Border den's

Learning to swim!

Kaïa in front of the waterfall

Today is about learning to swim since she likes water.

Most people think dogs can swim just fine, but the truth is that you need to help them a bit to use all four legs. Otherwise, they could just be using their front legs. It is bad because:

  • They are only using 50% of their strength.
  • They will exhaust their strength faster and could drown.
  • The back of their body could act like an anchor and drag them to the bottom.

Always look at that your dog is swimming horizontally with four legs!

Agility at Ostende

This competition was just an excuse to let the dog enjoy the sea.

Running in circles confused me a lot…

Second Obedience grade 2. Not the best I’m afraid.

I don’t know, just a bad day. Too hot maybe?
I’m still happy, we lost some points here and there, but we only failed the scent discrimination (again…).
We scored 216.5/320. It’s less than the first Ob2.

Agility at Jamioulx

Today, first place at Jamioulx! Alone, because everyone else failed, in my opinion, a very difficult run.

Agility at Senzeille

Senzeille! Second place twice! She enjoys the intermediate category. Still no faultless run, but that will come at some point. The Jumping was so close to being faultless!

This time we got 2 signatures! Both with 1 fault. Now we need to have 2 faultless runs (one must be in agility).