Alisa came to us at 8 weeks old. She was born in Georgia. I was looking for a ridgeless puppy because I do not want to be involved with conformation shows.
As a ridgeless ridgeback Alisa is in title to compete in Agility, Rally, Obedience, herding, oval racing - NOTRA, straight racing – LGRA and Lure Coursing in singe stakes.
As a puppy Alisa was wild. We went through local obedience school to help us survive her teenagers months.
Then we tried Racing and did not succeed. Alisa was very afraid of the boxes. In straight and oval racing – dogs are starting from boxes – that is the rule. Alisa was popping up from the boxes terrified, looking for her owner and not for the lure. We tried a few times and stopped for a while.
To keep us busy we start agility – love it and hopefully will be there for a while.
Agility helps to raise Alisa’s confidence. In Spring 2008 we come back to Racing.
She has no problem with the boxes,competes with very experienced dogs at LGRA and NOTRA.
Highlights of 2009
Nothing major happens in 2009.
Alisa earns Excellent B JWW AKC Agility Title.
Scrod up her racing carrier with almost every run turn to be a fault.
She loves racing practice and hates to loose at Competition.
Our goal for 2010 is to stay healthy, have fun and play the Agility game as well as we can.
Highlights of 2008
We are proud to announce that Alisa took First place at Rhodesian ridgebacks National Specialty 2008 All – Breed Agility Trial in Gettysburg, PA on September 20, 2008.
She took a 1-st place at Novice A Standard Course. Standard Course Time was 67 sec Alisa's time was 42.42 secand 100% accuracy! During Summer 2008 Alisa earns both JWW and STD Novice Titles.
Being Novice A dog – gave us a lot of credit. We got all first places – for all our qualified runs.
Alisa is ranked 2008 Top 20 Ridgebacks in Agility!
Alisa gets in Top 10 NOTRA 2008
(National Oval Track Racing Association)
Top 20 LGRA 2008
(Large Gazehound Racing Association)
