Auggie was born November 15th, 2005, the result of breeding for wonderful all-around shelties, capable of everything and anything under the sun including herding, agility, and confirmation. When I first met with his breeder, she asked me if I was interested in agility. "Sort of," I said, "but probably just for fun, in the backyard and stuff." If only I knew what a joke that was! Auggie got his start in serious agility work a little late, when he was just over a year old, because I was working days and attending night classes working towards my BA for much of his first year, leaving little time to learn any kind of new activity. But once we got into agility classes and started to play, I was hooked.
Since then, we've played in many agility trials, traveled and made our home in hotels many long weekends, and racked up a large stack of ribbons that I have no place to put. We've also made appearances in rally-o trials and went 3/3 working towards our RN, made a hilarious appearance in an obedience trial and still have pipe dreams of going back to be the comedy act again, have let Auggie push sheep in a circle, and hope to eventually get into herding trials as well as started in tracking.
