Owned by Kelly McFaul-Solem (handler) & Randy Solem
I have been doing agility since 1994 -- I started with my first dog, Panda, who is a large lab/springer mix. I am still competing with her as well as my two puggies. We live in Minnesota where Agility is very seasonal and since we mainly show in NADAC, our season is basically May through September -- wish it was longer!! Gypsy is our first pug because my hubby convinced me that pugs were the breed for us -- he always says : "I was pugs, before pugs were "cool"!! I am eternally devoted to them and know that we will always have at least two in our household. Gypsy's claim to agility fame is that she was the first pug to compete in the NADAC National Championships and there was a story about it in PugTalk (Jan. 2001)!!! She had a blast -- she had some teeter issues at the show, but the crowd was really backing her up and cheering for her!! Gypsy prefers to jump 8", so we do not do a lot of AKC or USDAA. Although, she is not the fastest dog, she never ever gives up and is a real little trooper! Our trademark move is that I wind up her little tail while we are on the startline before we go :)
