PyrShep Tani: November 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.

Monday, November 8, 2010

Agility Sunday in Croatia

On Sunday Tani had her first competition in A2 and it was also her first time running indoors. I admit I was more nervous than usually, I really just wanted her to feel comfortable in this new environment and didn't pay enough attention to my handling. The result was predictable: one very hyper and barky dog running all over the place, entering all of the tunnels on the way and having the time of her life :) So I can say she did absolutely great and I hope I'll be more relaxed next time and handle her better.

At the end of the day, there was another TUNNEL CUP - our newly discovered discipline, which gives so much joy to any tunnels-obsessed dog :) I think we both did very well in that 4fun run, she performed additional 2 tunnels (I guess 17 of them really weren't enough :)), both to my error for getting a little lost in the course. But in tunnel cup you just lose time, there are no penalties, so she was 2nd despite losing so much time there. Not bad at all! Thanks to Daša for the video and some photos from our walk on the beach.