Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Edge Update and States Winner :-)

Thought it was about time to have an update on Edge :-D or Mr Zee.... or just Zee, which is what he gets called more often than Edge.....
To tell the truth I probably shouldn't have named him before I got him, which is what happened. Because Cray-Zee suits him soooooooooooooooo much better :-P
He's 8.5mths old and he's gone from a chunky little puppy to a long legged, crazy running machine. I just LOVE his personality, he makes me laugh at least several times a day with his goofy antics and yet all the while he thinks he's the COOLEST dude around LOL. He's fitted into our house as though he's always belonged, so I feel really lucky and grateful that all my dogs get along and love hanging out with each other. He and Liryk are the BEST of friends and will spend most of the day fooling around and doing bog laps in the backyard.
I've started his running contact training :-D It's sooooooooooo much fun! I had a momentary thought of whether I'd do it all again, but truth be told even the grey haired moments are worth the adrenaline rush at the end :-) And second time around thankfully seems to be going alot smoother.
We've almost finished our puppy class with Silvia Trkman. It's been SUCH fun! And he's probably the most "aware" of his body out of all my dogs. Would definitely recommend it to anyone whether it's with a puppy or an older dog.
I've put together a video of where we are at so far in our training and just couldn't help myself with the choice of music as it's Edge's personality down to a tee :-P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX8KHSXnVZU&feature=g-upl&context=G28f9816AUAAAAAAAAAA

Last weekend we had the State Agility/Jumping Trial and I couldn't be happier with Liryk. She and I are running so well together as a team that I almost don't want to jet off to Belgium in two weeks, just incase I some how lose that insinc feeling with her in the time that I'm away. She won both heats in Novice Agility and Excellent Jumping to get her into the finals. Novice Agility had a pretty tricky weaver entry and unfortunately she missed it, but I couldn't have been happier with her run overall. Her contacts were great and she was flying. The Excellent Jumping Final.... I'm.... well... speechless. She was a wee superstar and WON!


Liryk's Finals run......