Showstars!

We had a lovely trip to hot Estonia over the weekend. More about it all and other activities in next writing.

Shanti is now Fi, Se, EE ch and C.I.B. (unconfirmed yet byt the FCI). Shanti did so well, being BOB for both days, earning cert and cacib. Further, on sunday we stayed for the groups, and he was BIG4. On both days the BOS was Shanti's fiancee Fayza, congratulations Saija and Fay. Saija was organising the whole trip so deep thanks to her, without her this trip wouldn't have come true!!!

Pre got his cert on sunday, so he will eventually be EE ch once he gets his certs from Finland :)











And please tell me how to make pics work on this, since I cant fit Pre's face nor alter the size of the photo, but by clicking on it, you will see the full picture!

Summer-Fun

Summer and a great heat-wave has arrived. We have spent most of our days at the summercottage, next to a lake. Boys love living there, so many activities, pure freedom and endless playing. Here are some pics from our days:

My handsome boys


Cottage-agi by 5-year old


Play!


Play-Play!


Play-Play-Play!


Play-Play-Play-Play!


Myself and Shanti


Pre kissing Aada


Aada and Shanti


Anniina and Preety


We are going to have exciting weeks ahead, in a week's time we will have kooikerhondje clubshow at Riihimäki. Both of my boys are attending. On the following day Shan will FINALLY get to try 3rd class agility (he has gained the access already over a year ago, but my bummered knee has restricted our competitions). Shanti's littlebrother Koda will attend too, and Koda's owner has generously promised to quide Shan through tracks. One of them will be kooikeragilitych.track, so exciting!

The weekend following our clubshow will be spent at Estonia, we will travel with Fido and Fayza-kooikers, and both of my boys will attend the shows. Other one is Int and other is Nat. So hopefully some certs available for us :) Directly after the Estonian trip we will have lovely visitors, Dina-kooiker from Tampere will come and stay for a few days with us. Together with Dina will come her family, my dear, darling friends. I can't wait! We are hopefully having some kooiker-walks, meetings and agility. Probably go to Koli for a hike too, among kooi-friends.

Today is the birthday for Preety's breeder Yvonne. Happy birthday Yvonne, love you!!! Kram och Puss!

Photodiary

Summer has boosted up our activities, and we have an active week behind. Last weekend we had the show and met Fayza and Fido:

Boys did some human-searching in the woods on Saturday. Dear friend Saija was the target, always getting lost in the woods!

Sending Pre to search


Pre ran bullet-straight and found Saija immediately


Shan being sent to the target


And after work is the time for play:
Shan greeting Fayza


Posing before playing (Shanti+Fay)


Free-running by Fay-Shan


Free-running by Pre-Fay


On sunday Pre attended the show and did nicely. Pre with his cacib and res-cert


I had to leave my boys behind and travel to north to work at Oulu for two days. I naturally contacted Monica, the breeder of Estaika's and asked if we can meet up. Monica showed me some lovely parts of Oulu by foot. After that we went at his dad's to play some cards (learned a top new cardgame), and finally drove at her place to pick up Gipi (GIJS V.'T HUIS TEN BILDT) and Misty (ESTAIKA'S MILLENIUM MIST)





While I was at Oulu, Annina had enjoyed our Obedience with the guidance of my friend Marja-Leena. (it was my turn to be the conducter of the training, luckily I got Marja-Leena to help me out!)

Boys got to run and swim (and pose) at the nearby forest:


And walked on the benches of lake, and met their friend Lysti on the way:


On Friday it was time for agility. Both boys did so well, I got some good instructions from our small team, how to improve distance-agi, since currently I still can't run at all.

Yesterday we met up Ella and Kaisa, went to the ruins and did some human searching and obedience. All of the dogs did well, Pre was again workaholic, did so well. Shan did also very eagerly and well. Ella did the thing for the first time and she is so promising in it! After that we did obedience (all following photographs by Kaisa Jalava):

Pre heeling (and staring at my hand - need to do something about that!!)


Ella and Pre taking their 2mins staying


Pre concentrating


After work, the gang got to run free, play with the sticks and together, and naturally pose, again :)


Thank you Kaisa and Ella for the lovely 3-hours acitivityboost!

Today Anniina will take care of the boys, and we will got to see local agilitycompetitions. I will work the 2nd class competitions. After that we might take a hike at the woods, that is near the place. Let's hope some nice, sunny weather! I hope I get to race with the boys soon, but currently my knee doesn't allow it. Luckily there is some hope in the form of Para-agility, that might develope further in a near future in Finland!

Cacib-boy Pre

Today was an exciting day for Pre and I. Or mainly for me. We have had a break of showing, since Pre has been a bit uneasy after one big dog attacked him on our trainingfield and left nasty bites and nastier memories. Pre is luckily rather tough boy, and he has been able to recover the situation, but it has clearly taken time, patience and lots of security. Now we are at the stage, that Pre can handle things so well, I am proud of my little boy. So I decided to enrol him to our INT show, which was on today.

Weather wasn't too good, water was pouring down. The ring was late, and I left Pre for a while in a car. Pre's friends were attending as well - his mate Pyry (Wishdecoy River Olivia) did very well, was the best male and the BOS. Congrats Mari and Pyry! Lovely Usva (Cavalriina's Uzva Uzzini) was the BOB, and Olga (Ixelle Vrouwe v.d. Tien Heuvelen) was the best of veterans. Preety did so well too, he got excellent and won the cacib. His critics was ok too, the judge thought he was a bit chubby, good head and expression, good body measures. Good topline and limbs. Good quality coat. Moves well but could be more cheerful.

Preety behaved so well, but his movement was at some point bit lazy. At Anniina's blog you can find many good pics of the show and Pre standing so well when the judge excamines him: www.kooikerit.vuodatus.net

We have had lovely visitors when Saija has paid a visit with Fido (Callitris Hunyadi Erminia) and Fayza (Royal Fayza v. Dyjadin). Lots of pics from that visit too - will upload them and update our activities later :)

trainingtime

Agility...obedience...showtraining. We have only a few off-duty-days on our weeks: Monday is off, and thrusday too. Usually we go for long hikes at the woods on those days, and so have we done now too. Just together, without any kooi-friends this time. Boys have practised a bit of human searching on those walks, but nothing more special. Agility goes on well, distance-agi works rather ok, which I am delighted. Hopefully, in the future, we will have some more serious para-agi training, currently we are only planning it. Hopefully will happen soon!

Obedience works so well with Pre. The thing we ought to practise most is the jump and the distracted-laying for 2 mins. Otherwise he seems to be perfectly ready for even competition. Yet we take it slow, I prefer him to be more over-ready than under-ready! Pre is more calm and focused at obedience, Shanti more alert, jumping and unfortunately also biting the fingers when treated with yummies. Oh dear - Anniina, please return soon from your trip and take over on Shanti's training!!!

Today was showtraining, I only took Pre along, since he is attending our Int show in a week's time. Shanti will stay as an audience this time. Pre did very well, even when the judge examined him throughly. Great, I'm so delighted. After that Pre got to play with Pyry (Wishdecoy River Olivia), and the boys played so well. How great is that, that Pre is over 2 years, and gets on so well with males, if they are friendly. After that both of my boys got to practise therapy-dog moves, since we met a lady with cp who sat in a big electronic wheelchair. She was out with her personal assistant. The disabled lady couldn't move or speak, but it didn't matter. Shan was cool and friendly, Pre thought he found his best friend, and wanted to go to the lady's lap. He is such a brave and self-confident boy :)

the wonderteam of Para-agilty

Summerday! Finally! It didn't seem so promising this morning, dull and grey, yet the sun broke out when we were hiking in the woods, and it suddenly became very warm indeed. I was in the woods with my stepsister, who we naturally asked to be the target for human-searchin. So she got the cover, went deep into the woods, and I let both of the boys search for her. Pre did absolultely great, speeded so fast to her, and this time Shan did very well too. Both were keen on working, so after a bit over hour's hike, we had a fast rest and headed to agility. Meanwhile Shanti's littlebrothers Koda and Fido had attended a dogshow. Koda(Callitris Hidalgo Erminia) did very well, and he became BOB. Gratulations Sanna and Koda! The BOS was Shanti cousin's daughter, the beautiful Tipi (Muskettikoiran Unilintu).

Agility went on well. We did a good track, with jumps, the tyre, A-frame, see-saw, the tunnel and slalom. Kati got to run so much, since she did most of the work with all three boys. I also did the track twice with Shan, and he was bit hot and tired, but managed to do distance-agi, with his para-owner. I even got Kati to record it (the latter, very tired version of the track), yet since I have a very new camera, I don't know how to upload it into the net :( Pre did a little bit with me, he managed to do the slalom and see-saw without problems. I am astonished! If this development continues, and my knee allows a bit of running-steps, we might get to compete sooner than I thought. With Shan, however, competing together is in the far future. I hope to get somebody to do a few tracks with him over the summer, since it would be great for him to test the 3rd class!

Some pics of the day:
Speedo-Shanti






Pretty-Preety:







Pretty-Pre but A bit of a lip


The victory and satisfaction:


Talent-Tico






Thank you Kati for all the help :)