Ruth and Cari
Ruth runs 2 dogs presently Cari a Pembroke Welsh Corgie at 8 inches and an Australian Shepard Ponto at 20 inches. Ruth started her agility showing watching her kids doing 4H.. Once they were out of 4H and moved onto other interests Ruth felt it was her turn to play agility. And play she did. With Cari the basic training had been done but the precision needed to be successful was not there. So a retraining program was implemented. Private lessons, late nights and lots of weekends were dedicated to retrain and refocus the dog as she had many bad agility habits. Contacts were something to ignore or jump over, running to the end of the teeter was just not needed. These were just a few of the things Ruth and Cari had to overcome. Time, practice and focus not only got them over them but turned them into a team to watch and fear if you were competing against them.. The team does not know slow. The result was a couple trips to the National Agility Championships and a National ranking for 8 inch dogs. The result is a title list which is much bigger than Cari's name and getting longer all the time. Cari is a Master Agility Champion and is 2 double Q's away from being a
MACH 2. The journey is not over yet so there will be more runs, more laurels and more titles.
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