trial. After a long drive and some great sprinting through wet grass, both girls were awarded their second Sprint Dog Qualifying Certificates and a personal best time for them both!
Both girls are absolutely loving Sprint Dog, being allowed to run as fast as they can in pursuit of a lure. It’s also wonderful seeing the bond that Winter has with Autumn, happily wrestling with her and snuggling together on the couch.
As this sport is taking off across Australia, demand exceeds capacity and so for now the entries are capped by owner. So, we elected to let Winter go first as she's the oldest, and it was easy to have her and Autumn compete together. Anarchy will need to wait her turn.

Our first Lapphund, Mischa (Armahani Bloodstone Bilaidit) hit Fifteen and a HALF during the week. Once you get to fifteen, all your milestones get celebrated, so we took her out for a walk at the local community garden with her favourite adopted daughters, Winter and Autumn, and then to the pub for lunch with some of her favourite humans.
Our old lady was very tired by the end of all her walking and treat-chewing, but after a good nap she was back to barking at possums that night.
Mischa is still doing great, loving her retirement out on the farm with Autumn. We love her madly.

Yesterday we made the trip to KCC for the Golden Retriever clubs Sprint Dog trial for Winter, Anarchy and Autumn!
All three girls had a great time, completing both runs and getting their first points towards their Sprint Dog title.

Winter was our fastest of the day, with an average time of 11.9 seconds and a Speed of 30.25km/h
Autumn has probably found her calling with this sport, with an average time of 12.05 and a speed of 29km/h
Anarchy will no doubt find her feet in future trials with an average time of 13.56 seconds and a Speed of 26.55km/h

Sprint Dog, known as FastCat in the US, is a new sport in Australia, and involves the dog chasing a lure (usually a plastic bag) in a 100m straight dash. A few of our Caleebra Lappies have already done fantastic in Canberra, and with Winter already having a title in lure coursing, we knew she'd be a given. Autumn had missed out on the previous trial as she was in season, but she'd had a practice run before the day so we knew she'd also chase the bag. Anarchy was the surprise. She wasn't quite sure what was going on, and probably didn't really find the bag all that exciting, given her history of hunting and herding. But she was happy to run fast and i'll be excited to see how well the girls go as they continue trialing!

Anarchy and Winter were post whelp/post phantom naked with crazily short coats but here's a photo of Autumn making a fast dash down the straight looking for Alice and trying to gain on that bag.

13 March 2023
Anarchy - Ch. Caleebra Summer Sweetheart (AI) - had a lovely 3rd Best in Group win today. Love her so much. She's on fire and loving every minute of it.

Expertly handled by Robyn Sharp

Video of the group.

https://youtu.be/oz1jGG8phPY

Riley - Caleebra Heartbreaker (AI) was awarded Runner Up Best of Breed behind Anarchy at this show too. She had another great weekend and I love seeing her showing off everything she's learning. Congratulations Mik N Disa .

4 March 2023 - Anarchy competed at the Invitation Only event: Dogs Victoria Night of Nights.

My baby girl Anarchy - Ch. Caleebra Summer Sweetheart (AI) - didn't put a foot wrong tonight, representing at Dogs Victoria's Night of Nights' Top Dog competition. It was quite a different format and she nailed it. I couldn't be prouder.

Expertly handled by Robyn Sharp , looking classy and elegant in a gorgeous new dress, You'll always have my eternal gratitude.

After the epic personal shit storm of the last 2 weeks I'm so proud of Anarchy's resilience to work so flawlessly tonight.

And of course I'm so profoundly humbled and appreciative of my Lappie and dog world family for their unwavering support. Thank you.

She was up against a beautiful Azawakh, who had previously been awarded BEST IN SHOW  by 2 of the 3 judges in the panel, so she was definitely up against it, but just to be there was a great honour and i'm so grateful to my special girl and my friends.