Izza gets 2 CATs

Izza and I spent the day with our friends Jordan, Krash & Kester over in Kent, WA today. We were checking out a new AKC title: C.A.T. (Coursing Ability Title). It's like Lure Coursing (which is an event they do with sight hounds), but easier. The course for dogs the size of Dalmatians is 600' long and the dog just has to show interest in following the lure and must finish the course within 2 minutes. We did two runs, a few hours apart. Izza's first run took her 1.01 minutes, but her second run (which is what this video is of) took her 55 seconds. She received two of her three "legs" (a leg is a qualifying run), she needs to get her title. We had lots of fun and she got to burn off some energy!

Obedience & Rally workshop

Today Izza and I spent the day at the Walla Walla Kennel Club Obedience and Rally workshop. I learned several great new training tips that will help improve our future obedience endeavors. It was a great turn out and everyone seemed to have fun. The above photo was Izza and I "center stage" practicing a technique the instructor was teaching us.

Our Keno Girl Izza

 I was SOOOO EXCITED to open my e-mail today and see these photos of Izza. These are the posters that are going to print today. Oregon Lottery said they will be putting these posters everywhere across the whole state - anywhere lotto is sold. So look for Izza "in a store near you" sometime in the near future (I have no idea how long it will be before they are actually in stores).

SHOW ME THE MONEY!

Once again I sent Izza's photos to a dog talent agent, this time 6 dog's photos were sent to the Oregon Lottery and they chose Izza! At 10:30am we started our photo shoot in Portland, OR and didn't finish until 4:30pm. It was a long hard day, but it was fun too! Fun because Izza did a great job. She didn't mind all the flashes going off and sounding like gun shots, having to be manipulated by me as well as strangers, the having to be 'on' for hours and hours or being asked to do things no normal dog would ever do! She was an amazing trooper and by this summer will be on posters and billboards across the entire state of Oregon. These photos are a couple that the talent agent took on my camera while the photographer was reviewing photos that he had taken. The photo above is of us on the $3,000 of real money they had Izza rolling around in.