Finally!!

I am so pleased with Indy. We finally managed to pass our Search and Rescue mock assessment. Only the National Assessment to pass in September.....!! I love working Indy so much that's sometimes a little bit unreal. Yukon is still a little bit of a Air Head. Nothing is really serious. He needs to grow up.

IT'S IN THE EYES

We are lazy

We are a little bit lazy due to the hot weather. The boys love the long grass and the fields to play in. They bonded much closer after we lost Amy. They are really brothers in crime. Tomorrow we go to Hatfield Forest for Search and Rescue Training. We have really nice walks every day and do some search training every day.It really seems that Agility is just for releasing some physical energy every now and than.

We are getting somewhere

I was so busy the last couple of weeks, that there was no time to update the Blog. First of all Indy's progress in the Search Dog work is great, but we are still not there for the final assessment. Yukon is a proper teenager, his mayor interest belongs to the opposite sex. Finally Indy and me made it in Grade 3 in Agility with our third jumping win.

Thanks to everybody who sent me emails and messages regards Amy. She will be buried together with Marlon in Germany where they did spent the happiest days of their lives, before Dangerous Dogs Acts and other negatives influences from human beings to their lives. They leave me very precious memories and two outstanding properly brought up Malinois behind. Indy and Yukon would not be the same without your input. You will always be with us.

Amy

It is with great sadness that I have to tell you, that my beloved American Stafford Terrier Amy (Simplicissimus Kamy) passed away, after a short battle with cancer. She was one of the most amazing dogs I ever lived with, even we were not the best of friends often. She was very affectioned towards people and her pack siblings, but everybody outside of our pack was always a little in danger to be beaten up. She never started an argument, but was always up for finishing one. I am pretty sure she left a big paw print on many hearts. Amy was an amazing working dog. She was a qualified Schutzhund, she competed in Agility, was a Search and Rescue Dog in Germany and took part in a project as a Volunteer Drug Sniffer Dog in Germany. Everything she done in her live, she done it fast and furious. Last, but not least she was in charge of my dog pack and did teach all new editions to the pack the manners and the naughty things for a good dog live.
The boys, Richard and me will miss you.

Nice Weekend

We did go to Colchester Agility Show on Saturday and I did know straight away I would not go back on Sunday. Indy done a fabulous Agility round in only 27,4 seconds ...... but seems to have missed the up touch point on the dog walk. So again another nearly. We had a really lazy Sunday, I mean we done absolutely nothing. Today we did go to Search Dog Training, and I am really impressed with both my boys. Indy was really good today. He did work really well. He checked out all side tracks and did a really good alert. He only had one little down fall, I did not like to do a full refind on a Misper sitting under a tarpaulin... don't blame him. Yukon is changed today from his training aid to the real Bringsel. He did go very well, but he still drops it before being close to me with his alert. We need to work on this indoors a little bit