PyrShep Tani: May 2010

Tani ...

... was born in a litter of 4 puppies on December 25th 2008. She spent the first two months of her life in the Loubajac kennel in the French Pyrenees. Her mother is Pecquelette de Loubajac and her father Hob-Nob's Victor.

When she came to stay with me, we started Silvia Trkman's puppy school, followed by Sivia's tricks class and later on agility handling classes in LoLaBu training center. We do everything using only positive training techniques. We are very fond of Silvia and her dogs, specially the crazy little La who is Tani's 3/4 sister. We also attended handling classes with Daša Zakotnik and Polona Bonač.

Tani has many passions in her life. The biggest one is agility, of course, but she also loves playing with her beagle sister and BFF Xsara, hiding her toys in the most odd places, running through the fields and meadows, playing with sheep and eating.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

First Official Competition

Tani had her first official competition on Saturday. She did extremely well, winning the jumping round with best absolute time of all dogs (S, M and L). In agility she was a little insecure about new obstacles so she had a refusal before the dogwalk and the A-frame, but once she was on them she really pulled ahead and did nice running contacts. I am very proud of her. She really loves agility and is a very fun dog to work with, so I know we are going to have a lot of fun together. Here is a video of her jumping run:

Monday, May 10, 2010

On the Road to Recovery

Tani is feeling much better. She is back to training agility and having the long walks she loves so much. But the long rest and the weight loss did affect her a little, so she still gets tired somewhat sooner than she used to. Unfortunately we have many rainy days lately so being outside is not as fun as it could be, but I'm doing my best to get her back into perfect shape. She has more energy every day and I love seeing her recover so well.