Rust Belt American As Apple Pie RATO
Ambrosia is from our last Rockie x Payson litter and is Dany's full sister; although the two are very different dogs. Where Dany is the bubbly social butterfly that adores meeting new people, Ambrosia takes her time to say hello and is happy to play disc with you. Ambrosia is the most cunning and intuitive of my MAS, she is infamous for getting all the dogs to get excited and run in the pasture while she quitely slips back to the house to filtch their bones that she was wanting and then she will stash them in places she remembers.
Ambrosia competes in Disc, Conformation, and Barn Hunt; she loves to swim so we are working on her doing dock diving once we can get her jumping off the dock. When Ambrosia is learning something new, she commonly gets the new task almost immediately and then is going to test out almost every single option EXCEPT the new task she just learned for 10x before agreeing that yes, you did want her to do what you just trained her to do, after that she is solid on her new skill. She is food motivated and toy motivated, and often has me laughing when we are training with her testing the boundaries of what I am asking for.
Ambrosia competes in Disc, Conformation, and Barn Hunt; she loves to swim so we are working on her doing dock diving once we can get her jumping off the dock. When Ambrosia is learning something new, she commonly gets the new task almost immediately and then is going to test out almost every single option EXCEPT the new task she just learned for 10x before agreeing that yes, you did want her to do what you just trained her to do, after that she is solid on her new skill. She is food motivated and toy motivated, and often has me laughing when we are training with her testing the boundaries of what I am asking for.
Disc Dog
Ambrosia is a wonderful disc partner - very quick footed in running down the discs. She has qualified for UPDIF in 2019 & 2020. Her favorite disc games involve distance. She is not as stylish as Dany about catching discs in the air but she is very consistent, when she loses sight of the disc she does a fast spin to look for it. Amrbosia is a very quick little dog, her strength is in running a disc down to its furthest point before catching it.
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Ambrosia being sassy with the disc and teasing the other dogs
Up Dog Challenge
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Click here to visit Ambrosia's Up Dog Page
Throw & Go Level 1: 100.00 Throw & Go Level 2: 69.00 Sharp Shooter UP, Golden Receiver, Super High Roller UP, Bronze UP Four Way Play: 21.00 Single Quad, High Roller Time Warp Level 1: 87.00 High Roller, Tardis Far Out: 80.00 |
Dock Diving
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Ambrosia is training for Dock Diving and hopefully will start jumping in 2020, she is jumping wonderfully off the ramp and will swim the length of the pool and back racing Lily for the ball.
Ambrosia has started taking Dock Diving lessons at TNT in Midland; she is jumping off the training docks very well and we are working on getting her to jump off the official dock - nearly there! |
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Barn Hunt
Ambrosia is doing wonderful in her Barn Hunt lessons and finds the rat very quickly. She is entering her first competition in June 2019. She loves this sport and catches the scent of the rat right away.
August 31st & September 1st 2019 Ambrosia earned High in Class and 1st place in Barn Hunt Novice A and her Barn Hunt Novice title!
July 12, 2020 Ambrosia took High in Class and 1st place and completed her last leg towards her Barn Hunt Open title RATO!
Ambrosia won High in Class in Barn Hunt Open at Michigan Barn Hunt Club October 2019. Thank you Cathy Kirbach-Ferry Photography for capturing this photo of her jumping the straw bale.
Conformation
Ambrosia has taken Reserve Winners Bitch under three judges at under 18 months old, however she really does not enjoy conformation. I may try her in the ring a few more times when she is a bit older, but for right now there are other sports that she enjoys quite a bit and I don't feel the need to force it - she does not like being asked to stack or posed, she will do it but she doesn't have her natural spark when I ask her to.
Ambrosia waiting for a disc to be thrown
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Health Testing
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AKC: DN53433506
Height: 15" Natural Bob Tail, Docked Bite: Scissor Embark Genetic Testing: PRA: N/m MDR1: n/n CEA: N/N CMR: N/N HSF4: N/N HUU: N/N NCL: N/N NCL6: N/N COI by Genetic Test: 4% - high genetic diversity |
Ambrosia's OFA Webpage
Hips: Excellent Elbows: Normal Patella: Normal Cardiac: Normal Thyroid: Normal BAER: Normal CAER: Normal (January 10, 2023) |