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A view of the world from the eyes of a border collie...

Reporting in from recent Sledding, Skijoring, Agility Events and Flyball Tournaments around the area we welcome "Piper" and her handler extraordinaire, Tiffany Salmon.

Introduction:

Name: Piper: a.k.a. Pippeaire, Pup
Official Handle: Piper (how original!)
Current titles: CCGC (Canadian Canine Good Citizen), FD (Flyball dog), FDX (Flyball Dog Excellent), FDCh (Flyball Dog Champion) and ADC (Agility Dog of Canada)
Breed: Border Collie
Date of Birth: October 20, 1999
Location: Shepperd's Crook Farm, Lorenville ON
Favorite toys: Frisbee. Frisbee. Frisbee. Tennis balls are good too. Anything that squeaks.
Favorite activities: Playing frisbee, going to the dog park and playing frisbee & riding in the car.
Activities that her parents make her do: Flyball, agility, skijoring & dog sledding.
Siblings: Kramer & Bailey, her siamese cat brothers.
Dislikes: The vacuum cleaner. Her older brother Bailey who likes to "slap" her nose and chomp on her tail.

Adventures in Sledding, Skijoring, Agility, Flyball, Frisbee and much much more with Piper reporting in from:  SharkFebst Flyball Tournament February 23rd and 24th, 2002.

Hi Nancy,

On the weekend I got to go to a flyball tournament in Richmond Hill called SharkFebst.  It's been so long since mom's taken me to a flyball tournament, something about flyball being a 'summer sport'.  Anyway, we loaded up the truck with 5 border collies and an Affenpincher and headed off.  This year at SharkFebst there were 94 teams entered and 5 of them were Afterburners teams.  We had Stealth in division 4, Falcons in division 8, Tiger Sharks in division 9, and our two multi breed teams, Tom Cats & Avro Arrows, in multi division 4. 

A multi breed team must consist of at least 4 different breeds, with mixes being considered 1 breed.  A dog can run on a multi & a regular team at any given tournament but the same dog cannot run on two regular or two multi breed teams.

I ran on the Stealth team with Rem, Blur and our height dog Gage.  We also had Scotty the Affenpincher as our back-up height dog.  We ran really well and managed to bring home a big first place ribbon and set an Afterburners record of 19.47 sec.  Our little Scotty finally managed to get his Flyball Dog (FD) title--it's taken him numerous tournaments, but he finally did it.  He's now retiring from flyball and concentrating on agility.  Our Tiger Sharks team raced really well and easily claimed 1st place in their division too.  My other team, the Avro Arrows, made up of Cooper, the English Springer Spaniel, Zonker, the yellow lab and Gage, the Lasa-Poo, did okay and managed to finish in 4th out of 8 teams. 

So all in all it was a fun weekend.  Mom says I get to go to Michigan to play some more flyball soon.  I can't wait!

Ruff!
Piper

Who are these 2 teams from the Afterburners Flyball Club in Ottawa, Ontario -- Formula 1 and Pit Crew? Find out here.

What is Flyball? Find out more about this interesting sport by clicking here.

A view of the world from the eyes of a border collie continues on the next page...

(Copyright, 2005. Used with permission from Tiffany Salmon.)

Keep an eye open for different topics of interest such as: profiles on people and their dogs, to name but a few interesting topics...Also, have a look at what Rita Susanto and "Justin" have been up to these days.

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