Came home to a HELL of a surprise - Page 5

 
I took this the other day





















This was  him about 17 months old in virginia beach.

congradulations, was hoping you'd make high point!

 Thanks SitasMom.

Yellowrose- im waiting to be emailed pictures and video of the trial.

Congratulations!  You should be proud.

Jen

 Thanks Jen. I am very proud. I almost passed out when he said the scores for obedience and protection. I would have passed out in tracking except the judge gave him an 81 instead of the 94 or 95 that everyone that was watching what i watched saw. I was a little upset because i dont know why he took so many points. I could understand if he was grading at sch3 level for a sch1 track then it would make sense but besides that when i got off that track i was ecstatic until the judge said his score. Someone actually said what! out loud. lol

Who was the Judge for this Trial?

YR

 Ernest Hintz. He was very nice and all but I just did not agree with some things.

            smartguy.........Congrats!!!  and you had MY alltime fav judge!  We had Ernest about 14-15 years ago at our trial & we all just loved him.  But....you are not going to agree w/ everyone all the time, right?  :)  I am really happy for you and your pup!  Hope you bought him a nice big steak for his reward <G>

             Yellowrose.......We have portable kennels here sold thru the feed store that are very heavy gauge....maybe not quite 9 gauge but strong enuf that I am considering one for my very determined male pit who eats his way out of everything.  They are made by a company called Priefert.....sold thru Tractor Supply Company.    I used 9 gauge for my two mountain lions and then used those kennels for our more destructive dogs after the lions left.  

                    DK9

 Thank you

DK9:  The ones Tractor supply sells here in Tyler are junk...the way they are made , my gsd pull the gauged wire right off the bottoms and out they come....my son took bar from a fence company   rewired the bottom and then put a bar thru the bottom on all my fencing...I have akc kennels, Home Depo kennels, Lowes kennels, and two tractor supply kennels...

The way they are put together is horrible...not the construction we use to get and the gauge of wire is very undesireable...

I want steel bar cages but cannot afford them until  Sams came up with the 10 x 10 cages but they are out in Tyler...sold out...and not online..

I put in a call to the ast mgr of Sam's Club here to ask him how do we find more of those coated steel made kennels...

I have 6 males and when I work dogs or any kinds of activities the level of my males gives my cages a work out..they love to get out if can...and when a female is in heat.....it is a must to hide the female..in the nursery so no male can find her..

That keeps most of them from exercising the right to tear out of a cyclone gauged wire kennel...my kennels are all covered with the  bars of cattle wire from Tractor supply cut and tack welded on top all the way across and on concrete poured floor with a covered building canopy with lighting and fans.....under the trees   . I have 4 auxillary kennels which were the two akc named kennels I purchased at Tractor supply three  yrs ago and Bear pulled door apart before we got kennel number 2 up and finished....no support and poorly put together and the gauge was horribly   thin.....never again...my females and males want out too bad and if they find out they can pulll apart   out they come....I have 4 old  old kennels   from 20 yrs ago that are true  9 gauge fencing and put together with guide wires etc..My son designed new  handles and closures that are kid proof and dog proof and cannot be opened by any dog and have a hole to put a lock thru....he ought to patent it but has not...he used hinges and all pieces of what you use on the kennel to design the locking devices.....and welded tubes cut to fit into the pieces to put back on the door and side bar....really not easy to explain...I am sure he could tell you in mens language...\\\ After my son redid everything  no males or females have ever gotten out unless I mistakenly leave a closure undone.....

Oops  gave away my bad habit....

YR    the kennels here in tyler are not preifert.