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Gershwin celebrates his birthday today.  We have been his friends for 3 years by now.

On this picture he is resting under the spruce tree after a long hike in the woods.  Since being a lazy boy sometimes, he just makes sure the female skyes don’t want to run some 5 more kilometers. The best way to send the message to his human friends is to pretend to be asleep.

Since we are sick of the snow and – 20 degrees C, there are coming some happy summer photos with the birthday boy. Enjoy!

Smilla (the blonde one) and Gershwin just resting

Just have forgotten to report about the last competition of Tunnel Cup that was held on 6th of September. We performed two mistake-free runs and placed as 7th in final result.

Table of gathered points

We had one successful day in a very nice ground near Tallinn, where a two days competition was held. I just entered Triny for one day with 2 courses, because I have no illusions about my dogs absent “duracell battery”. One run per day is enough and even more.

Here comes the video of the AG course, where we did make one mistake (because of stupid me) and exceeded the ideal time by 3 seconds. In conclusions, we placed 2nd in A1 mini class.

The other video is of our jumping course, where you can see that the little blackbird is already quite tired, but as a brave kid – she is always doing what asked .

When the judge – Ritva Herrala (Finland) was  concratulating us for the 2nd place, she mentioned that she has never seen a skye terrier on the agility ground .

One video by Dagris of our second mistakefree run with Triny:

http://toru.ee/view/45f94347e067

Triny has gained so much self confidence and lust for doing the job during our “summer project” on only competing and not training in agility. We have spent the training time just on obedience elements and tricks. Agility can be performed only on public events .

The last competition of the Tunnel Cup will be on 6th of September.

Here some more photos of Triny in Ülenurme on 01.08.2009

Photo by Jaanus Järva

Photo by Jaanus Järva

It was definitely our day.  As the sign of luck, one (and the only in Estonia) two months old pyrshep puppy pissed on my lap right in the morning . Agility course whitin the ideal time and one refusal brought us third place in A1 mini class. And in jumping we were on the fourth place with 3 seconds over the ideal time. The judge was Alar Meomuttel from Sweden.

I was so proud of my little black pearl – she was so speedy as a skye terrier can possibly be.  Or almost – there is always the way to go further . Also our scotty friends Kerttu and Miku had the lucky day and they are competing now in A2.

Photo by Andres Tummeleht

Photo by Jaana Salujõe

Photo by Jaana Salujõe

Photo by Dagris Punder

Photo by Jaana Salujõe

Photo by Jaana Salujõe

We participated the second tunnel competition on 26th of July. Triny performed one mistake free course and the other one with small refusal. Namely, she decided she has to discover the closed tunnel from outside for some seconds. But she was more eager to run this time.

Here some pictures about the short trip to the sea after the competition. All the four fellows were with us this time.

Black mermaid

Four shipwrecked

Gershwin

Just found some old photos  of the dog freestyle seminar we attended with Triny two years ago. The trainer was Kati Häkli from Finland.

Here we are

To keep Triny adapted to the competition situations, we attended one agility course last saturday in Tallinn. Weather was terribly hot, but fortunately our run was right at the beginning. I was seriously worried about Trinys feelings, because she is not comfortable on the course with the male judge watching at her.  The judge Perter Holmberg from Norway acted very professionally – we did almost forget he was also on the site. Triny was still veeeery slooow – we did exceed the ideal time by 16 sek, because she just walked there. However, we performed all the obstacles well and run a mistake-free course. I was happy as a world winner.

We spent a lovely day mostly in companion of our poodle friends Fidel and Piko, and their owners.

Photos by Ester Must