Coursing Aptitude Test - who knew it could be this much fun!!

This weekend Laurie and I took Tommie, Hacker, Honor and Miley to some Coursing Aptitude Tests down in Hollister.  OMgosh, it was so much fun!  Everybody but Tommie excelled at it.  Tommie didn't want to go far enough from Mom (me) to get the job done - but she still had fun, just did it her way (so typical!)  The course is 600 yards long for larger dogs, 300 yards for small dogs.

Here's Hacker - chasing the white plastic "bunny" (plastic bags) that are pulled very quickly on a course of pulleys directed by a guy with a joystick.  It's a pretty cool system, they can speed the "bunnies" up and slow them down with the joystick.  The white things you see on the ground are the "bunnies" that the dogs are trying to catch.

 Hacker

Honor - boy can that girl Run!!!

Miley - Never took her eyes off the "bunnies".

 

There was a big variety of dogs from small Terriers and a Daschund all the way up to Weimaraners and Salukis.