Moj nori svet

Agility is fun

2011-02-15T13:48:00.000-08:00

A lot of things happened since I last wrote on my blog.
I think the most important thing is that we moved from city to the countryside - into a house, our house is surrounded with forrests and huge meadows to walk with my dogs and enjoy every second of our lives.
I have a new croatian sheepdog - her name is RO, which is over a year old now, and finally I started to teach (at least one of my dogs) running contacts. For now it looks very easy and nice. If you don`t believe, watch out this video:

I will keep you informed about our progress :)

Sorry

2009-10-11T11:58:00.000-07:00

It has been quite a while since I last wrote on my blog, but I promise I will do that more regulary. So many things happened in my life and it has been a very busy 3/4 of year - and it doesn`t look like last part of the year will be even more busy.
In May we have moved into a little house, 30 km outside of Ljubljana, and are really enjoying living in nature, having long walks in the woods, or just enjoying our day on our big terase. I can`t believe how much easier and cosier is living in house, with a big garden. That was the bigest thing that happened to us this year. We were without internet for some time, but we managed to solve this problem, and now we are connected to world. I can`t wait for winter and snow...
And the other, also big thing, is that my daughter Maja, started with school - she is in 1st grade, and I hope she`ll start to enjoy in school someday...
I would like to share with you some new photos of Graa - photos were taken by Borut (he`s also owner and big fan of croatian sheepdogs) - Thank you Borut !!!!

Srečno 2009 / Happy 2009

2008-12-31T13:48:00.000-08:00

We wish you all happy and successfull year 2009 !!!!!!

Dog books

2008-11-06T12:41:00.000-08:00

Two years ago I have bought a dog book and now I finally have some time to read it. And I enjoy it. It`s nothing new, just well known things. With this new puppy school group I have, I need to know more and more, many ways of explaining things, why do they work.
In this book I found some basic knowledgments, more about book you can find here ::

I have some more dog books I would like to read. And I hope in next months I will find some more time to do that.
I have also started with target training today. I have to find somebody to videotape me. I had so much fun with my little Boom - in just one session he knew how to lift his left legs. As I started laughing to him, his action was more and more energetic. Very fun.

Autumn

2008-11-01T10:38:00.000-07:00

Today I was thinking how much I like autumn, but just sunny autumn days, with magnificent colours in nature. You can`t see so much differnet colours nowhere else but in nature. And I enjoy every sunny autumn day outside, with my daughter and dogs.

Two days ago we had such a beautiful day I just couldn`t resist going out, with my camera, and try to get some nice photos. I think I made some nice photos of Pina - I could say my oldie in her autumn. For sure she is my favourite object to take photos off, she is so fotogenic (and she really iknoiwws how to stay still, untill I take photo or two or three ......). I also like taking pictures of Toy - he always has smile on his face, no mather what he`s doing (walking around, doing agility, catching balls or just sleeping).

We also found a mushroom and made some photos of it. I`m publishing just best of them.

October 2008

2008-10-30T16:34:00.000-07:00

So many things happened in October, and I didn't have any time to write about them. Huh.
Here are just short notes about everything.
11th and 12th October: I was attending an obedience seminar given by Mia Skogster (the first person who got 100 points in obedience ever). And I must admit I was pretty impresed by her, her work and by her self-disciplin most. I think she has a special gift, she can "read" every dog in just minute or even less. And she always has some idea about solving problem. She gave me some good ideas for making our big (I`m talking about my obedience with Gra) turns smaller and tighter - and I think +it`s working already.
17th October: I was on agility compeition, and made a second exam (for A2) with my little precious boy Boomi. It seems he`s coming back after that heavy fall on European open, he is getting more and more confident again. My crazy oldie Toy was third in A3 class. I was also running with Eni and Gra, but have no good result with them.

Boom - his second exam in A1

I have started a new puppy group in dog school, and I'm looking forward to work with them. I also have a new assistant in this classes, and I'm very happy that she decided to join and help me.
I'm also making some new video of dog tricks, but you'll have to be bit more patient for that.
And I also have one big news, but more about that next time. Some of you already know about my dreams, and that they are finally coming true. You'll know everything in next month.

Judging in Trbovlje

2008-10-05T09:08:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I have judged on agility competition in Trbovlje.
It was a very nice competition, and I have seen some pretty nice and smooth runs. Congratulations to all who have made it through.
I was very happy, because I got an approval from older judge colleggue, and I was proud as he liked my courses. Thank you. But on the other side, some of them will never admit that I'm a good judge (I have heard some words about some of my decisions - and I can't believe, how somebody who's standing 20m away from the A-frame, thinks that can judge contact better than me, who was standing half meter away - and more sad it's that person is also a judge ) perhaps better than themselves, and that my courses are nice.

Agility 1

Jumping 1

Agility 2

Jumping 2

Agility 3

Jumping 3

Take a look at them, and tell me do you think they are appropriate?
With this competition I have made all the requirements for become an International judge.

Happy Birthday Eni, Bibi and Boom

2008-09-29T03:00:00.000-07:00

My dear Eni, today you're 7 years old, and I wish you will live twice more. Your're like my shadow, always near me, with one eye checking where I am. You're so MINE.

On your 5th birthday you gave birth to 3 more miniature pinchers, 2 girls and 1 boy. Two of them are still with me - Boom and Bibi.

Today Bibi and Boom are two years old, and they are all I have dreamed off (self-confident, happy, good natured, beautiful). They both are great dogs to live with.

Bibi's biggest passion is Gra - her play mate for all the time. Stay my little maniac, crazy wild doggy, sweet and playfull, my arms are your greatest toy:

To my sweet little Boom, who's biggest passion are all sort of dog tricks, standing on front feet or just observing world from my back.

Maribor,14.9.2008-RO-II

2008-09-19T00:38:00.000-07:00

For the first time I was competing in RO-II and endded on 2nd place with my precious Graa. We are getting better and better.
Thanks to Alenka and Jasna (Jasna is owner of Graa's full brother Grom) I have a video of our work.

Hand stand

2008-09-18T12:56:00.000-07:00

Finally Boom knows a new trick, and I had somebody to take a photo of him performing it.

Crazy weekend

2008-09-08T14:02:00.000-07:00

Past weekend was full of dog events again.
On Saturday we were on the agility competition in Ljubljana - KD Krim. It was a long trial, and we also had teams competition. I had my own little team, consisting of Eni, Toy and Boom. I was eliminated with little Boom, but I was running very good with Toy and Eni. Finally I made an exam with Boom (but still have to do 2 more, to get to higher level - A2). I was quite happy with his run (he's coming back after European Open), he just stopped on the dog-walk but even though he did a very good contact. I measured Tit this weekend, and it lookes like he's small also (34,5 cm).
On Sunday our club (KD Barje) organised official raily obedience competition. And I have to say it was one of my better performances. I was competing in RO-I class with Graa, and ended on 6th place. I was very happy when she did almost perfect left 270 degree turn (I have most difficulties with it, so I was very happy because this exercise is improving). She did all the exams very nice, and her heeling was almost perfect. We're getting better from competition to competition. I'm thinking about going to the competition in KD Maribor next weekend.
It will be busy weekend again - on saturday we have agility competition in Hrušica, and on sunday we're going (most probably) to RO competition.

Sad

2008-08-30T12:03:00.000-07:00

Some thing are happening in my life and I should be proud about about them, but it seems like I'm not allowed to be. And I'm so sad, because I can't share it with person who means so much to me. I think she won't understand, not at this moment. And it makes me so sad, I can't find the words to describe it. And I don't have anybody to share my enthusiasm with, nobody to share doubts, nobody to be happy with me. I think I will be misunderstood, I only want the best for everybody. But what can I do, I'm optimistic about everything.
But thinks get better ........ once.

Agility4Fun

2008-08-27T22:37:00.000-07:00

This unoffical competition was a big success. We had over 100 runs in two categories. Althought, the weather on saturday was very bad, it was raining pretty heavily and rain didn't stop thorught whole night, I was very happy when it stoped in the morning. While I was driving to Ljubljana, sun came out and started to use all his power to make a beautiful day. We had a beautiful sunny weather whole day, there was plenty of watter on the ground, so the dogs had plenty of opportunities to cool them. I even saw some handlers running through watter.
I would like to thank everybody who came on this event, and unselfishly helped me. You all were great. I think this was my first competition, where I didn't hear anybody complaining. But the main persons, who normally aren't satisfied with anything and always find something to complain about, were absent. So I really was very happy with the day.

Thanks to Ursha I have some nice photos of Maja and her Pina:

And I also have one photo of Bibi:

Just a sign that I'm still alive

2008-08-21T01:51:00.001-07:00

This month has been so full of happenings, that I didn't have any time for writting here. And here is just a short note of what happened.
I was pretty much working for double National show CAC Zasavje & CAC Trbovlje, which will happen in the last weekend in August (30th & 31st August). And all is going very well (I'm very happy I finally learned how to put some things together and much more about the program for shows). And I hardly wait. I'm looking forward to meet Karli again (he's coming with five of his dogs - so there will be plenty dogs to cuddle).
This weekend, on sunday, our dog club (Kinološko društvo Barje) is organising unofficial agility competition under the name Agility4Fun (I didn't expect so many people to enter - last year we had about 30 people, this year we have over 60 and they will be running over 100 runs)- it's very funny, because on this competition we allow competitors to change dogs between themselves, and it's great opportunity to give your dog to somebody else. So I have given two of my dogs to run with somebody else, Gra will be running with Katja and Urška, and Toy will be running with Barbara and Daša. I will run with Eni, Bibi and Boom, Maja will be running with Pina and I think that are all my dogs. ANd I'm very happy because for the firt time, some of my students will be running - they are Jan with beagle Chivas, Eva with kerry blue terrier Kiara and Tjaša with staffordshire bullterrier Zoya.
And something else happened: on 7th September our club is organising one more competition - but this time Raily obedience competition. It's something new for me (organisation of that kind of competition) but I'm very happy about the fact I have made something in this club and things started to happen.
I think I will dropp some short note here after Agility4Fun.

Videos from European Open - part 2.

2008-07-31T05:26:00.000-07:00

Here are some more videos.
Eni - jumping (I liked this run very much, Eni was running very fast, she saw combined jump first time in her life and she did it careful but still managed it, she went into the tunnel very quickly and fell on her left side at the end of it, but still ran forward with full speed)

Toy - jumping ( I wasn't able to get any good run from Toy, he was to crazy for me)

Toy - agility (once more disqualified, but still running like crazy and barking all the way)

Videos from European Open

2008-07-30T13:11:00.000-07:00

Finally I have found some time to put videos from European Open on youtube.
I have some more, but you will have to wait bit more for them.
Gra - agility (I think this was my best run that weekend and I was very happy when we made it with only one refusal at the end)

Gra - jumping (there were to many tunnels on our way )

I can say only, that I'm very pleased with our runs, and with her responding at the moment - I think you can see the difference - thanks to Marc once more ;)
Boom - jumping (he crashed into the doublle jump, and I decided to stop and make sure he's OK, and then run to the end - so I was disqualified)

Eni - agility (you can see a very bad handling, and very good running despite to it- I think that weekend Eni was running like crazy and I'm very happy about that)

You will get some more videos tomorrow (I have Eni's jumping and Toy's agility and jumping). Untill then you enjoy in this videos.

Crazy dogs

2008-07-27T10:03:00.000-07:00

Since there is a holiday in agility world also, we have to spent our time somehow else. And frisbee is a great way to spend some time. I take my camera and I try to make some good photos of my dogs. And this time I have some good photos I would like to share with you.

Tit is now over one year old, and he is a really great dog, he's always full of energy, funny, cooperative, he adore all sort of toys. Some photos of him.

Almost got ya

It's very hard to make a good photo of Gra - so I'm very happy when I manage to do something good.

We are planning some trips over Slovenia in next days, so we will try to make more photos and keep you informed.

European Open 2008

2008-07-23T02:06:00.000-07:00

Last weekend we were on one of the biggest events in agility world - European Open. I was participating with little Boom, Eni and Toy and also croatian sheepdog Gra. I don't have any result to be proud of, but I'm very happy with almost all of my runs.
We left our home on thursday morning and in Slovenia weather was sunny. Although I checked the weather report for Germany (and it was really bad) I hoped for the best. When we drove closer and closer to Germany, weather got worse and worse. In the evening we drove to Gelsenkirchen and it was raining. We put up our tent and made our little camp with other slovenians.
When we woke up on friday it was raining. We want to check in and made a little training at 11 o'clock. Boom and Gra fell off the dog-walk on training, and I decided not to run at full speed with them. Unfortunately I didn't remember to put up a double and combine obstacle for little Boom (because he had never seen it in his life). I was very pleased with our training, so I was very happy about this competition.
On saturday we started with jumping course with minpins. Eni was first running from my pack and she was running very good and fast (I'm so sorry I don't have this run taped). Then it was Boom's turn and unfortunately he crashed into double obstacle, mad a salto, so I picked him up to make him calmer and then ran on - it was disqualification of course. I made a big mistake with Toy and on the combined obstacle got a refusal (because of warning him to much about it).
The day went on and we were also running agility courses. I made a realy nice agility course with Gra and I'm very proud of it. You will see it on video. I will publish it later.
On sunday we had team copmpetitions, but I run very bad (it was raining all the time and it was impossible to run in all that mud).
I met some very nice people there and this years EO will stay in my memory. I don't remember when it was so cold in july and we drunk enormous liters of tea, but we played cards (Tarok) late in the night. It was a great event, and we're planning it next year also - in Netherlands.

Iški Vintgar

2008-07-14T08:00:00.000-07:00

Last friday was very hot, so we spent it in Iški Vintgar, a little valley near Ljubljana. It's our destination for hot summer days. Dogs enjoyed very much, and so did Maja and I. I think we were main attraction there. Dogs were yuite loud (as usual) and we didn't stay unnoticed. We had such a fun - but we always do when we are together somewhere.
I have some photos from this trip:

Gra and Maja enjoyed in water and it was misson impossible to get them out of there:

It was very hot and even Pina went into the water:

and after she and Toy enjoyed in sun (while we were in water)
And best friend posing together
Gra & Bibi

Gra & Maja

Seaside

2008-07-11T02:25:00.000-07:00

Today we are leaving Grosuplje, and going to Portorose (slovenian city on coast). Tomorrow there will be an agility competition - this will be an afternoon/night competition. It's one of my favourite compeition. Maja is going as well and we'll spend some time in the sea.
Friend from Postojna - Ivan invited us to present the agility at the horse day in Postojna, so we'll be there on Sunday. Thank you Ivan. I think Maja will be running with Pina as well, so I hope Pina will be in the mood for this.
I'll make a short report next weekend.

The Miniature Pinscher

2008-07-10T04:35:00.000-07:00

I live with miniature pinschers for more than 6 years, and I have to say I addore them. They are so beautiful breed, healthy and very active. And I can't imagine living without them.
Unfortunatelly 95% dogs in Slovenia, who's owners say they have a miniature pinscher, are mix-breed. Their parents are without pedigree, so they are without pedigree and for me that is not a Miniature pinscher, but mix-breed - cute and beloved mix-breed, but still not Miniature pinscher.
Reason for writting this down, is an e-mail I got yesterday in which a girl is selling puppies, mix-breed puppies and saying she has Miniature pinscher puppies. And it all makes me so sad and angry and I can't do anything about it. And again somebody will buy a cute puppy, and say I don't need a pedigree, because only dogs who go to shows need that paper. But this is far from truth. Pedigree is much more than a piece of paper. There are written parents, grand parents, grand grand parents and you can find much more in pedigree.
You wouldn't believe what kind of dogs are sold as Miniature pinschers, and naive owners who think thet their dog is a typical for their breed. I sometimes don't know if there is a chihuahua in front of me or what, and kind of colours they have, from almost yellow to brown with black markings, with big white markings, and white socks, and horrible short apple heads, and long as dachshunds, and ....... Horrible. And people, here in Slovenia, have completely wrong opinion about Miniature pinschers, unfortunatelly everything small and brown is called a Miniature pinscher.
At the moment we have a litter of Miniature pinschers with pedigree (who have almost the same price as the ones without) in Slovenia, who are very typical, black with beautiful dark red markings, with excellent characters, and owners have difficulties to sell them to good homes.
At the beginning, when I started breeding, I hoped for better times for this beautiful breed, but unfortunatelly it only gets worse and worse. But I'm still optimistic, we have some good Minpins in Slovenia, who were brought from abroad, and I hope we will manage to learn people what a pedigree is for, and what it means. But untill than, I can only try to explain everybody, who is able to listen, what pedigree is for.

Pictures

2008-07-06T08:51:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Iztok and Andraž, from www.agility-slo.net , I always have beautiful photos from competitions. There are many of them, but I will put here only the best. I like those very much (because I know how hard it's to make a good picture of fast black dog)

And here is one picture of Boom - I just realised how small he is, but I think he's perfect.

Puppy school

2008-07-04T02:31:00.001-07:00

Puppies are so great, I just addore them, working with them, and I started enjoying in teaching people how to work with their puppies, how to enjoy with them. Thanks to Katja I have some pictures of lovely little puppies.
How can you not love them?This is a little staffordshire bullterrier (SBT) named Eli, and she is only two months young, and already in school.

And we have another SBT in school - Tara (she is a bit older, she has only 3 months).

And we also have a little chinese crested dog - Fear (crazy liitle boy), who addore his owner, and has eyes only for her. On this class, his hair is a bit messy, but you can still see his beautiful face and giant bat ears.

All of them work very good, their owners have good feeling for their dogs, and I hope they will continue doing so good job.
Some more photos:

Belgium

2008-06-26T14:23:00.000-07:00

I'm back and I don't have the words to say what an incredible experience it was.
My trip there started very lousy, I had a flat tire on my car on tuesday evening and I came back home. On wednesday I put new tire on my car and got back on the road again. And it all went well. Maja and me slept in car for one night and on thursday we arrived to Belgium. It was quite cold there, but I was very happy. On thursday I was on seminar with two dogs, with my crazy Graa and even more crazy little Boom. My "instructor" for Gra was Marc van Beeck and HE was great. I can only say, that he immediately realised our problems, and was trying to help us in my handling. He liked Gra a lot. I already knew that she is a great dog, and he just made me stronger in my oppinion. And for now I have plenty of ideas how to make our performances better. Almost everything he touhgt us, was new for us, but it's working. We just need training in that direction. Boom was in group at a czech instructor - Eva Lačnakova and I got so many ideas for improving my handling from her and also great training tips for handlers mainly.
On friday we took a little trip to Antwerpen, bought a little slovenian flag, and some souvenirs.
On saturday we started with competition. It was held on football gorund, there were 5 rings, and I sure had a lot of work. At first I started with Boom on jumping course - and he did a great job, we had one refusal, but still had a second best time. And then I was running with my other dogs. I'm very proud and happy about Gra's jumping - we ended on 5th place (out of 120) and I think this is a very good result for us.
On the first day I qualified to final run with my little Eni. She was doing a really good job there, and I was very pleased with her performance. In final run (on sunday), which is basically knock-out, she was doing very good, but I wasn't - unfortunatelly I have forgotten to tell her the command for short jump, and she made a big turn, which costed us a final run.
There were some zwergpinschers running, and a lady from Netherlands liked my guys and girls, so she is very interested about next litter.
Unfortunatelly I don't have any videos of my runnings, because it was very hard to follow me on all these rings.
It really was a great experience and I'm looking forward for next year. Because for sure, I'm going there.

Holidays

2008-06-17T03:49:00.000-07:00

Portorož is behind us, and I think I did a good job there. Still I have some work to do, but it will be done, till the end of next weekend. I have seen one croatian sheepdog, a bitch, 8 months young and she is very nice. I love her character, although she was too calm for my kind of dog. Everybody already knows, that I prefer energetic dogs. I don't have any videos from Portorož, I was too tired to do anything else.
Tomorrow me, Maja and my precious dogs, are leaving to Belgium. And I still can't believe it. Two weeks ago, it seemd so far far away, and now it's so close. I think I won't be sleeping much tonight. I'm so excited about it. I'm going there for some seminars, competitions and even some holiday (only two days, but it's better than nothing). There is so many km in front of us, but I'm looking forward to this trip. So I'll make some photos of Belgium, try to make some videos of tricks, some videos of competition .....
Wish me luck, and I know it'll help me lot.

Portorož

2008-06-12T23:51:00.000-07:00

Today I'm leaving to Portorose, for a weekend. It will be working weekend, but I hope we'll have great fun on the seaside. Maja and all the dogs are coming with us as well. And we're taking TAROK cards with us. Weather report is not so good, but at least it won't be very hot. I hope we'll have some time to make a video from this trip.. So see you all on Monday.

Picture from RO

2008-06-11T22:26:00.000-07:00

I have found one picture of me and my Gra, from the RO competition on sunday. Thank you Rinchy

My students

2008-06-10T13:20:00.000-07:00

I have an agility classes for almost a year and a half. And I enjoy in it every day. At first I wasn't sure, if I'll manage it. ut now I'm sure I'm doing a good job. Here is one of my students - parson russel terrier JUPI:

Raily obedience

2008-06-09T22:38:00.000-07:00

On Sunday I was on the competition. And again I was competing in RO-I class. I was very happy with my handling and even more with Gra's work. She was very happy, and focused, and I really enjoyed. I got the impression that she had fun for the first time (on the competition). And for the first time, she wasn't confused, due to signs on the way. You can see our work below.

Work, work and more work

2008-06-07T13:24:00.000-07:00

In these days we are really busy. I have started working a job, which suits me and I like it a lot. I hope I will work there more often and get more opportunities to prove myself.
I'm starting with puppy school on Monday. And I have interesting breeds in my class - there will be a chinese crested dog - hairless, staffordshire bullterrier, one english cocker spaniel, a zwergpinschre, and I hope 2 more staffordshire bullterriers. We'll have much fun, so if you want to join us, you send me an e-mail to kdbarje@volja.net . We'll learn some of basic stuff, and a lot of tricks. I'll keep you informed trough my lessons, what we are doing, and I hope I'll be able to made some videos. But all of this later.
I'm getting closer and closer to Belgium, and for now it looks very promising. Keep your fingers crossed for me and my trip there.

Links

2008-05-27T13:55:00.000-07:00

In these days, I will put on links to the webpages of the people I admire a lot, and I always try to learn from them.
Today I have put up a link to the owner of Gera - litter sister from my croatian sheepdog Graa.
I have also added a link to Silvia Trkman's LoLaBu Land - you can find a lot useful information about training agility & tricks, amusing videos of dog tricks, and her everyday life.
And there is one more person I would like to introduce to you - Alen Mareković - the owner of Mawlch kennel (my Gra is from there yes).
And there will be more.

Judging and competing

2008-05-25T14:02:00.000-07:00

Past weekend was full of dogs, in every meaning of the word. I saw so many good dogs, and I had a really good time judging an agility competition in Slovenska Bistrica. This was our national competition, and also it was a qualification for this years WC in Finnland. I was very happy, when some of my favorites, has made it trough and made a really good result, which will take them to this event. We have some very good dogs in slovenian agility. And we, for sure, have a lot of dogs, who know a big amount of all sorts of tricks. One of them is Barbara and her beagle Xsara - you can see a lot about theme here. I hope you will enjoy in their performances, as I do.
And today I spent a day on a Raily obedience compeition. I was competing with my Gra in RO-1. We ended up on 10 th place (out of 32 competitors). So I think we have made a good job, and our performance wasn't so bad (of course it could and should be better). We just need to train more. And I have made a promise to myself to train more. The next competition will be on 8th July in Domžale, and we will be there, for sure.

Dissapointed

2008-05-22T14:56:00.000-07:00

Once again I'm disappointed about adults, fully grown up people. In certain way grown up. I just can't believe, once more, how bad some people are, how they go over everything, don't bother about anything or anybody, to get to their "point". And, you know what, it's always the same person, it seems I can't get her/him out of my life. And every time I'm so amused.
Today I got an e-mail, which really surprised me, in negative way. Last week I got a call from a highly respected person (at least it was till today), which was angry about the fact, that something (I can't say somebody, because now I'm sure, that person doesn't have a heart) is trying to manipulate with him/her. And today I got e-mail, quite opposite from the phone call. And I was really disappointed, sad about humans.
Luckyly I have dogs, which give me more and more ideas how to spent my time - away from evil and bad people. They are my sunshine through the life. Always brightfull, cheerfull, and full of ideas how to convince me, that life isn't so bad.
But guess what, today life sucks.

New decission

2008-05-20T10:45:00.000-07:00

I have made a new decission about this blog. Because of many friends, all over the Europe and world, I have decided to write in english. Because my english isn't perfect, you'll have to be patient and my messages will be shorter ;)

Ložnica

2008-05-18T08:36:00.000-07:00

Včeraj smo bili na doooooolgi tekmi v Ložnici. Še dobro, da je bilo vsaj vreme za silo OK, in da je bilo okoli dovolj velikih travnikov za uganjanje pasjih norčij, druženj, metanj frizbjev ....
Najprej se moram pohvaliti, da nama je z Gra uspelo narediti drugi pogoj, za prehod v A3/J3. One more to go. Parkur niti ni bil zelo enostaven, tako da sem zelo vesela, da nama je uspelo. Žal mi je le, ker sem v jumpingu Gra uspešno zdiskala na zadnji oviri. Pa tako dobro nama je šlo tudi v jumpingu - le eno palčko je podrla, drugo je bilo vse zelo OK. Kako pravijo - pa več sreče prihodnjič. S Toy-em nama je uspelo sestaviti skupaj en zelo hiter in zelo zabaven jumping. Imam tudi nekaj posnetkov, ki bojo objavljeni.
Najbolj pa me je razveselilo, ko se je po celodnevni tekmi, Biba igrala z manchestrsko terierko Taro. To je bil prvi pes, druge pasme, s katerim se je Bibi igrala. Še celo več, sama jo je vabila na igro. Boom se je seveda naigral s svojo super prijateljico in konkurentko Gerto.
Kar nekaj časa nas ne bo na slovenskih tekmah. Naslednji vikend sodim v Slovenski Bistrici, v Mariboru nas ni, ker smo na CAC Hrušica (pridno služimo eurčke za v Belgijo), potem pa en vikend ni tekme, potem je CACIB Portorož in nato BELGIJA. Komaj čakam. V Belgijo gremo na seminarje, tekme in upam, da tudi na dobršno mero žuranja ...... Seveda bo sledilo obširno poročilo, ampak itak bo še prej veliko novičk.
Nekaj posnetkov Boom-a (Ložnica, 17.5.2008):

BOOM-Agility 1

Boom - open Jumping

Svetovno prvenstvo belgijskih ovčarjev

2008-05-13T12:29:00.000-07:00

Minuli vikend smo preživeli v Kočevju, na svetovnem prvenstvu belgijskih ovačarjev. Bili smo pomočniki pri organizaciji agilityja, na katerega je bilo prijavljenih 125 psov. Končna številka nastopajočih psov je bilo 120 iz kar 19 držav. In moram priznati bilo je kaj videti. Vedno znova mi postaja jasno, da ljudi navdušuje eden izmed belgijskih ovčarjev, in vedno bolj mi je jasno, da me borderji nikoli ne bojo navduševali in da nikoli ne bom razumela kaj vidijo ljudje v njih.
Prvič smo se v Kočevje odpeljali že v sredo, da smo prevzeli ovire in zakoličili parkur. Nekaj malega smo tudi potrenirali. Ovire so bile pripeljane iz Nemčije (WT Metal) in moram reči, da so mi bile zelo všeč. V sredo smo tudi videli, da je v Slovenijo prispel flyball in se zelo razveselili, predstavljala sem si sicer večjo mašino, ampak tudi ta bo v redu. Jo že pridno uporabljamo.
V četrtek je bil dan za trening, tako smo se v Kočevju zbrali že kar precej zgodaj. Vse je potekalo po ustaljenem urniku in treningi so minili brez zapletov. Po treningih je bila uradna otvoritev, in potem smo šli domov.
V petek pa se je začelo za res, takoj zjutraj so se postavili parkurji in začelo se je tekmovanje. O rezultatih ne bi veliko govorili, saj so objavljeni na uradni strani šrvenstva.
Rada bi nekaj malega napisala predvsem o vzdušju. Bilo je res super, nepozabno, izredno sproščeno, razen enega manjšega zapleta na začetku, ki mi je zeloooooo veliko povedel o določenih osebah, in o telefončkih. Kako lahko je okriviti nekoga drugega za dejanja, sploh če misliš da te nihče ni slišal. Ampak po tekmovanju je bilo vzdušje izredno sproščeno, šli smo na večerjo, se tam nasmejali do solz, nato smo punce še malo požurale (in zaradi izostanka določene osebe je bilo nadvse sproščeno, lepo in zabavno).
Sobotna tekmovanja so potekal po programu. Večer pa se je kar razvlekel. Po naporni organizaciji, smo odšli na obvezno večerjo, kar 20 pridnih agilitašev, ki smo pomagali pri organizaciji. Večerja v Luigi-ju (špageterija in pizzerija ob avtobusni postaji v Kočevju) je bila zelo okusna in že ob večerji smo se nasmejali do solz, oziroma za par let nazaj in za kakšno vnaprej. Kako smo bili sproščeni, vsako besedo smo uspeli obrniti na hec in skupno s prejšnjim večerom je bilo le nekaj - izostanek iste osebe, ki bi nam definitivno pokvarila razpoloženje. Po večerji smo še malo požurirali v agilitaškem taboru. Malo smo si privoščili tekmovalce, zamenjali smo zastave, obvili šotore, en italijanski kemper in pa en avto s trakom, ter si privoščili obilno dozo smeha in krohotanja. V glavnem hecnih idej nam ni manjkalo, nekatere so tudi ovekovečene na fotki.
Na žalost pa v nedeljo brez manjšega incidenta ni šlo: neki osebi se je zazdelo, da si nekdo ni zaslužil uvrstitve na prvenstvo sploh. Osebno sem mnenja, da je treba slovenske tekmovalce spodbujati, in ne samo določenih, ampak vse, treba jim je dati možnost da se pokažejo, četudi ne speljejo stvari, ampak vsak trening je pomemben - še posebaj treningi pod določenim pritiskom. Na žalost niso vsi tega mnenja. Za nekatere so vredni samo določeni, ki kljub temu,d a si včasih ne zaslužijo, so poveličani v nebesa, pa se ne trudijo nič bolj kot tisti "smrtniki" ki se jih stalno poriva v ozadje. Ampak tudi to smo preživeli in tudi ta "bedarija" ni mogla skaziti dobre volje in odnosov med tekmovalci. Hecno je le da izostanek neke osebe in oseba, ki je v nedeljo naredila manjši incident, je ena in ista oseba, in vsi smo se je poskusili čimbolj izogibati, ker je to dobro za nas in ker vsem privoščimo uspeh, pa kakršenkoli že.
V glavnem organizacija agilityja nam je zelo uspela, res je lepo ko te pohvalijo za dobro opravljeno delo. Moram pa reči, da sem nekaj ljudi bolje spoznala, in moram reči, da imam po tem vikendu md slovenskimi agilitaši, še kakšnega prijatelja več, in ne manj.

5 let

2008-05-06T05:21:00.000-07:00

Z mano je že celih 5 let (+ 9 mesecev, če smo natančni). Ja kdo le - Maja, seveda. Danes zvečer ob 23:32 bo minilo točno pet let, odkar me razveseljuje, odkar lahko uživam ob njej in se marsikaj naučim. Rodila se je kot 2990 g težka s 50 cm - se pravi kot malo težja štruca kruha. In od takrat se je že marsikaj spremenilo, marsikaj je postalo lažje, lepše, marsikaj pa tudi težje, bolj komplicirano. Seveda bo sprememb še veliko in na to se bo kar treba navaditi. Včasih me kar preseneti s svojimi dejanji - v dobrem smislu seveda. Moram pa priznati, da me je pošteno strah prihajajočih let. Naslednje leto bomo šli že v šolo - kako hitro je teh pet let minilo.

Najbolj me razveseljuje dejstvo, da naravnost uživa v družbi psov in da kaže zanimanje za delo s psi. Upam, da bo tako tudi ostalo.

Slikic na računalniku nimamo veliko, v albumih pa ogromno. Predvsem so slikice iz prvih dveh let, samo v albumih.

Tako da bomo začeli s starostjo leta in pol, ter prvim bolj konkretnim snegom:

Seveda smo šli tudi na morje in takrat je bila prepričana, da je tudi ona en izmed naših psov. Nosila je rdečo ovratnico, bila privezana z rdečo vrvico na drevo in uživala življenje. V glavnem to je bilo za njo poletje psa - da ne bomo rekli pasje poletje.

Ampak tudi ta faza je minila.

Ena lepših stvari zanjo je bila, ko smo imeli mladičke - september, oktober 2006. Z njimi je res uživala in kadarkoli je bil pripravljena poskrbeti za njih in se igrati z njimi - pa tudi oni z njo. Takrat je bila stara 3 leta in pol.

Stalno se nam nekaj dogaja, stalno nekam hodimo, stalno se slikamo, slikic je iz zadnjega leta toliko, da ne vemo katero bi pokazali. Je pa ena lepša od druge.

Zelo uživa v obeh vlogah

princeske

ali

male morske deklice.

Najprej trening, nato košnja

2008-05-02T14:29:00.000-07:00

Danes je bil tako lep sončen dan, da bi ga bilo že kar žal ne izkoristiti. Zato smo se spet napokali v avto, naložili kosilnico, delovna sila je pripeljala še drugo kosilnico in smo šli - v akcijo. No v bistvu smo imeli kar tri kosilnice in delo je bilo narejeno kot bi mignil. Baterija v fotiču pa je mrtva .......
Najprej je bilo seveda potrebno potrenirati - in šlo nam je zelo dobro. Po treningu je prišlo na vrsto par metov frizbijev, in šele nato se je lahko začelo ta zaresno delo - košnja. Zalaufali smo kosilnico in v slabih dveh urah je bilo poligon pokošen v nulo. Res lepo zgleda. Takoj smo ga morali stestirati in sledilo je valjanje po tistih crknjenih deževnikih .... Kako je blo fajn. Seveda je sezono valjanja odprla Pina - kot se spodobi za šefico pasjega tropa.

Popoldne pa smo se odpeljali še na kratko kavo in sladoled v Portorož. Kar težko sem verjela koliko ljudi je bilo tam na ulicah, v kafičih ... In spraševala sem se ali so prišli samo na kavo, tako kot mi, ali na malo daljše počitnice. Res je bilo sproščujoče sedeti v družbi dveh prijaznih in uglajenih gospodičev, piti kavo, zraven lizati sladoled in se pogovarjati o marsičem. Spet sem ob tem ugotovila kako drugačen je moj pogled na svet. Saj ne rečem, da je napačen in da mi ni lepo. Ampak je pa tako zelo drugačen. Ko smo sedeli tam v barčku Cacao in se pogovarjali, me je prešinilo, saj ljudje točno vedo kje me lahko najdejo, ali na poligonu ali pa pri Tanji, in res sem se malo zamislila. Vidim v tem ves smisel svojega življenja?? In moram si priznati, JA v tem trenutku ga res vidim. Lepo mi je, ko preživljam ure in ure na poligonu, bodisi s tečajniki, ali s treniranjem svojim psov. Še lepše pa mi je, ko se po treningu ali pa kadarkoli, zapeljem v bar Sokol (Ob dolenjski železnici 30) in tam vedno srečam Tanjo, z njo poklepetam, ji lahko o čem tudi pojambram, brez slabe vesti ali pa brez neodobravanja - ampak to ne pomeni da se v vsem strinja z mano, sploh ne - samo na pravi način zna povedati. In ja trenutno je to en velik smisel mojega življenja. Komaj čakam da se bo začelo še toplejše vreme, da bo z mano na treninge hodila tudi Maja, in da bove šle potem na nekaj hladnega, se vsedle, sprostile in uživale ob dobri družbi in čveku.

Jutri gremo na tekmo na Ptuj, ampak o tem več napišem, ko se vrnemo.

Snemanje

2008-05-01T13:03:00.000-07:00

Včeraj smo bili na snemanju oddaje Živa V Mariboru. Predstavljali smo pasmi hrvaški ovčar (v živo) in pa pritlikavi pinč (naslednjo sredo, 7.5.2008 ob 18.30). Bilo je zelo lepo, voditeljica je ena hiperaktivna deklica - Natalija, in 15 minut v studiu z njo je minilo kot bi mignil. Sem mislila, da se pogovarjamo samo kakšnih 5 minut, pa jih je bilo 15. Zvečer smo si pogledali ponovitev na RTS . Ko bo posnetek objavljen na netu, ga pripopamo tudi sem gor.
Sem se pa spet zamislila, kako je trapasto da pri vsej količini ljubljanskih televizij, ni nobene, ki bi delala take kratke prispevke s predstavitvijo pasem. Idej imam ogromno, samo ne vem še kako bi jih sprovedla.
Na koncu smo voditeljici - Nataliji predstavili še Guccija in ostala je brez besed. Oziroma njene edine besede so bile, kako je velik. Pri njegovih 78 kg je res zeloooooo veliiiiiik. Kamorkoli priedmo z njim smo deležni občudovanja in čudenja. Prav hecno mi je, da zbuja pri ljudeh tako strahospoštovanje, on pa je tak nežen pes z velikim srcem. Kaj le bi si mislili ljudje, ko bi ga vidli kako se izležava čez celo posteljo.

Vadbišče

2008-04-29T23:50:00.000-07:00

V nedeljo smo se že ob 9 ih napokali v avto, naložili vadbišče in se odpeljali na Barje. Odločili smo se, da bomo v vadbišču za agility naredili malo reda in pokosili travo. Ampak ker je bil tako lep sončen dan, se je košnja kar zavlekla. Psi so bili cel dan spuščeni ni so noreli, na koncu pa bili tako utrujeni, da so že sami lezli v avto v bokse.
Seveda nam tudi slikovnega materiala ne manjka.

Toy ve kako se uživa: Naša starčka si rada pogrejeta kosti na sončku:
Na koncu sta ugotovila, da se da uživati na sončku, tudi Bibi in Boom:

Novost ali razočaranje?

2008-04-24T04:21:00.000-07:00

Evo, pa ga imamo. Postal je naš pes - Titko ritko, ker se ga je njegova lastnica naveličala in ugotovila, da pa res ne bi imela psa in da se ji smili, ker nima dovolj aktivnega življenja. Pa kaj sem ji govorila, ko se je odločala za pritlikavega pinča, da NEEEEEEEEEEE, ker je preveč aktiven, preveč nor in na sploh da to ni pes za njen način življenja. Pa sem že takrat sumila na takle konec - oziroma za Tita je tole bolj začetek življenja. Upam, da bo pri nas res užival, zaenkrat so ga kar lepo sprejeli (res pa je da o ga že od prej poznali). Mali - ali bolje rečeno kar veliki (saj ima kar 37 cm plečne višine) je suppppper. Ne vem, če bi si zase lahko želela boljšega psa. Rad ima žogice, frizbije, vse kar se premika in se da prijet v gobec, rad se cuka in je praktični hiperaktiven. Po treh urah sprehoda, pravi, da bi on še malo akcije.

Tukaj je bil še čisto mala mrcina (komaj 3 mesece je bil star) - pa je že laufal kot nor:

Za novejše slikice pa bo treba še malo počakati ;)

Danes začneva z resnejšimi treningi agilityja, trikcev in csegamogočega česar se bova spomnila. In pa seveda z intenzivnim hujšanjem (saj ima mali vsaj 1 kg preveč - pri pinču je to ogromno).

Pa še nekaj utrinkov z razstave: res je bilo super, nobenega stresa, vse je potekalo po planu, nobenih zapletov, ..... Bibi se je razstavljala, dobila CAC in RCACIB, vedno naju je nesla ring dresura - tudi to bo treba začet vadit ..... Pa še ena stvar z razstave. Superman mi je res naredil metuljčke v trebuščku ...... Komaj čakam Portorož !!!

Slatka mala Maja

2008-04-17T13:28:00.000-07:00

Danes smo večino svojega dneva preživeli ob nečem v čemer najbolj uživamo - seveda je to agility. Na povabilo Ivana smo se udležili predstavitve agilityja na eni izmed osnovnih šol v Postojni. In moram reči, da je bilo zelo lepo. Lepo je bilo gledati obrazke, ki z velikimi svetlimi učki strmijo v nas, ki zaploskajo vsakemu, se ob kakšnih spodrsljajih nasmejejo in se jim zdi to nekaj najbolj finega. Uživala sem, ko sem gledala, kako Maja teče s Pino - sicer z malo pomoči, ampak premagala je strah. Res je bilo fino. Fino zato, ker zadnje čase niti malo ne uživa v nastopih, sploh če so pred množico neznanih ljudi. Več kot očitnoje, da se tudi ona med psi čisto sprosti in postane prava mala "čveketulja". Moram priznati, da me zelo razveseljuje dejstvo, da obožuje pse, da si ne zna predstavljati življenja brez njih, in da kaže željo po delu z njimi. Žal mi je le, ker je bil fotoaparat na varnem v avtu in nisem nič slikala.

Tale vikend, ki nas čaka bo zeloooooo naporen in začne se že jutri. Kaj več pa napišem, ko se vrnemo iz Celja.

Vse najboljše Gra

2008-04-09T01:52:00.001-07:00

Pred natanko 4 leti je na svet prilezlo 6 prečudovitih črnih kepic - hrvaških ovčarjev. Kar hitro sem začela spremljati njihov razvoj in se navduševati nad idejo, da bi prišel eden od mladičkov tudi k meni. In čez kakšen mesec sem se tudi odločila, da bo tako. Seveda mami ni o tem vedela ničesar, saj sem vedela da jo bo slej ko prej sprejela.

Zrasla je v tipično predstavnico svoje pasme, polno energije, vedno pripravljeno delat in delat in delat, sto različnih stvari, 1000x prinesti žogico , frizbi, palico, ali pa samo listke, ki so ravno švignili mimo nje. Toda njena največja strast je agility, v tem resnično uživa, na ustnice se ji prikrade nasmešek, ki ga lahko vidim že od daleč, v učkih se prižge še 100 dodatnih iskric in potem gremoooooooooooooo. Kako že pravijo, ludo i nezaboravno.

Draga moja Gravžica, želim si da bi me še dolgo dolgooooo dolgo razveseljevala s svojimi norčijamo, norimi dogodivščinami, žarom v očeh in sploh že s svojo prisotnostjo. Pa hvala za ta 4 prečudovita leta.

Odločitev

2008-04-06T10:45:00.000-07:00

No končno je padla odločitev, da si tudi jaz ustvarim svoj blog in tako zdaj lahko tudi tukaj preberete nekaj o mojem vsakdanjiku. Upam, da bom kar ažurna.
Današnjo prelepo nedeljo smo izkoristili najprej za en ornk sprehod, potem pa še za en super trening. Končno smo tudi tukaj naredili en korak naprej in današnji trening je bil res super. Prvič sem uspela potrenirati tudi s Titom in moram reči, da sem kar navdušena. Res, da je ta mali norec zrasel do medium višine, ampak on je itak prepričan, da je vsaj tako velik kot Gucci. Vadbišče na Barju je pregrajeno z trakovi, ki so nekje na višini 20 in pa 50 cm - in ta mali pes je prepričan, da je vedno treba skočiti čez (niti pomislim ni da bi šel vmes, ali pa spodaj).
Začeli smo tudi z učenjem novih trikcev, Eni smo uspeli prepričati da se v poleg hodi po vseh 4 tacah - tako da nas v kratkem čaka tudi kakšen trening Raily obedienca. V glavnem idej nam nikoli ne zmanjka - včasih ima kakšen dan premalo ur.
Zelo sem bila vesela, ko me je poklicala ena deklica in sva rešile nekaj starejših nesporazumov. Tako je pač, če se o stvareh ne prepričaš sam, ampak slepo verjameš svojim "vzorom". Ampak vsak vzor enkrat izgubi svojo moč in pade. Tako se je zgodilo tudi meni. Oseba, ki mi je bila zelo dolgo vzor, je izgubila vse točke. Pa tako lep bi bil svet, če bi bili le vsi odkriti.