Bed Rest

Tani hurt her front left leg on Friday. She was really slow on agility training and I thought she was tired because we had practice for another commercial before agility, so I stopped working with her and put her in a crate. When I picked up all my stuff and took her out of the crate, she was holding one leg in the air and only walked on three. I touched the leg to take a look at it and she started screaming. So we went to the vet. We did the X-ray and there is no fracture or dislocation, which is good. Apparently she must have strained a muscle or bump into something. She is now on bed rest and anti-inflammatory painkillers. We had to cancel her commercial shoot and delay the date of her first official trial, but health always comes first. Get well soon, mon petit chien français!

Tani's First Competition

In Slovenia dogs can start competing in agility at 15 months. Tani turned 15 months in March, but since I don't think we are prepared for a competition (she only learned the weaves on Tuesday and doesn't like waiting on the teeter), I entered her as a white dog in jumping on a competition in Vipava. As I expected, she didn't recognize the weaves right away and I did have some problems keeping up with her :) But my only goal was to make sure she is having fun and isn't worried about different environment, new obstacles, the judge, etc. I was very happy with how she behaved, she was completely relaxed and happy, just as I hoped she would be. She is normally a very carefree dog, but you never know how it's going to be in a new situation until you try it. Anyway, here is a video of her run:


By the way, despite all the time we lost on weaves, she still had the best time in medium :)

Tani's Sister Razz

Ever since I was little, I wanted to visit Barcelona. A couple of weeks ago this dream of mine came true. Unfortunately, I couldn't take my dogs with me, but I did have some awesome doggy company - Tani's sister
Razz and her friends.

Razz looks a lot like Tani, but is more sensitive in character. She has a wonderful family who really made me feel very welcome. She shares her humans Mon and Cris with tho other dogs, cute little schnauzers Gara and Iki. They took me to their agility training and invited me to their house where I spent a great evening in awesome company and enjoyed typical Catalan dishes. It was so much fun, I stayed there until 4 A.M. Big thanks to Mon and Cris for their incredible hospitality, and also to Mireia, Nuria, Laura and Victor for the dinner! I hope Razz and her family come to Slovenia soon, I think Tani would really like meeting her sister again and I know I would love to see them again as well :)

Tani's TV Commercial

Tani filmed her first TV commercial in February. She did a wonderful job filming outside in a busy city centre, and as always made me extremely proud. Once again, my dog had to pee in a commercial (Xsara also did the same trick in 2 commercials). Seems like I have a funny reputation :) You can see Tani's commercial here: CLICK HERE

Another Anniversary

A couple of days ago, Tani and I celebrated our first year together. In honour of this very special event for us, I'm sharing some photos from our trip to the Pyrenees to get puppy Tani, taken exactly one year ago. Most pictures were taken while she slept, because that was the only way to have her still for a couple of seconds, LOL!

Three blondes driving through France with 2 GPS devices, a map and directions from Via Michelin ... We still got lost :)


We met a real legend on a gas station!


We arrived to the hotel in Pau so tired that we didn't feel like going anywhere that evening. So our dinner was onion soup from a machine in the lobby of our hotel.


In Ljubljana it was still cold winter, but in the Pyrenees it was already spring. This ladybug stopped by to bring us good luck.


The next morning we continued our way from Pau to Gan. I first met my little puppy in a parking lot :) From there we followed the breeder to the kennel. This is the first picture Tani and I took together. I was very tired but so happy that I cannot describe it and Tani was ... suddenly very sleepy :)


We went for a little walk around the property to get to know the dogs and their way of life in their natural surrounding.


Tani and her sister Razz took another nap while we were taking care of the documents, signing the contract, filling out forms and doing other incredibly boring stuff :)


I still have to look twice to understand which leg is which :)


After lunch it was time for our long way back home. Tani behaved very nicely in the car.


And some of the first pictures in her new home with me :)

Running Contacts

Here is Tani's first running contacts video. Now that she can do a normal dogwalk, training will be a lot easier:

Officially Winter

After one entire month of vacation, we're now back home. There is a lot of snow in Ljubljana and Tani loves it. But because of the snow we cannot do any agility right now, so I admit I kind of hope it won't last for too long. On the seaside we were able to go for one training with Tani, mostly for contacts. Big thanks to Maša who let us use their training facility for that purpose!

Fireworks for New Year's Eve were not as much of a problem as I feared they would be. I bought a dried pig nose with honey to each of my dogs, I know it sounds disgusting but they are supposed to be delicious. The dogs went crazy for them so Tani didn't even notice the fireworks until some genius decided to have their own show in the camp right under the house we were staying in. She did get a little uncomfortable then because it was so close, but it wasn't too horrible, she just wanted to stay very close to me and was breathing a little more heavily than she usually does. So I think that went pretty well.

Here are some new winter photos of Tani, again thanks to Polona :)