Dog Vegas

Last week ended up being a busy week, Chaos arrived on Monday and was a little horror. He screamed at night and terrorised the others through the day! Heidi and Brenda both really like him, Brian isn't bothered about him and Kody runs a mile! Heidi has been so good with him though and very patient, she lets him climb on her, hang off her tail and ears and they play really nicely together.

On Tuesday last week they all went to hydro (not Chaos). It was Brenda's first session but she was a natural, she is probably the best swimmer out of them all! Ill try and get some pictures of her when we go again.

On Thursday I set off to Dog Vegas with Heidi, Kody and Chaos. Chaos seemed to enjoy the experience of camping, he slept well in the van every night, no screaming which was brilliant. We had lots of people come to see him and give him cuddles and treats and he seemed to take it all in his stride. He will do anything for a treat, little piggy!

Anyway onto the Agility, Heidi was just wild all weekend. She did do some nice parts but then go wrong in style.  She just seems to be getting faster and faster at the moment but it results in poles on the floor an awful lot. She did a few 4-7 classes and seemed to cope well with them, we managed to get round those with less faults than the 3-5 courses anyway!

Kody has been a good boy, he only had 4 runs over the weekend but he is really listening and working well. He did a nice run in the 4-7 Agility on Saturday just coming out of his weaves but yesterday was his best run in 4-7 jumping going clear and getting 6th place! It was our first ever placing in G6 so i'm so pleased, clever boy.

A big congratulations this weekend goes to Jo and Zippy who won into G7 and had a lot of 1st places! Well done to you both, you make it look so easy!

Happy 7th Birthday Brian!!!

Empingham Show

I was so pleased when Empingham decided to change their venue to Lincoln show ground as its only 20 mins from home! Heidi couldn't run this weekend, she has scratched her eye and needs to keep it clean so we decided to leave her at home. We took Kody and Brenda and left Brian home with Heidi. Kody only had 1 run each day yesterday was comb 5-7 agility where he did very well, just ran past a jump as I was late with a command and missed his weave entry as I gave him a rubbish line. Today he ran in Comb 4-7 jumping and again was brilliant just knocking the first pole but then a faultless run. Im so pleased with him and how we have worked through the issues he was having as I really had thought about giving up running him all together.

Brenda enjoyed her two days out, she met Reno yesterday and they had a good play together and then she met Speedy today and I think she is in love! They couldn't get enough of each other!

Tomorrow is the big day, we get to bring Chaos home and I can't wait. His crate is up and ready, his puppy run in the garden is built and we are fitting his cage into the van after tea so then we are good to go. I pinched these two pictures from Jan on Facebook today of the puppies, (hope she doesn't mind!) Chaos is the second one in.

We also need to say well done to Natalie and Reno who won out of Grade 3 a couple of weeks ago, Well done!!!

Meet Chaos

We have decided to call the puppy Chaos, just hope in this case he doesn't take after his name! He will be 6 weeks old tomorrow, time seems to be going soooo slowly, we just want to get him home :)

Brenda's First River Walk

Brian, Heidi and Kody all went to hydro this morning. Kody is really doing well at the moment, I'd say now he actually enjoys going, he wags his tail and swims so much better and is more confident than ever. We took Brenda in too and she met Anne and had a walk around and up the ramp. She wasn't bothered at all so we have booked her in for next time.

This afternoon Brenda was full of beans and the others just wanted to sleep so I took her for a walk along the river. She was a really good girl, enjoyed having a sniff and exploring. She took herself down the riverbank, got in the river and had a swim all by herself! She took me by surprise although I'm not sure why, nothing else bothers her. She had a second dip and I managed to get her on video which is posted below.

This weekend is our last weekend of no shows, we really need to get some training in but the weather is just terrible here so every time we have chance we can't as it's raining!

Photo Update-Puppy

Photo Update-Brenda

Puppy!!!

You might think we are mad having 2 new dogs but we have actually been planning for a puppy for about 6 months now. We enquired about several planned litters this year before deciding on the one we have. I visited the litter a couple of weeks ago and today we have been to pick our new little boy. He is now 5 weeks old so still another 2 and a half weeks until he joins us. He is from Kody's sister Lexi (Bonvivant Symbolique at Tokyn) and Chase (Bonvivant Noblesse Oblige). We have always admired Chase so we were really keen to see the puppies and they are lovely, like little bears.

He needs a name though, all the names on our short list just aren't right so any suggestions would be appreciated or he will be coming home without a name!

I took loads of photos today, ill post some more (along with some more of Brenda) as soon as I get chance. Our boy is the one at the front in this pic.

Brenda has settled quite well, Brian Heidi and Kody are away on holiday at the moment as we were meant to be having a night away but as Brenda had joined us that hadn't happened, we still let the others go though as i'd already paid for it and they alway enjoy going. They are back tomorrow morning. It has meant that Brenda has had the opportunity to spend time getting used to me as she only knew Conor, she is very loving though and so likeable, i've already grown very attached to her!

Meet Brenda

We have a new addition to our household, Brenda. She is a Dutch Shepherd and was until recently Conor's work dog in Nigeria however now that he has returned home Brenda has come too to be a pet here with us. She was a little bit unplanned, it was only a decision that was made late last week and getting her back here was not uneventful either!

She flew with Conor as far as Amsterdam at the weekend but due to the rules for the UK being different to the rest of the EU she had to be flown the remainder of the way on a cargo flight. She stayed in Amsterdam from Saturday until today with a friend and then was flown to Heathrow. There were complications on her arrival as the origin country was wrong on the paperwork so she cost a fair bit to get cleared through customs but we will be claiming that back from the shipping company as it was their mistake. Anyway after a 4 hour drive to Heathrow today, a 4 hour wait for her to be released and a 4 hour drive back she is finally here! 

Brian and Heidi are happy enough with her, Kody is still a bit unsure but is doing his best to be nice.

Ill take some more pictures of her over the next few days and post them and later in the week we should have some more news to share too :)