Ooooh Zookie is already 11 months today :D - I made a new video about yesterdays training. It's really getting funny, she is already so fast but not really good in forward focus so it's extra exhausting for me :D.
We are on 30cm jump height but maybe I should raise it a bit because she is not jumping at all but just pulling her legs haha. Running contacts look really good now, we had our first session on a real, lowered dogwalk. The plan is to be on a normal dogwalk at 12 months, but we will see.
Endlich konnten wir mal wieder Running contacts trainieren, wir sind jetzt schon ziemlich hoch, was leider dazu führt dass wir nicht mehr auf unserm improvisierten Steg üben können. Also jetzt aus dem "Bleib", ich bin zufrieden :)
Finally, we could continue our running contacts training and we are pretty far. Unfortunately we can't use our small self-made dogwalk, so this video shows running the plank out of a stay. I'm pretty happy about the result :)
Und was ganz anderes, mein Leihaussie Jojo war wieder super am letzten Turnier. Ich freu mich besonders dass mein Training an Zonen und Slalom Wirkung zeigt: A-Open 1.Platz und Lk3 Lauf 2.Platz
And another thing, my rent-aussie Jojo was great at last competition, i'm really happy my training on her slalom and contacts is paying off :) so 1x1.place, 1x2.place
Zookie's now 10,5 months old - wow it seems like I got her yesterday :). Not many news to tell:
we work our way through the running contacts and I hope we can try on a lowered dogwalk soon. Unfortunately there's less time to work on other things now so only a small video of recent agility training.
I'm really, really happy with her, she's turning tight and her forward focus is getting better and better.
Zookie's now 42-42,5cm heigh, oooops bigger than expected :D - let's cross fingers she will not grow any more, or i'll have to learn how to throw a frisbee :D
Beside all the agility we started our obedience career and we really have fun, for me it's like a row of tricks. So we want to do the beginner exam in summer as it's also provided for agility competitions.
We had a great easter weekend in czech rep. and poland! On sunday we were at a dog show aaaaaaand nobody would have expected this but the judge, president of the french pyrshep club, really liked Zookie. So she got an exc.1, best of juniors, and finally Best of Breed. We were all really happy (especially Zookies breeder Olga i guess :D ).
So then the boring part was over, we had fun at loooong walks with a pack of pyrsheps. It was really funny to see how similar Zookie and her mother and her brother are.
Also, we had a nice puppy training, and I know now what to train next with Zookie - straight lines :D as her turns are really good now we really have to work on forward focus :D
Zookie is now nearly 9 months old, where did the time go?? She is really grown-up now, stopped destroying every little plastic thing when she's alone and was even in heat for the first time. I'm really satisfied with her character, she's friendly to all dogs and people, but not really interested in people she doesn't know, what is okay for me.
As we're living in the big city from monday - friday she is used to every tram, bus subway and lots of traffic and is coming to university lessons with me (where she is sleeping unlike me :P).
Of course, stealing food is still a big issue and I think this won't change as she's a true pyrshep :D - I never saw a dog so fixed at food. She even started to heel at strangers when she was running off leash and they were eating a kepab or something, which led to some funny moments :D.
But as much as she loves food, she loves playing, i'm really pleased with her food-toy-switch, which I trained really often with things like 2on/2off.
At the moment we're busy with lots of foundations for agility, we even started to run little sequences and I love it. She is really fast, tight and she moves in a really cool way (or maybe this is just up to me? :D). After a long break with running contacts we're on the right way again (at least I hope so), I hope summer will bring more chances and time to practise them.
Charlies Tod ist jetzt schon über ein Jahr her, es ist zwar leichter geworden aber er fehlt noch immer überall. Hier ein Video, das mich immer wieder an die schönen Zeiten erinnert und wo ich überall herumgekommen bin durch ihn ...
It's now more than one year since Charlies death. I still miss him so much, but it got easier. Here is a video i made for myself to remind me of all the precious moments we shared ...
Hups, Zookie was 7 months some days ago, my big girl :D
She didn't change much, still loves to run, to play and to eat! Due to the weather and my exams we had to stop training RC and foundations but we had much fun walking in the snow/ice with friends. Oh and we measured her with proper equipment and she's 41,2 now, so maybe she'll do the 41,5 ;)
