Rocky was one of the fastest Belgian sheepdogs in the country at the peak of his career. He and Joan competed in AKC National Agility Championships and the 2009 and 2010 AKC Agility Invitationals. Rocky finally retired in 2011. All those thousands of A-frame contacts and weave poles took there toll and Rocky had back surgery last year. Since then, Joan has been keeping Rocky fit through a program of regular exercise, manual stretches almost every night, and frequent runs over short sequences of low jumps. Rocky still has the spirit and drive of a top agility dog! This weekend Joan entered Rocky in a local fun match. You can still see the old guy still has it!
And a brag about Joan’s new partner, Knife. This weekend at the Sheltie AKC trial, Knife and Joan Q’ed 5 for 6, earned his first triple Q, and won 5 first places in the 26″ class. Sorry, no videos from the weekend.