Goodbye 2012 Welcome 2013

2012 was a gigantic year for us. We really kicked our dogs into high gear. We started off the year with Kiah welcoming her first litter of seven puppies. We found fabulous homes for each and every pup and there's nothing I enjoy more then seeing their updates through out the year. Hush has remained with us and is a total blast to have in our home.

2012 was filled with some heart ache. April brought Kiah a devastating injury. Our plans of herding and flyball and showing for the summer were put on hold while she recovered from a severe tear of two muscles in her neck/shoulder area. We were not given good prognosis for this injury with out comes of life long limps thrown around and one of a few dogs who has ever injured these muscles so severely world wide.  A huge thank you to Dr Cook (Frontier Vet) and Dr. Pinto (WCVM) who helped with diagnosis and Kiah's recovery.  We lucked out however and Kiah's personality showed what a great dog she is as she was a stellar patient. Three months after her injury was she not only well healed she entered back into the show ring and by September she finished her Championship (CKC) handled by myself. September brought Kiah off of restrictions and she is back to playing and running.

2012 was a huge year for Bella. Bella showed off her stuff in the obedience and rally ring. Bella and I have been learning this stuff as we go.  A few lessons years ago for me, help from friends and thank you Youtube for helping me figure out some of the signs.  We took advantage of the drop in Rally practices at Paws N Train and then hit the trial ring. Between May and September Bella completed three titles- CD (Obedience Novice- CKC) RN (Rally Novice-CKC) and CRN (Rally Novice-CARO).  She achieved 5 high in trial/classes.  Bella also did her first set of Agility classes and absolutely loved it. We hope to do more in the future.

A thank you to all of our clients, friends and family who supported me and the kids with the dogs over the last year.

2013 brings exciting plans.  We're going to continue herding with Hush and hopefully will be ready for a trial come summer. We're finalizing plans for a litter of Standard Poodles with Bella for spring/summer 2013. Kiah is doing obedience/rally classes with Jillian and will hopefully get into the ring with her this year.

Krystl

Bella and some more agility videos

Bella is really enjoying agility. She does wish however her mom was a fair bit faster cuing her! It wears her right out- exercise mental and physical- what more can you ask for!

Thanks again to Aiden for keeping me company and videoing

Bella's Agility Adventure

Last month we started into Agility lessons with Bella.  She is absolutely loving it- (though that tire sorta made her think "why" for the first time this week). We have a few weeks left of classes and then a break until spring.

Here's a video of bella working the teeter.  This is the first the teeter has been high enough to really TIP she did really well with it.  (Ignore our bobble with the last jump- Teri and bag= treats the rest of the lesson so why not now? )

Thanks to my son Aiden for coming out and using his new playbook to get this video for me 

Kiah Finishes Her CKC Ch.

We've had a successful September!

Balgonie was our last planned show for the season- on sunday Kiah got Winners Bitch and Best of Opposite for 2 points finishing her CKC Championship.  Now we get to put those great little two letters in front of her name not just letters behind!

Kiah will retire from the show ring and go back to concentrating on performance stuff.  She's currently doing obedience lessons with my daughter Jillian and is getting back to working with the sheep.

Thank you to Judge Davida Brown from NZ for this wonderful end to our show season.

Back to Herding

Well after a huge delay with Kiah's injury this spring and then her recovery we are happily back herding.

Kiah would like to state she's a bit out of shape. 
Hush wants to say "Sheep ROCK"
Bella wants to know why she got left in the car :)

Hush showed some great interest n the sheep and had a great first introduction to them. Hush's litter mate Kacie was out as well and showed good interest in the sheep though she was not too sure how close she wanted to get today.

Kacie

 

Hush

 

 

We have the dog show next weekend- but plan to do herding weekly as long as the weather permits!

Saskatoon Show- A Success

We had a very sucessful weekend at the Saskatoon Kennel and Obedience Club show. 

Bella finished her CD title (Novice Obedience) with another High in Class.

Kiah gained 3 winners, 1 best of opposite and a total of 6 point.  She is now just 2 points off of finishing her Canadian Championship.

Overall a very good but busy weekend!

Girls go Swimming at the lake

We really haven't gotten to the lake much this year- which is sad since we live 5 whopping minutes from it.  This weekend we packed up the trailer and headed to Danielson provincial park. Bella has never gone swimming.  Usually she just has too  much hair for the amount of work it will take to dry her out and prevent matting.  But right now she's clipped down short so she got to swimming.  Hush has only ever waded into the water once (Other then the swimming pool) It was awesome to see how much both girls really enjoyed the water.  Kiah as always loves the water

 

Hopefully we'll get out to our lake near home a few times before it's too cold to go swimming!