The team has turned out to be just one big extended family with all the benefits a family has to offer....without in-law problems! Many of us have children, all have spouses and most have additional dogs that are not members of the team. {side note......every one who has another dog also has trained that dog in obedience.....we will often bring the "other dog" for someone else to work if for some reason their own dog is unable to come}. We meet individually at the park to work our dogs together, join each other for dinner, travel to the shows together. We compete against each other in the conformation ring, cheer each other on in the obedience and agility rings and pick on each other relentlessly at Drill Team Practices. Get along? At this point I don't  think we could get along without each other.

What do we do?

  This has been a learn as you go experience. Our first challenge was to just learn to walk in a straight line. Sounds so simple......until you try it with 8 people who all have different length legs and 8 dogs that move at different speeds. Want to talk about your basic humbling experience! Our routines are works in progress, each practice or performance teaches us more about the abilities we have (or in some cases what we don't have) and each adds something new to our repertoire. Our basic routines are based on the standard obedience commands and from there we add the individual talents of both dogs and handlers.

Picture this......