Sweet River Studios

I signed River up for the scent league at Anything Goes for Dogs in Marysville. We had two trials in March and I'm pleased to say that River finally, finally got her level 2 Title. She's had Levels 1 and 3 but Level 2 remained elusive. On the second trial, I signed her up for 2 searches at Level 1 and 2 each. Usually, she's quite excited when she first goes in to search and alerts to the wrong box since she's more interested in just running around, so we get it wrong. But I'm happy to say that she seemed to focus much more quickly this time and she qualified in all 4 searches. These Q's at the levels she's already titled in now go towards her ACE in those levels. In order to get an ACE in Level 1, you need 10 Q's. This takes awhile since not many places are holding CWAGS scent trials in Columbus. River is also scheduled for the second scent league in April at Anything Goes as well. Next month is levels 3 and 4. Since we have no Q's at level 4, I...

River is my 4 year old (soon to be 5) German Shepard mix female dog. We are pretty active in the dog world. We take agility classes, scent work and barn hunting classes and on occasion, we take obedience classes. And 80% of the time, she's great around other dogs but she has some trouble with dogs that give her direct eye contact or have a certain look. She will lung to the end of the leash and bark like she wants to kill something and she seems to do this quite randomly. She'll interact with a certain dog or ignore them completely for a few weeks then at the 5th encounter she lungs and barks. So she's not horrible but if I can work with her to where she doesn't do this anymore or a lot less that would great. Some dogs are just genetically pre-disposed for certain behavior but I'm hoping to get rid of this behavior or at least mostly. So, I signed her up for a class at PosiDog in Hilliard, called Rowdy & Reactive. The class is held on Sunday's and is a rol...

I entered River in the first K9SD trial held at Anything Goes for Dogs in Marysville, Ohio on February 27. Novice level consists of a container search and an interior room search. The dog has 2 minutes to find the source of the scent. You need to qualify on 2 legs in order to title. There were over 20 dogs at the first trial and many got at least 1 Q and we had 5 dogs get their novice title. River was too excited her first search and didn't Q but she did well the remaining 3 searches. So we got 1 Q towards the novice title. A second trial will be held in May along with a practice intermediate search which consists of a vehicle search and outdoor search.