Smack-Dab's Friends

At Smack-Dab's Obedience Training, Inc. we are very proud of our students' success and the accomplishments of all the exhibitors that compete (and have fun) at our agility and obedience events. This page is dedicated to the success of our Smack-Dab's Friends!

Koola showed in Veterans at the Chicagoland Shetland Sheepdog Specialty February 2^ND and 3^RD. He earned a 196 and first place the first day. He earned a 196.5 and first place the second day.

Kamba showed in Open B at the Chicagoland Shetland Sheepdog Specialty. He earned a 194 and second place the first day. He got a 195 and won a runoff for second place the second day.

Koola and Kamba are owned by Lynn Weis.

At Smack-Dab’s obedience trial on 12/15/07 Koola came out of retirement to show in Novice C. He earned a 198.50 and a second place. He earned a 199.50 and a second place. Kamba showed in Open B. He earned a 198.50 and lost the runoff for first place. Koola and Kamba are owned by Lynn Weis.

In 2007 Kamba earned a UKC CD and CDX. He earned an AKC CD and CDX. He placed every time. Kamba earned his UKC CDX when Lynn had her arm in a cast and was throwing left-handed.

On July 22, 2007, Joey, the brindle dachshund,received his APDT ARCHX title at the Ambor Nationals in Crystal Lake! And, on July 28, 2007, Joey earned his UKC UACH-X at the Windy City Trial in

Schiller Park!! This makes 29 titles and four Championship titles for Joey in various venues!! Go JOEY! Joey just turned four years old! Other photos and information can be seen at: http://www.nancyfrankiejoey.com/xChampion.html

At Smack-Dab's UKC Agility Trials Dec. 30th and 31st, Lindy Korner's Schipperke, Lance, became UAGI Chatelet's Wild Ride, with scores of 198, 198 and 199. This is both Lance's and Lindy's first ever agility title!! Big congratulations to both!

Koola, owned by Lynn Weis, retired at the Smack-Dab trial, Saturday, December 16TH. He got a 193.50 and second place in Open. I got a 195.50 and third place in Open.

Koola had earned an AKC UDX and a UOTCH during his career.

Kamba, owned by Lynn Weis, showed for the first time at the Smack-Dab trial Saturday, December 16TH.

His first leg was a 198 and a second place.

His second leg was a 199 and a first place.

He won the runoff for HIT! Wow - what a way to start an obedience career! Congratulations!

On Sept 16th at the Smack-Dabs UKC Agility Trial, Shamrock Acres Casey Sue earned her UAGII title. Congratulations!

On the weekend of September 9th and 10th, a group of our Rally students went out and competed in an APDT trial. Some of them competed for the first time such as

Jan and Lucy who earned their first Level One leg with a BLUE ribbon AND

Diane and Aussie who earned their first two Level One legs and BLUE ribbons in both!

Sue and Casey earned their Level One TITLE - Congratulations to them!!!!!

Marty and Molly earned their first Level Two legs - WOW and Double WOW

Julie and Keri earned their Level Three TITLE that day.

Congratulations to everyone. We're proud of all of you !!!!!!!

Big congrats to Wesley McDuff, the West Highland Terrier! The little guy came back from knee surgery over a year ago and kept working out and running hard (for him!). At the Glen Carbon, IL AKC Agility trial at the end of July he achieved BOTH his MXP and his MJP. Big thanks to Deb Nezgoda - Wes' teacher who kept us focused on having 'fun' and not on how well we ran. The 'fun' sure paid off!!!

One of our Smack-Dab's friends, brindle dachshund JOEY and his mom, Anna Marie Haden, are 'regulars' at our UKC Agility Trials. Well, at the Windy City UKC Agility trial at the end of July, JOEY earned his final 20 points for his UACH title! Big congrats and welcome to AG3! Also, the previous weekend, Joey earned his APDT Rally Championship title as well. His photos/information can be seen at http://www.koolpages.com/nancyfrankie/xChampion.html

On July 9th at the Dekalb Trial- Shamrock Acres Molly Sue II recieved a fourth place and her Rally Novice Title with a score of 94. Molly's younger sister, Shamrock Acres Casey Sue received a third place with a score of 95. Casey also received her Rally Novice title as well. A special thank you to our instructor, Julie Dorsey in helping us obtain our Rally title.

6/16/06 - Fiona (Pembroke Corgi) was awarded third place at the UKC Premier All Star competition for AGII Division I. She had just earned her UACHX at the Smack Dab's trial the previous weekend.

We recently completed our Canine Good Citizen and Therapy Dog class. We had 9 teams in training and 8 of them took the test. ALL 8 passed and we are proud to announce the names of our new CGC-TDI dogs.......Maggie, Sinjin, Monty, Pounce, Bo, Dakota, Sasha, and Jackpot!!! I'm sure they will all bring joy and comfort to everyone they visit. Congratulations to all!!!!!

Helen Baloun's Doberman Phoenix Smack-Dab's Here We Go Again CGC, RN earned his Novice Rally title at McCormick Place:

Feb 24 - First leg

Feb 25 - 2nd leg

Feb 26 - 3rd leg

On February 11/12 at United Piece of Cake Dog Club trials in Odell, IL Pacey managed to obtain 50 points towards the UACH. He got 4: 200 in AG1, 1: 200 in AGII and a 193 in AGII.

On February 18/19 at the Paw Power Blues UKC trials in Cedar Lake, IN Pacey picked up 37 points towards his UACH. We managed to obtain 2: 200 in AGI and 1:200, 1:199, 1:196 in AGII

Keri and Julie Dorsey had a super weekend in Iowa at the AKC Agility and Obedience trials February 4th and 5th. Q'd in 4 out of 4 trials. On Saturday, she earned her Rally Advanced title and took 3rd place, then ran Ex. JWW and took 1st place. On Sunday, she earned her first Rally Excellent leg with a 1st place, then ran Ex. JWW and took 1st place.

I'd say the luck was on our side.

Marie Starsiak's brittanys Ch. Dogwood Hollow C Me Fly RN CD (Delta) earned her CD title at the Scott County K.C. Dog Show Feb. 4, 2006 with a first place finish score of 194.5!

AND

Ch. Fiodi's Sir Windy Rock JH CD OA OAJ RA (Rocky) earned his Rally Advanced title at the Scott County K.C. Dog Show on Feb. 4, 2006.

UUD Bryshire Binta-Abe Koola UDX owned by Lynn Weis showed at Smack-Dab's UKC obedience trial December 17, 2005. He won four first places, 2 High Combined, and a High-in-Trial.

The next day he showed at Flying Paws. He won 2 fourth places and one third place.

Koola is now 14 points away from his UKC obedience championship.

On December 17th, 2005, Toby (UUD Empyreal Thunderbolt, UD, CGC), owned by Sue Chiostri, earned his UKC utility title at Smack-Dab's UKC obedience trial, and he did it in only five shows!!!

At the UKC trial on 1/1, Jill the black Lab (UAGII Tecumseh's Thanks a Jillion CD NA NAJ) showed her handler, Debbie Hegg, that she had really missed doing UKC agility! Jill got 24 points toward her UACH, with a 1st and two 2nds, and took High in Trial for Trial 1. Jill had a busy agility year, getting her UAGII, NA, and NAJ titles in 2005. We're hoping for another good year this year! Here's a picture of her wearing the beautiful ribbons given by Smack-Dab's.

FROM ALL OF US.........TO ALL OF US.......Thanks for making our NYE Smack-Dabs UKC Agility Trial the best ever! Our Indiana friend, Michelle "Labradors" Ricelli, offered to bring in a tray of her famous baked pasta and that got the party rolling. The word got out and so many people offered to bring in goodies to make the day a real celebration. Lots of our students brought food AND several people who just come to our trials also brought food. It was incredible! I don't know the names of all the people who brought something because by the time I arrived in the morning, there was already about half the table space filled with trays of goodies! So a BIG Thank You to everyone who was so generous and thoughtful!!!

We shared all the food with everyone who was at the trial. Of course everyone raved about the pasta.....so Thanks to Michelle for starting the party and a BIG thank you to all the people who enter our trials. We hope to see lots of you in the New Year and we hope you get lots of All Star Points this year.....Happy New Year Everyone!!!!!

P.S. Anyone interested in the recipe for that fabulous Cheesecake can email us. Pam (Fiona's mom) was nice enough to share it with us!

Corgi Fiona knows how to start a New Year well!!! Along with her handler Pam, Fiona acheived her UACH agility title at the Smack-Dabs UKC Agility Trial on January 1, 2006! Big Congratulations to Pam and Fiona!!!

Casey received her first agility title (UAG1) on Saturday, 9/26 at the Smack-Dabs trial. She received two first places with scores of 196 and 198, and a second place with a score of 191. We hope this is the start of many more agility titles to come. Check out the photo of UAG1 Shamrock Acres Casey Sue CGC, TDI

Helen's Doberman Phoenix (Smack-Dab's Here We Go Again CGC) earned his CGC title on 11/22/05 in LTDTC.

On Saturday, November 19, Collie Clyde (with handler Melinda Wolfe) earned his first AKC title in Standard with a perfect score of 100 and taking second place. He also earned a second leg in JWW with another perfect score of 100! Congrats to Clyde on earning his NA title!!! Needless to say, the pair is very happy!

On 11/19, Julie Dorsey's Doberman KERI got her APDT Rally Level Two title in the first trial in Schiller Park with a 197 AND in the second trial they moved us up to the B class. She got a 203 and 1st place. Keri was "ON".......she's so pretty to watch when she's in that mode! The 3 extra points were awarded for having a happy dog!!!! We love Rally!!!

Two of our Rally students entered their first AKC Rally Trial on 11/5 in Wheaton. And they both qualified! Congratulations to Sue and Marty Kometz and their two adorable, happy Labradors, Casey and Molly. Molly took 3rd place and Casey was tied for 4th.

Way to Go!!!

Clyde and Melinda were a dynamic duo at the 9/7 trial at Smack-Dabs. They walked away with a 2nd place score of 199, and then a 200 for first place!

Sheltie Pacey and Maribel Lopez had a great couple of runs at the Wisconsin Rapids Kennel Club AKC Trial in Ameherst Junction. In 3 days, he came home with three qualifying legs, a couple of placements AND his AJP TITLE! Great job!

Smack-Dab's Cash N Keri got her AKC Rally Novice (RN) title on 9/25! Out of 58 dogs in Nov B, only 3 got perfect scores and Keri was one of them! Keri and handler Julie placed and even got a cash prize! So Keri is now formally known as:

U CDX, U ACHX Smack Dab's Cash N Keri CDX, RN, OA, MXJ, OJP, TT, CGC, TDI-AOV R-1

WOW! Congrats, Keri!!!

There's still more... Ms. Keri earned her AJP (Excellent Jumpers Preferred) title on 10/3 and took 1st place!

Wesley the West Highland Terrier got his AKC AXP title on 9/18 at the Fox Valley agility trial in Plano. Way to go Wesley!