Birthday Pawty Pictures

As promissed, here are some pictures from Xsara's birthday party - big thanks to Daša for taking them!

Xsara's B-day guests were:
Lija
Lana
Kate
Cherie
Katka
Bones
Tani
and of course the party girl Xsara :)
We hired a clown to amuse the guests
... there were doggy games such as tug-o-war
... the 3 little puppies ran around like crazy
... and the others preferred to cuddle
Xsara looked a little unhappy with her limber tail syndrome
... but she had fun too - her favorite part of the party was the cake
... other guests enjoyed the cake as well

All doggies were pretty tired after all of that and they agreed that the party was a big hit :)

Happy Birthday!

Happy 5th Birthday to my sweet sweet little Xsara and her siblings!


We are a little tired after two trials and an all-day agility seminar with AWC 2009 judge Manuel Alff, all in the past 3 days. But we sure had a great time. Xsara ran very nicely, specially on the workshop and in her 2nd run on today's trial, when she got through a very twisted course with no faults and faster than usually.


We are having Xsara's agility friends over tomorrow, and of course there will also be cake and presents :)

Our Crazy Weekend

We have so many news that I don't know where to start. I'll just go chronologically. We had an agility workshop with Anne Savioja on Friday. It was very interesting, she gave me some really good pieces of advice to improve speed and I can't wait to try them out. The most interesting two for me are: to have her follow a food tube on a rope to improve tunnels and to do a short sequence of jumps and have her outrun me - if she doesn't then I get to eat the reward and she has to watch me do it. Since I'm a vegetarian it means that we will be competing for cheese. But we won't try it until Thursday because she needs to rest a little, so I will train with my friend's dog (a poodle) today.

On Saturday it was trial time again and I could tell that by then Xsara was already very tired. I don't blame her - we had a trial on Saturday, RO on Monday, another trial on Wednesday (the photo on the right is from that trial), agility class on Thursday, workshop on Friday and another trial on Saturday, so it was a lot. She was very tired so we didn't run as fast as we could have, but it was still good enough for the third place. Here are the videos of our runs:

First Run (Agility)


Second Run (Jumping)


On Sunday we celebrated Xsara's 4th Birthday. We had a cake (healthy and delicious), presents and doggy friends (including Xsara's BFF Benetton), the whole package. We went only for a short walk because it was very hot, otherwise we stayed on the terrace where it was cooler. Xsara got quite possessive over one of her toy gifts and wouldn't allow other dogs to play with it, but the border collies preferred herding Xsara with the toy in her mouth than actually playing with the toy themselves, and Katka the poodle was to busy trying to jump into someone's lap so it was all good :)

Unfortunately, I also have a very bad news: Sena's people decided that they don't want her to do agility any more. They feel it's confusing for her to have several people teaching her. I was extremely disappointed than their decision because I don't agree with them, but there really isn't anything I can do. I just hope they will continue any type of work with her because she would really benefit from it.

To My Little Princess

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Well, on Saturday's trial we also managed to catch the caugh that has been going around in our Club. We immedeately went to the vet so the disease hasn't spread yet. But we're back on antibiotics and cuddling in the warm bed. The only danger would be if it would develop in pneumonia but we came in early enough. Otherwise we were 2nd but I'm not too impressed by our performance because I thought she was going slow and she missed a contact. But she was happy to run, which is the most important part. We had a Norwegian judge.
The Birthday Pawty was great, the whole playground was looking at us like we were mad because we had dog cake??? As if they'd never seen one of those ...

Happy Birthday

HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY SENA, SNOOPY, SCOTTY, SOČA, SORA in XSARA!

Other than that Xsara was very good on the trial this Saturday, she came 2nd. We will celebrate the Birthday on Friday and add pictures ;-)